Our Contributors

CHRIS BELL is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois–Chicago. He is the current president of the Women's Caucus of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

JILL A. CERMELE is an assistant professor of psychology and an affiliated factuly member of the women's studies program at Drew University. Her research interests include gender violence and women's reistance and the social construction of mental illness. She is a feminist psychotherapist in a non-profit practice specializing in trauma.

SALLY CHANDLER is an assistant professor of English at Kean University. Her enduring interest in how we use stories to (re)create our identities defines her areas of research: interpersonal dynamics in the classroom and in writing groups; adult development; and patterns of talk. Her on-going development as a feminist thinker is deeply connected to reflective talk and writing.

MARIE T. FARR has served as the Founding Director of the Women's Studies Program, Acting Chair of the Department of Communication, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Chair of English at East Carolina University. Her presentations, articles, and reviews focus on women's literature and women's issues. Most recently she has published a chapter on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and an article on the difficulty of teaching college students about sexuality and sexual orientation.

AMY SPANGLER GERALD received her Ph.D. in English and a graduate certificate in women's studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was named the English Department's outstanding teaching assistant. Her scholarship centers on feminist pedagogy and composition theory/practice and appears in JAC, Composition Studies, and the collection The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy. Amy teaches part-time while raising fouryear- old Abby and one-year-old Joshua.

SUSAN LOGSDON-CONRADSEN is a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor of Psychology at Berry College in Georgia.

KATHLEEN MCEVOY is an assistant professor of English at Washington and Jefferson College as well as an affiliated member of the college's Gender and Women's Studies Program. She completed a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition as well as a graduate certificate in women's studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002.

KRISTIN ROBBINS is an adjunct instructor in the Women's Studies department at Florida Atlantic University where she is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Comparative Studies program. Her areas of concentration and interest are gender roles and issues in a cross-cultural context, social learning dynamics in the classroom, and transnational families. She has taught courses in the areas of Women of the Third World; Women, Violence, and Resistance; in addition to teaching several years in the field of English as an Additional Language.

BRENDA R. WEBER is a member of the Gender Studies faculty at Indiana University–Bloomington. She previously directed the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.

JILL WEISNER is an assistant professor of education at Willamette University. Her interests are in collaborative research and professional development though action research and life writing.

PAMELA WHITFIELD received her Ph.D. in English and graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Pam now resides in Rochester, MN, where she works for the area Girl Scout Council, teaches college equine science courses, and changes a lot of diapers.