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Nadia Mahjouri - Techno-Maternity: Rethinking the Possibilities of Reproductive Technologies
Nadia Mahjouri is currently a PhD candidate in the School of
Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Her
doctoral thesis addresses 'hybrid' or 'multiracial' identity
politics and investigates the disjunctions between racial, national
and diasporic identification. Further, she is also writing on
corporeal feminism and the critique of science and technology. She is
currently teaching Bioethics at the University of Tasmania.
nmahjour [at] utas.edu.au
Elizabeth Johnston
Elizabeth Johnston is currently a West Virginia University PhD student working on her dissertation, “Rival Fictions: Eighteenth-century Domestic Ideology and the Trope of Female Competition,” under the direction of Dr. Robert Markley. She also teaches as an adjunct instructor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.
johnston [at] rochester.rr.com
Nina Cichocki
Nina Cichocki is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History
at SUNY Buffalo, specializing in Islamic Culture. She has written her dissertation
on the life story of a Turkish Bath, the Cemberlitas Hamam in Istanbul. Her
primary interests are in Ottoman Architectural History and Heritage Politics
in Turkey, but she also does research on contemporary visual culture in Iran.
nc36 [at] buffalo.edu
Lan Dong
Lan Dong is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include: representations
of Asians and Asian Americans in literature and films, immigrant women’s
writing, premodern Chinese culture, translation, and east-west literary and
cultural relations. She has written and presented papers on Chinese cinema,
Asian American literature and films, Chinese women, and disciplinary crossovers.
She is now writing her dissertation on the woman warrior Mulan, historically
grounded in premodern Chinese culture and represented in contemporary American
literature and cinema.
ldong [at] complit.umass.edu
Heather Tirado Gilligan
Heather Tirado Gilligan recently completed her Ph.D. in English. She is currently
a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
htg03 [at] yahoo.com
Amy
Leask
Amy Leask is a freelance writer and educator from Cambridge, Ontario. She
completed a Master’s degree in Philosophy at McMaster University, with
thesis work on the ethics of Simone de Beauvoir. In addition to teaching
literature courses in her community, Amy enjoys writing for all age groups,
and firmly believes that humour is the key to change and understanding.
aeleask [at] hotmail.com
Candis Steenbergen & Robyn Diner
Candis Steenbergen is a PhD Candidate in Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies
in Society & Culture at Concordia University in Montreal, where she also teaches
courses on “Feminist Generations,” “Controversies in Feminism,” and “Deviant
Bodies” at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Interested in the spaces where feminisms
lurk, her research examines the interplay between and influences of feminisms,
histories, and popular culture on the complicated and often paradoxical politics
of women of her “generation.” She was guest editor for Canadian Woman Studies’/Les
Cahiers des Femmes special issue on young feminisms (Winter/Spring 2001), and
her work has appeared in Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms (2001, Sumach
Press) and Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body and Identity (2004,
Peter Lang USA).
candis.steenbergen [at] sympatico.ca
Robyn Diner is a PhD candidate in Communication at Concordia University in Montreal,
Quebec. She is also part-time faculty at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for
Women's Studies at Concordia where she teaches “Popular Culture and Feminist
Theory” among other courses. Her dissertation, "Bodies of Irony: Irony, the
Unruly Body, Feminist Performance" features insights into an array of witty,
carnivalesque, and grotesque pro-feminist performance practices by the likes
of Karen Finley, Courtney Love, and Scarlot Harlot. She has presented a variety
of papers stemming from her dissertation at diverse conferences throughout
North America. Her published work also appears in journals such as Canadian
Women’s Studies/Les Cahiers des Femmes and thirdspace (see:
“Not-So-Exotic-Indians:
Irony, Identity and Memory in Spiderwoman's
Spectacles” thirdspace 1/2 (March 2002).)
robynd [at] sympatico.ca |
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