Johnnella Butler is Provost at Spelman College. She is the author of Black Studies—Pedagogy and Revolution and the editor or co-editor of several volumes on pedagogy, multiculturalism and ethnic studies, including Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies (SUNY 1991) and Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (Washington 2001).
jebutler@spelman.edu

Michele Elam is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor at Stanford University. She holds a joint position in the Department of English and at the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and is the author of Work, Race and Desire in American Literature, 1869-1930 (Cambridge UP, 2003) and Mixtries: Mixed Race in the New Millennium (Stanford University Press, 2007).
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AAAS/sub_pages/from_director/from_director.html
melam@stanford.edu

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and English and the Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. She is the editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995), and co-editor, with Rudolph Byrd, of Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana, 2001). Her most recent publications include a volume, co-edited with Johnnetta Cole, entitled Gender Talk : The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities (One World/Ballantine, 2003).
bsheftall@aol.com

Amie Macdonald is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College/City University of New York. Her research, scholarship, and teaching are focused on issues of racial and gender justice in higher education. She is the co-editor (with Susan Sánchez-Casal) of 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (NY: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2002).

amacdona@jjay.cuny.edu

Kenneth McClane is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of African American Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of such volumes of poetry and prose as Take Five: Collected Poems 1971-1986 and Walls: Essays 1985-90.

kam6@cornell.edu

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke, 2003), and co-editor of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997) and Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana, 1991).
http://womens-studies.syr.edu/C_Mohanty.htm
ctmohant@syr.edu

Paula M. L. Moya is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. She is the author of Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (California 2002), and co-editor, with Michael Hames-García, of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (California 2000).
http://www.stanford.edu/~pmoya/
pmoya@stanford.edu

John Su is Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature at Marquette University. He is the author of Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel (Cambridge 2005).
http://www.marquette.edu/english/faculty/su.shtml
John.Su@Marquette.edu