MATTHEW BEEDHAM is Visiting Professor at Chonnam National University,
in Kwanju, Republic of Korea. His research interests are in cultural theory, espe-
cially minority discourse. He has previously won the Rabbi Isserman Award for
work on international and interracial relations, and published articles on the transla-
tion of Chinese logographs and Chinese Canadian literature. He is presently prepar-
ing the entry for Jacques Derrida in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

JACQUELINE DOYLE is Associate Professor of English at California State
University, Hayward. She has published journal articles on women writers from
multicultural backgrounds.

JUNE DWYER is Professor of English and Chair of the department at Manhat-
tan College in New York City. She has written two books, Jane Austen and John
Masefield, articles on women and patriotism for Studies in Short Fiction, Modern
Language Studies and The Faulkner Journal, and articles on immigration for Pro-
teus and MELUS. She is working on a book called Greenhorns, Greenbacks, and
the Green Land: Immigrants and the Literature of the American Dream.

CARMEN FAYMONVILLE is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
and Composition at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville. She has published
in the areas of World Literature, Emigrant and Immigrant Literature, Postcolonial
Studies, and Writing Pedagogy.

MARTIN JAPTOK received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis,
where his dissertation concerned African American and Jewish American coming-
of-age stories and ethnic nationalism. He has published articles in African Ameri-
can Review, The Southern Literary Journal and in several anthologies. An article is
forthcoming in MELUS. Professor Japtok teaches at West Virginia State College
and is working on an essay collection entitled Postcolonial Perspectives on Women
Writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa.

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