Lucinda H. MacKethan
Lucinda
H. MacKethan, alumni distinguished professor of
English at North Carolina State University, teaches
courses in American literature, African-American
literature, and Southern writers and serves as coordinator
of the teacher-certification program in English.
A director of several National Endowment for the
Humanities summer institutes for high school and
college teachers, she has also worked with the National
Humanities Center to implement in-service enrichment
programs for high school faculty. Her publications
include Daughters of Time: Creating Woman's
Voice in Southern Story. Athens:
University of Georgia Press (1990), The
Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern
Literature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, (1980),
with James A. Miller, A Guide to Scribbling
Women. A Multi-Media Presentation of
American Women's Short Stories.
Massachusetts: Public Media Foundation (1997), Mark
Twain's Mother: Gender, Slavery, and the
Study of Southern Literature. (in progress),
Anya Seton: A Cultural Biography:
A study of the life, novels, and influence of Anya
Seton. (in progress), and recent articles on Flannery
O'Connor, Maya Angelou, gender in plantation fiction,
and Toni Morrison. Through the NCSU
extension program and the North Carolina Humanities
Council Speakers' Bureau, she gives talks throughout
the state on race and gender in American literature.
James
A. Miller
James
A. Miller, professor of English and American Studies,
and director of the Africana Studies Program, George
Washington University, Washington D.C., teaches courses
on African-American and American literature.
He has directed five NEH summer seminars on African-American
literature for school teachers. His publications
include Introduction and Text, Harlem: The Vision
of Morgan and Marvin Smith. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, (1997), with Lucinda H. MacKethan,
A Guide to Scribbling Women. A Multi-Media Presentation
of American Women's Short Stories. Massachusetts:
The Public Media Foundation (1997), Editor, Approaches
to Teaching Wright's Native Son. New York:
Modern Languages Association, (1997), Editor
(with Jerry G. Watts), The Crisis of the Negro
Intellectual Revisited (in progress), The
Moment in Scottsboro (in progress); and articles
on black cinema, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and
politically engaged literature; and essays and reviews
in The Boston Globe, The Village
Voice Literary Supplement, Z Magazine, and The
Nation.
Barbara C. Ewell
Professor Ewell’s publications include a monograph
on Kate Chopin (Ungar 1985) and several co-edited
collections on southern literature, including Voices
of the American South (Longman 2004), Southern
Local Color: Stories of Race and Gender (Georgia
U P 2002), and Louisiana Women Writers: New
Critical Essays and a Comprehensive Bibliography
(Louisiana State U P 1992). She has also published
essays on topics ranging from feminist and online
pedagogy to Renaissance poetry and Louisiana writers.
Josephine
Donovan
Josephine Donovan is the author of Sarah Orne
Jewett (1980; revised edition, Cybereditions,
2001); New England Local Color Literature
(1983); Feminist Theory (3rd ed.,2000),
and other books. Her articles on Jewett and other
writers have appeared in American Literature,
Signs, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
and other journals. Professor Donovan lives on the
New England seacoast near Jewett's home.
Faye
Gage
Faye Gage is Director of The Connecticut Writing
Project which is an affiliate of the National Writing
Project/Bay Area Writing Project at Fairfield University.
From 1993-2001 she was Coordinator of Reading, Language
Arts and English in the Greenwich Public Schools.
Faye Gage was one of three high school teachers
advising on the curriculum content of the Scribbling
Women Multi-Media Education Kit and web site.
Sharon M. Harris
Professor Harris is the author and editor of numerous
books, including Executing Race: Early American
Women’s Narratives of Race, Class, and the
Law (Ohio State, 2005); Blue Pencils, Hidden
Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830-1900
(Northeastern UP, 2004); and Women’s Early
American Historical Narratives (Penguin, 2003).
She was also the founding president of the Society
for the Study of American Women Writers. Professor
Harris is currently working on a biography, Dr.
Mary E. Walker: An American Radical.
Joan D. Hedrick
Professor Hedrick’s publications include Harriet
Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994. (She received a Pulitzer Prize for
this biography); Solitary Comrade: Jack London
and His Work (Chapel Hill, NC: The University
of North Carolina Press, 1982);”Parlor Literature:
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Question of ‘Great
Women Artists’” Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 17 (Winter 1992)
and “From Perfection to Suffering: The Religious
Experience of Harriet Beecher Stowe,” Women’s
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 19 (Winter
1991)
Gerald H. Herman
Gerald H. Herman is Assistant Professor of History
and Education, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies, and Special Assistant to the University
Counsel at Northeastern University. He teaches undergraduate
courses in cultural history, the history of modern
warfare, histories of Science and technology, and
history and film. On the graduate level, he teaches
a seminar on the Holocaust, and a media and history
production course in the department’s Public
History program. He was a founding member both of
the Historians Film Committee and of the National
Council on Public History. His recent publications
include “Creating the Twenty-first Century
‘Historian For All Seasons’” (The
Public Historian, Summer, 2003), Critical
Thinking Skills Using Primary Sources in World History
(2004), Critical Thinking Skills Using Primary
Sources in U. S. History (2000), and new editions
of U. S. History on the Screen: Teacher’s
Resource Book on film and Video (2002) and
World History on the Screen: Teachers Resource
Book on film and Video (2003). He has written
and produced award winning television, radio, and
CD ROM based historical programs. Since 1988, he
has served as Film and Electronic Media Reviews
Editor for The Public Historian.
Kathleen Kelly
Kathleen Kelly holds a joint appointment in the
Department of English and the School of Education
at Northeastern University . She teaches, researches,
and publishes in medieval literature. Her current
research project: a book on Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte
Darthur" titled Malory's Desire for History and
the History of Desire. In addition, Professor
Kelly is Director of the Writing Programs at Northeastern
University and works with the School of Education
in the area of teacher preparation.
Pamela Glenn Menke
Professor Menke's publications include: Southern Local Color: Stories of
Region, Race, and Gender. Athens and London: The University
of Georgia Press. "Behind the White Veil': Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Creole Color,
and The Goodness of St. Rocque" in Songs of the Reconstructing
South: Building Literary Louisiana , 1865-1945. Ed. Suzanne D. Green and
Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. "Black cat bone and snake
wisdom": New Orleans' Hoodoo, Haitian Voodoo, and Rereading Hurston's Their
Eyes Were Watching God" in Songs of the South: Writing Contemporary
Louisiana.
Ed.and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Suzanne D. Green
Peggy
O'Brien
Dr. O’Brien oversees several of CPB’s
high priority initiatives including the development
of children’s educational programming and
the expansion of local services that build on the
broadcast to teach young viewers and their parents.
She has returned to CPB from Cable in the Classroom,
the cable industry’s education foundation.
In her earlier tenure at CPB, from 1994-2000, she
was Vice President of Education and was the first
director of Ready to Learn, a continuing
coalition of public television stations and producers,
preschool teachers, national service organizations
and publishers of children’s books. Earlier
she was Head of Education for the Folger Shakespeare
Library, where she founded and directed the Library’s
Teaching Shakespeare Institute.
Ruthe T. Sheffey
Ruthe T. Sheffey is Professor of English at Morgan
State University. She is the author of Trajectory:
Fueling the Future and Preserving the African-American
Literary Past – Essays in Criticism (1962-1986).
Morgan State University Press, Baltimore, Maryland,
1989; Impressions in Asphalt, Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1969 – Co-editor Mrs. Eugenia Collier;
and Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Zora Neale
Hurston Symposium Papers, Morgan State University
Press, 1982.
Emily
Toth
Emily Toth is Professor of English and Women’s
Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the
author of Unveiling Kate Chopin, Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1999; Kate Chopin’s
Private Papers (edition, with Per Seyersted and
Cheyenne Bonnell). Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1998; Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice
for Women in Academia, Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania, 1997; and Kate Chopin (biography).
New York: William Morrow, 1990; London: Random Century,
1991.
Kari Winter
Professor Winter’s teaching and research address
many areas of American literature and history from
the eighteenth century to the present. She is the
author of two books about slave narratives as well
as numerous articles regarding African American
studies, contemporary Indian literature, Barbadian
history, feminist film theory, and other topics.
Susan
Millar Williams
Susan Millar Williams is the author
of A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives
of Julia Peterkin, published by the University
of Georgia Press in 1997, which won the Julia Cherry
Spruill Prize, awarded by the Southern Association
of Women Historians for the best work published
in Southern women's history. She has written for
the Nation and the Southern Review,
and is currently at work on a book about the great
Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886.
Professor Williams earned a Ph.D. in English from
Louisiana State University and currently teaches
English at Trident Technical College in Charleston,
South Carolina.
