Our Contributors


DIANE BENJAMIN holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. She is an associate professor at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, where she currently serves as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Benjamin taught the course under discussion during her tenure at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville.

ANN M. CIASULLO received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky in 2002. She teaches at the University of Oregon and has published articles in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature and Feminist Studies.
DEBORAH DAVIDSON is a feminist teacher and mother who is completing her Ph.D. in sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Broadly speaking, her areas of academic research are two: health and illness and pedagogy. In midlife, she is "finally learning to embrace contradiction."

LEE WOODHAM DIGIOVANNI is an elementary educator at Peoples Elementary School in Fayetteville, Georgia. Her research interests focus on the application of multicultural and feminist understandings to education. She is currently working on her Ed.D. in curriculum studies from Georgia Southern University.

JUANITA JOHNSON-BAILEY is an associate professor at the University of Georgia in the Department of Adult Education and the women's studies program. Her book, Sistahs in College: Making a Way Out of No Way, received the Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in Continuing Higher Education. She is also the coeditor of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives, a collection of constructed narratives.

DAVID M. JONES is a member of the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. His essay "'Women's Lib,' Gender Theory, and the Politics of Home: How I Became a Black Male Feminist" appeared in Feminist Teacher 13.3.

DEBRA LANGAN is an assistant professor of sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her recent research involves discourse analyses of violence against women, intimacy, and critical pedagogy. Outside cademe, Langan has worked as a probation officer, a correctional services case worker, and a consultant on community initiatives to address violence against women.

MING-YEH LEE is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her areas of specialization are race and gender. She has written and lectured nationally and internationally on power and positionality in research and teaching.

DELORES D. LISTON is an associate professor of curriculum and foundations at Georgia Southern University. Her research and teaching interests focus on the application of philosophical, ethical, and feminist understandings to education. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She recently authored a book, Joy as a Metaphor of Convergence: A Phenomenological and Aesthetic Investigation of Social and Educational Change.

LINDA SEIDEL teaches in women's and gender studies and English at Truman State University. She has previously provided book reviews for Feminist Teacher and has pedagogical interests in interdisciplinary studies, Victorian studies, gender studies, postcolonial literature, and economics.