BETH BERILA is director and assistant professor of Women's Studies at St. Cloud State University. Her work focuses on the political and performative practices of cultural activism and community-based arts that work toward social change. Her article, "Toxic Bodies? ACT UP's Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation" appears in the anthology New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, edited by Rachel Stein (Rutgers University Press, 2004).

JEAN KELLER is an associate professor of Philosophy and former director of Gender and Women's Studies at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. Co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, Spring 2005), her writing focuses on questions in feminist ethics, discourse ethics, and feminist pedagogy. CAMILLA KRONE is an associate professor of French and chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. She holds undergraduate and PhD minors in Women's Studies and has taught in the CSB/SJU Gender and Women's Studies program since its inception. Her research and teaching areas include gendered expression in literature by men and women. She has a special interest in French/Francophone women writers.

JASON LAKER is Dean of Campus Life at Saint John's University. He is also an adjunct instructor at Saint John's and at St. Cloud State University, teaching courses on gender, race, and social justice issues. He has produced four video documentaries about men and masculinity and regularly presents sessions on the subject at professional associations and on college campuses. OZZIE MAYERS is a professor of English and also teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies program at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. He directed a major FIPSE grant on gender and the curriculum from 1984–87. Although his area of expertise is nineteenth-century American literature, he has published articles on gender and pedagogy, American literature and the canon, teaching Asian literature in the North American classroom, and personal essays.

SYLVIA M. DESANTIS is a multimedia instructional designer and instructor at The Pennsylvania State University.

ALICE GINSBERG is the author (with Joan Shapiro and Shirley Brown) of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement. She also reviews for the Teachers
College Record.

JENNIFER HASTINGS is a graduate student studying feminist research and teaching at The Pennsylvania State University.

JACKIE KIRK is a research associate at the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster. She is particularly interested in the lives of women teachers, and in using participatory, arts-based and reflective methodologies for exploring women's and girls' experiences in schools. She has extensive experience of teacher training and professional development projects for teachers—and especially women teachers— particularly in conflict-affected situations such as Afghanistan. MONICA MAK is a PhD candidate in McGill University's Graduate Program in Communications. She has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship for her research on digital technology in independent cinema. As a documentary filmmaker, she has collaborated with Jackie Kirk on educational videos focused on women teachers' peacebuilding approaches, on "tween" girls' leadership skills achieved through participatory activities, and on teaching methodologies and strategies in Afghanistan.

ELISHA J . NIXON - COBB graduated from The Pennsylvania State University and is presently an assistant professor at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. She has published several articles on critical thinking and is presently coauthoring a book entitled Teaching Troubles: Classroom Strategies for Confronting Power and Privilege. The book provides experiences and hands-on activities that help students and instructors deal with the anger, apathy, and guilt that arise when discussions focus on racism and other power dynamics.

ANNIS PRATT developed her feminist experiential teaching method at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1971–90, where she writes that she "gradually weaned myself from the professor-centered pedagogy which was the norm there to an entirely student-centered method." Since retirement she has published Dancing with Goddesses: Achetypes, Poetry and Empowerment (Indiana University Press, 1994) and four pedagogical articles ("Women's Studies and Me: Empowerment and Activism" in the Fall/Winter 1999 Women's Studies Quarterly; a chapter in Florence Howe's 2000 Feminist Press edition of The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers; "Twenty years to the Lighthouse, a Teaching
Voyage," a chapter in an MLA Approaches to Teaching volume which came out in 2001; and the lead article in the Fall/Winter 2002 issue of Women's Studies Quarterly on "Then and Now in Women's Studies: My Pedagogical Bequest."

JANE THINSONSHOPE is an associate professor of sociology at Goucher College. She teaches courses in sociology and women's studies on gender, inequality, health and illness, and domestic violence. Her research interests explore intersections of gender, class, and race/ethnicity among rural black women in post-apartheid South Africa.