Our Contributors

COURTNEY BAILEY is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Allegheny College. She has a PhD in Communication & Culture from Indiana University and a BSC in Communication Studies from Ohio University. Her primary areas of interest include rhetoric, media and cultural studies, feminism, and visual culture, especially in regards to popular representations of gender, race, and sexuality.

ALYSON BARDSLEY is an assistant professor of English and women's studies at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. She has also taught in the English PhD and Women's Studies certificate programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. She publishes work primarily on British Romantic writers.

BECKY BECKER is an associate professor of theatre at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where she teaches acting, directing, playwriting, solo performance, and history & literature of the theatre. Her areas of interest include cross-cultural theatre, activist theatre, performance, and directing. Some of her recent directing credits include: The Laramie Project, Lysistrata, Collected Lives: Memories in Motion (a devised work), Psycho Beach Party, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her published work can be found in American Drama, Theatre Journal, and Feminist Teacher.

DAVIDA BLOOM is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the State University of New York College at Brockport. She teaches Introduction to Theatre, History of Theatre, Contemporary Women Playwrights, and Improvisational Theatre. She also acts and directs in Rochester area theatres. She has had works published in Youth Theatre Journal, The Journal of Religion and Theatre, State of the Arts, and Academic Exchange Quarterly. Her article, "Using Commercial Voice-Over Copy in Acting Classes," will be published in The Players Journal. She is currently involved in a long-term study examining gender role stereotyping in theatre for young audiences. Her master's thesis examined the use of feminist dramatic criticism on plays written for children audiences, and her dissertation research looked at the depiction of rape in contemporary American drama. She is a single mother and is very grateful to have a wonderful sixteen-year-old son who always makes her laugh and still hugs her in public.

RHONDA BROCK-SERVAIS teaches children's and young adult literature in the department of English at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

ADRIANE BROWN is a graduate student at Minnesota State University. She plans to complete her master's degree this spring and continue her studies for a PhD in women's studies.

SHONDRAH TARREZZ NASH is an assistant professor of sociology at Morehead State University. She received her PhD from The University of Kentucky and was the first postdoctoral fellow for the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on women and intimate partner violence, particularly within the context of race and religious coping.

SHERROW O. PINDER is an assistant professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

LAURA RATTNER is a PhD student at The Pennsylvania State University.

LAURA VAN ASSENDELFT received her PhD in political science from Emory University in 1994. She is an associate professor at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, where she currently serves as chair of the Department of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests focus on American government and women in politics. Most recently she co-authored Women, Politics, and American Society (4th Edition).

AARONETTE M. WHITE is a feminist, social-personality psychologist, and an assistant professor of women's studies, African American studies, and psychology at The Pennsylvania State University.