Deyonne Bryant Deyonne Bryant is the Samuel Valentine Cole Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Her research interests include fiction writing, African American literature, and U.S. multiethnic literature. email: dbryant@wheatonma.edu website: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/DeyonneBryant.html Beverly Lyon Clark Beverly Lyon Clark is a professor of English and women's studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Her research interests include the relationship between feminist theory and criticism of children's literature and the positioning of children's literature within the academy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. email: bclark@wheatoncollege.edu website: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/BeverlyLyonClark.html Minjie Chen Minjie Chen is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include Chinese children's and young adult literature, folktales, multiculturalism in American children's literature, and representation of Chinese culture in U.S. children's books. email: mchen6@illinois.edu website: http://people,lis.edu/~mchen6/ Cindy Christiansen Cindy L. Christiansen is an associate professor of health policy and management at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research interests include statistical models for health policy, Bayesian methods, hierarchical modeling, and health care provider profiling. email: cindylc@bu.edu website: http://sph.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_sphdir&id=239&Itemid=340&INDEX=2442 Karen Coats Karen Coats is an associate professor of English at Illinois State University. Her research interests include children's and young adult literature and literary and cultural theory. email: kscoat2@ilstu.edu website: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/kscoat2/ Wendy Doniger Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where she is also a member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College. Her research interests include Hinduism and mythology. email: don8@midway.uchicago.edu website: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/doniger.shtml Bonnie Glass-Coffin Bonnie Glass-Coffin is a Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. Her research interests include historical transformations and contemporary dynamics in Peruvian shamanism, as well as asset based community development. email: glasscob@cc.usu.edu website: http://www.usu.edu/anthro/faculty.html#glass-coffint Betsy Hearne Betsy Hearne is a professor emerita at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include the literary, artistic, and cultural analysis of children's books; folklore and storytelling; publishing history of juvenile literature; and writing fiction and poetry for youth. email: ehearne@illinois.edu website: http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~ehearne/ Joanna Hearne Joanna Hearne is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she teaches and writes on topics in film studies, Native American studies, and folklore. Her research interests include Native American film and video, early cinema, animation, documentary and Western film genres, and issues of race and ethnicity in film history. email: HearneJ@Missouri.edu website: http://www.missouri.edu/~hearnej/ Ann Hendricks Ann Hendricks is an associate professor of health policy and management at Boston University. Her research interests include Medicare, quality of health care and managed care programs, and health care costs and insurance. email: ann.hendricks@med.va.gov website: http://206.173.82.254/sites/VA%20Boston%20Health%20Care%20System/Investigator%20 Biographies/HENDRICKS,%20ANN%20M.htm Rania Huntington Rania Huntington a visiting associate professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her research interests include Ming and Qing dynasty fiction, particularly literature of the supernatural and the classical language anecdote. email: hntngtn@illinois.edu website: http://www.ealc.uiuc.edu/ealc/people/faculty/huntington.htm Christine Jenkins Christine Jenkins is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a joint appointment in gender and women's Studies. Her research interests include the history of children's and young adult literature and librarianship; representations of minority-status groups in youth literature; and intellectual freedom. email: cajenkin@illinois.edu website: http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~cajenkin/ Kimberly J. Lau Kimberly J. Lau is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research interests include feminist theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, folklore, and narrative. email: lau@ucsc.edu website: http://americanstudies.ucsc.edu/lau.html Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is a professor of history and director of the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program at Iowa State University. Her research interests include U.S. agricultural and rural history, history of childhood and the family, and history of the American West. email: prinkeh@iastate.edu website: http://www.history.iastate.edu/riney-kehrberg.shtml Claudia Quintero-Ulloa Claudia Quintero Ulloa is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include media, cultural, and women's studies with an analytical framework grounded in folklore, history, linguistic anthropology, and ethnographic and interpretive methods such as storytelling and narrative. email: uquinter@illinois.edu Maria Tatar Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Language and Literature at Harvard University. Her research interests include Weimar Germany, German romanticism, folklore, children's literature, and cultural studies. email: tatar@fas.harvard.edu website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/TatarPage.htm Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is a doctoral candidate in the joint program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include secondary English teacher education and professional development; history and criticism of literature for children and young adults; and African American and African Diaspora literature, culture, and rhetoric. email: ebonyt@umich.edu website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ebonyelizabeththomas Roberta Seelinger Trites Roberta Seelinger Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University. Her research interests include feminist and narrative theory in children's and adolescent literature. email: seeling@ilstu.edu website: http://www.english.ilstu.edu/trites/index.htm Ofelia Zepeda Ofelia Zepeda is Regents Professor of Linguistics and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a MacArthur Fellow. Her research interests include Tohono O'odham linguistics, language teaching, Indigenous language maintenance and revitalization, and Native American poetry and literature. email: ofelia@email.arizona.edu website: http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/linguistics/OfeliaZepeda/ and http://web.arizona.edu/~aisp/zepeda.htm             © 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.