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Lynda L. Hinkle, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, Assistant Editor-in-Chief
Heather McIntosh, Co Editor-in-Chief
Irena Pochop, Marketing Editor, Web Administrator
Debbie Olson, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Jolie Mandelbaum, Manuscript Editor
Julie Still, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Katherine Verhagen Rodis, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Jessica Gildersleeve, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Katie Elson Anderson, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Courtney McDermott, Assistant Manuscript Editor
Our Editorial Board
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Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic is a Reference Librarian and the Web Administrator at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Her books include The Plagiarism Plague: A Resource Guide and CD-ROM Tutorial for Educators and Librarians (Neal-Schuman, 2004), Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Libarians and Educators (Neal-Schuman, 2009). She has also published in various refereed journals and library and information science publications. Cvetkovic is a PhD student in the Children and Childhood Studies program at Rutgers University.
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Alison Edwards is a high school teacher in Newfoundland, Canada. She has a Masters in Education: Teaching and Learning: Society, Media and Culture from Memorial University of Newfoundland. In her teaching she focuses on the Holocaust and Human Rights, as part of the Newfoundland Center for the Asper Human Rights and the Holocaust Program and as teacher sponsor for the Youth Action Committee. Alison was the youngest Newfoundland delegate to attend the 1995 UN Conference on Womyn and the NGO forum of Womyn in Beijing, China. Since then, she has been involved in many feminist communities including we have brains . In the free time she can muster with a husband, young son and cat and a knitting habit around, Alison is writing two books; a work of children’s literature and a book of Newfoundland history.
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April Gentry holds a PhD from Southern Illinois University in 19th-century American literature as well as an MA in American literature from Ohio University, where she also earned a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies. Her published and presented work examines such diverse topics as Emily Dickinson’s sea poems, pedagogy and first-year students, contemporary Haitian women’s writing, all things Herman Melville, and contemporary pop culture representation of women athletes. She also surfs, writes, plays soccer, and obsesses about her garden (not necessarily in that order). She is currently associate professor and chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at Savannah State University.
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Lynda L. Hinkle is an attorney specializing in family and education law at the Law Office of Lynda L. Hinkle in Southern New Jersey. She holds a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, an MA in English from Rutgers University, and an MST from Rowan University in Secondary Education. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences on literature, education and law. In addition to her work in her law firm, Lynda is an advocate for abused children and domestic violence victims.
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Heather McIntosh holds a Ph.D. in mass communications from the Pennsylvania State University. Her current research interests focus on women and documentary, gender and media, and new media production. In her free time she enjoys digital photography, hiking, and road trips.
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Jolie Mandelbaum has her Bachelor’s in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and her MFA from American University. Her research interests include contemporary women’s literature and autobiography, especially writings about mental illness and sex work, monsters and queer and feminist literary theory. Her hobbies include writing, boxing, crochet and generally being a menace. She would like to wish a fond hello to everyone who got here by googling her.
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Debbie Olson is a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include West African film, images of African/African American children in film, popular media, and children’s culture, Video game images, and Hollywood film. She has contributed to such collections as The African American Biography Project (2008), Writing African American Women (2006), the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (2006), and many others. Her articles can be found in such collections as The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV as Film and History (2009) and Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (2009).
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Rhea Parsons is an associate professor of psychology at Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. She received her M.D. at NYU School of Medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry before trading in the glamorous world of medicine for the poorer but nobler field of higher education. She also received an M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Rhea’s areas of research iinclude child development and parenting, and stereotypes and stigma, especially of women and the mentally ill. Rhea was recently inducted into Who’ s Who Among Amer ican Teachers and was named one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Professors” by the Thi Pheta Kappa Honor Society at BMCC, but she considers her greatest accomplishment solving the crisis of cell phones in her classrooms. When not teaching, Rhea can be found watching TV (for research, of course), reading psychological murder mysteries, promoting veganism and animal advocacy and spending time with her true loves: husband Tom and doggie son Benoni.
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Irena Pochop is inches away (centimeters, really) from completing her PhD candidacy in English Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores 19-century representations of female health, and the politics of fin-de-siècle female fitness and agency. For the past six years, Irena has worked as a Senior Communications Consultant for small businesses and non-profit organizations, specializing in the development and design of newsletters, newspaper articles, and press releases. She is currently the Manager of Communications and Public Relations for a local school district.
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Julie Still is a reference librarian at the Paul Robeson Library on the Camden Campus of Rutgers University. She has taught in the Women’s Studies department at Rutgers and in the graduate library science program at The Catholic University of America. Following her M.A. in Library Science from the University of Missouri she earned an M.A. in History from the University of Richmond with a thesis on the history of the corporate wife in America. Her publications include five books and numerous chapters, proceedings, articles and has given presentations at local, state, and international conferences. Her hobbies include politics and trying not to trip over her own feet.
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Katherine Verhagen Rodis researches Caribbean-Canadian women writers and publishing in Canada and the Caribbean. She was the Visiting Assistant Professor in Canadian Studies (2008-2009) at the University of Bonn, in Bonn, Germany. She is completing a Ph.D. Candidacy in the Department of English and Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto. Her published work appears in the Journal of West Indian Literature, English Studies in Canada, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, Sable Magazine, and Women and Environments International (WEI). During her studies, she’s been a publishing assistant for TSAR publications and an editorial board member for a WEI Magazine. In her leisure time, she enjoys digital photography, hiking, caring for her two cats, the zombie films of George A. Romero, and singing bluegrass and Celtic folk. She’s also internationally famous for her shoe addiction.
Jessica Gildersleeve holds a BA in English and Psychology, and a BA (Hons.I) in English from the University of Queensland, and a PhD in English from the University of Bristol. Her research on affect theory and twentieth-century women’s writing has appeared in a number of volumes, including Philament, Peer English, Rites of Passage: Postcolonial Women’s Writing, and Re-reading Pat Barker. She is currently working on two volumes (a monograph and an edited collection) on Elizabeth Bowen, as well as a project on shame in contemporary Australian discourses. In her spare time, Jessica enjoys writing (fiction and lit crit), yoga, and watching (or peeking through her fingers at) horror films.
Katie Elson Anderson is a Reference and Social Media Librarian at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University, in Camden, New Jersey. She holds an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in Anthropology from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Her publications and presentations focus on social media in libraries and education, the impact of social networking on society, storytelling in the digital age, and the how social media affects parenting. When not answering questions, researching, or writing, she is busy raising two future feminists.
Courtney McDermott received her BA in English from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA in Creative Writing with a minor in gender studies from the University of Notre Dame. She has been an editorial assistant, freelance copyeditor, high school English teacher, Peace Corps Volunteer and graduate student instructor, but most recently she is an academic adviser at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are women’s African literature, the gendering of space (particularly bathroom space), and travel memoir. Her Master’s thesis was a travel memoir, but at the moment she is writing essays on ailments and a novel on the legalization of gay marriage in Iowa. She has been published in Italy from a Backpack, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Third Wednesday, The Lyon Review, the Daily Palette, Raving Dove, and the Iowa Source Poetry Anthology. When not writing, she loves to read, practice yoga, watch movies, and consume ridiculous amounts of coffee.
