GUEST EDITOR BIOS

Theresa Carilli, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Creative Arts, teaches at Purdue University Calumet. She has published two book of plays, Familial Circles (Guernica, 2001) and Women As Lovers (Guernica, 1996), co-edited two anthologies, Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media (SUNY, 1998), and Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives (University Press of America, 2005), and guest edited a theater issue of Voices in Italian Americana.  She has published numerous performance texts and articles that explore the connection between culture and the creative process.

Jane Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet, is the author of Mythic Black Fiction:  the Transformation of History (University of Tennessee Press, 1986).  Her work has appeared in Callaloo:  A Journal of African and African American Arts and Letters, Obsidian, Black Women in America, The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the U. S., the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Heath Anthology of American Literature, Belles Lettres, and U. S. Media and the Middle East:  Image and Perception. She co-edited Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives (University Press of America, 2005).