Jeanne Perreault is professor of English at the University of Calgary. She is coeditor (with Sylvia Vance) of Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada (1990), and coeditor (with Joseph Bruchac) of Critical Visions: Contemporary North American Native Writing, a special issue of Ariel (1994). She is the author of Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography (1995). Other publications include "Memory Alive: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory in Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo" (Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives, ed. Renée Hulan, ECW Press, 1999), and "Writing Whiteness: Linda Griffith's Raced Subjectivity in The Book of Jessica" (Essays on Canadian Writing, 1996). Currently, she is examining the racializing of whiteness in white women's texts.
Heather Zwicker is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta. She locates her work at the crossroads of postcolonialism and cultural studies, with a particular focus on queer theory and feminisms. Her teaching interests include postcolonial theory and fiction, queer theory, feminist studies, and contemporary African, Canadian, and Northern Irish literature. Some of her recent publications include "Between Mater and Matter: Radical Novels by Republican Women" (Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. ed. Marilyn Cohen and Nancy Curtin, St. Martin's Press, 1999), "Homosexuality in Zimbabwe" (Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures. ed. George Haggerty, Garland Publishing, forthcoming), and "Gendered Troubles: Refiguring 'Woman' in Northern Ireland" (Genders, 1994).