Contributors to AE-Extra - November 2002

Malcolm Finney
Assistant Professor
California State University, Long Beach
E-mail: mfinney@csulb.edu

Malcolm Finney is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on language acquisition, bilingualism, and literacy. One of his teaching goals is to make his classes meaningful to students from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. His research focuses on the acquisition and processing of a second language and implications for language pedagogy. He is particularly interested in the different factors that may be responsible for discrepancy in terms of speed and efficiency between first and adult second language and literacy acquisition.

Karen Heise
Graduate Student
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
E-mail: kheise2000@yahoo.com

Karen Heise is a graduate student at the University of Northern Colorado and Editor-in-Chief of Academic Exchange Extra. She has published poetry, essays, and fiction.

Jayne Fenton Keane
Post-graduate student
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: jfk@poetinresidence.com

Jayne Fenton Keane is the recipient of multiple national (Australian) awards in multimedia, plays, short stories, and poetry, as well as three National Writers Fellowships. Her book The Stalking Tongue Book II: Slamming the Sonnet, at www.poetinresidence.com was launched by the Queensland Minister for the Arts and was exhibited at the UCLA e-literature symposium (2002) and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2002) as part of The Electronic Literature Organization's Digital Culture Festival. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.

She was awarded Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2002) and offered the Griffith University School of Arts Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2002) for a Ph.D. in Three-Dimensional Poetic Structures. Keane is currently studying for a Ph.D. Awards, 2002. Other books Torn (2000) and Ophelia's Codpiece (2002).

She is also the recipient of multiple grants from Arts Queensland, and Australian High Commission funded artist to tour South Africa. She has been featured on Voices, an ABC documentary on contemporary Australian poets and 60 Minutes in the USA, as well as broadcasts on radio stations in Australia, the U.S., and South Africa. She has over a hundred publication credits, including major international anthologies and invitations to major writing, art, and music festivals in the U.S., Australia and South Africa

Heather Ouellette
Junior
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
E-mail: traillogic82@yahoo.com

Heather Oullette is a junior at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Dr. T. Ravichandran
Faculty member
The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
E-mail: ravic4@rediffmail.com

Academic Exchange Extra invites reader responses to any writings in this issue--especially articles advancing the scholarly debate of issues raised.

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