About MP

Our Mission

MP is an online, peer-reviewed, international feminist journal. Our goal is to provide an intelligent forum for feminist discourse in cyberspace, to give voice to a variety of voices on issues of gender and power. We believe that words can change the world!

Our Staff

Lynda L. Hinkle, Founder and Managing Editor
Alison Edwards, Managing Editor
Vibiana Bowman, Production Editor
Stephanie Marchese, Assistant Production Editor
April Gentry, Content Development Editor

Our Editorial Board

Vibiana Bowman
bowman@camden.rutgers.edu
http://vib.us
Vibiana Bowman 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) and Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007). She has also published in various refereed journals and library and information science publications. Bowman is also currently a PhD candidate in the Children and Childhood Studies program at Rutgers University.

Alison Edwards
aedwards@nospam.meowpower.org
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.

April Gentry
aprilgentry@msn.com
April Gentry holds an MA in American literature from Ohio University, where she also earned a graduate certificate in Women's Studies, and a PhD from Southern Illinois University in 19th-century American literature. Her published and/or 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 surfs, writes, plays soccer, and is learning to play guitar (not necessarily in that order). She is currently an assistant professor at Savannah State University.

Lynda L. Hinkle
lynda_hinkle@Yahoo.com
http://clam.rutgers.edu/~llhinkle
Lynda L. Hinkle attends Rutgers University School of Law in Camden. She has an MS in Teaching from Rowan University and is completing her MA in English at Rutgers University. She has presented papers at national conferences and received a number of awards for her presentations and research.

Stephanie Marchese
stephaniejomarchese@gmail.com
Stephanie Marchese is a recent graduate from Simmons College in Boston, MA earning two Masters in Gender/Cultural Studies and Teaching. She is a certified secondary History teacher in Massachusetts. She has presented at various national conferences on subjects of race in nineteenth century female literature, human rights advocacy, and what she terms the (re)emergence of radical femininity in queer communities. Blending her theoretical background with current pedagogical concerns, Marchese seeks to shake up the American classroom. She is currently conducting research in the field of queer pedagogy, various forms of identity formation and the public interactions between subversive adult and young adult concepts of sexuality.

Jolie Mandelbaum
jmandelbaum@nospam.meowpower.org
Jolie Mandelbaum has her Bachelor's in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently attending American University to obtain her MFA in Writing and Literature. She's interested in literature, writing, boxing, crochet and generally being a menace. If she had a hammer, she'd smash patriarchy.

Rhea Parsons
r.par@att.net
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 in which she has published and presented at conferences include stereotypes and stigma, especially of the mentally ill, popular culture, psychology and the law, parenting, and how the media affects society in terms of morals, prejudices, self-image, and misogyny. 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. When not teaching, Rhea can be found watching TV (for research, of course), reading psychological murder mysteries, and spending time with her true loves: soon-to-be husband Tom, doggie daughter Poochie and doggie son Benoni.

Kerri Provost
kprovost@nospam.meowpower.org
Kerri Provost has her MA in English and is employed at a community college in Connecticut. She writes for the Hartford Undercurrent and participates on several radio shows. She is an adjunct in the Rhetoric of Professional Writing department at the University of Hartford.