Breastfeeding & Culture

Ann Marie A. Short teaches English, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. Her previous publications have appeared in Literature Compass, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. In addition to motherhood studies, her scholarship focuses on Anglophone postcolonial and immigrant women writers. Abigail L. Palko is the Director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on cultural and literary representations of mothering practices. Her book, Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature, is available from Palgrave Macmillan. She co-edited Mothers, Mothering and Globalization with Dorsía Silva Smith and Laila Malik for Demeter Press. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and Demeter Press publications. Dionne Irving’s work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Boulevard Magazine, The Normal School, The Crab Orchard Review, and other places. She is a professor at Saint Mary's College, a women's college in South Bend, Indiana. Currently, Irving is working on a novel set in Jamaica.