Submitted: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:19:01 -0400 Mary Ellen (Ellie) Higgins Assistant Professor of English The Pennsylvania State University McKeesport Campus University Drive McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15132-7698 USA phone: (412) 675-9461 e-mail: mxh68@psu.edu Research interests: African literatures and cinema, Caribbean literatures, postcolonial theory, women's studies, and cultural studies.