Defining Diversity

The Delirium staff first implemented the Editorial Advisory Board in the January 2003 issue. Each issue, the managing editor will select specific submissions and disperse the material according to each board member's speciality. The Editorial Advisory Board logo will appear next to the piece's title if approved by the board member.

Currently the Editorial Advisory Board consists of four board members: Dr. Paul Bender of Ohio Northern University, Dr. Margaret E. Cullen of Ohio Nothern University, Ms. Mary K. Herbert of Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), and Dr. Christopher Kelen of University of Macau.

Editor's note: Please send Editoral Advisory Board nominations to Scott Wortman,
s-wortman@onu.edu.

Dr. Paul Bender

Dr. Paul Bender, originally from East Moline, Illinois, is an instructor of English at Ohio Northern University. Dr. Bender holds a B.A. in English Education from Western Illinois University, a M.A. in English Composition from Western Illinois University, and an A.B.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University. His areas of interest include the following: Teaching with Technology, Rhetorical Theory, Hypertext Theory, and Professional Writing. Dr. Bender also enjoys fishing, walking, and reading.

Dr. Margaret E. Cullen

Dr. Cullen teaches courses in American literature, including works by women and minority writers, at Ohio Northern University. Her teachings are supported by research and conferences in American studies which have taken her to the archives of Howard University in Washington, D.C., to various collections associated with the University of California at Berkeley, and to an international multicultural conference in England. Her published work includes a book chapter on two African American women preachers, Zilpha Elaw and Jarena Lee, who wrote autobiographies in the 1830s and 1840s. She is currently working on a book which includes these two pioneers. In addition, Dr. Cullen is a published poet and is working on her first novel.

Ms. Mary K. Herbert

Originally from the Midwest, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Kennan Herbert now lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY. Formerly a senior editor in book publishing, she now is an adjunct associate professor of English at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. She has also led creative writing workshops at Bryn Mawr College, St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and the Vermont Writers League. Her poems have appeared in literary journals in 14 different countries, and in six anthologies. She is the author of five books. Ms. Herbert holds a degree in art and education, with honors, from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and a master's degree in creative writing (poetry) from City College of New York. At CCNY she received three scholarships and the Jane Specter Award for graduate creative writing. She has read her poetry at the Baltimore Book Festival, New Jersey Book Fair, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Public Library, and Long Island University, and other venues. The Brooklyn Arts Council of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs has awarded two grants to Ms. Herbert. She received first prize in the 1999 poetry competition sponsored by the Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, and first prize in the 2002 "Jerseyworks" competition. She was recently appointed a poetry reviewer for the "Cold Mountain Review" and serves as a consulting editor for "Downtown Brooklyn," the literary annual of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus. Her two most recent books are "Poet or Perish" published by Ginninderra Press in Australia, and "Coasts" published by Meadow Geese Press in Massachusetts.

Dr. Christopher Kelen

Christopher Kelen teaches Comparative Literature and Creative Writing in the department of English at the University of Macau. He holds degrees in literature and linguistics from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. on the writing process in poetry from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Kelen has published four books of poetry, the most recent of which (2000) is Republics (University of Wollongong Press). He has staged two collaborative (art and poetry) exhibitions in Hong Kong, Tai Mo Shan, with visual artist, Carol Archer: Tai Mo Shan (Big Hat Mountain) in 2000, and Sleep to Dream (Shui Yi Meng) in 2001. Kelen's poetry has been published and reviewed widely over the last twenty years. Kelen's papers have recently been published in Angelaki, Meanjin, Island, Queen and Text.