She received her PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. She is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern and contemporary art history, as well as community engagement through the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art. She is the author of Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain (Routledge, 2017), which explores intersections between art, anthropology, and national identity. One of her current research focuses is contemporary representations of LGBTQ+ families.

She is a Lecturer with the Princeton University Writing Program. Her interdisciplinary scholarship on representations of kinship and subjectivity in American literature, film, and culture reveals the potential for new knowledge offered by the infusion of an adoption studies perspective into other established fields of inquiry. Her article on embodiment and identity in African American adoption autobiography, “Grafted Belongings: Identification in Autobiographical Narratives of African American Transracial Adoptees,” appears in Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism (Wisconsin UP, 2016). Currently, she is writing on adoption and other forms of kinship in the posthuman context. She has serves as ASAC liaison with the Modern Language Association.

She is a U.S. domestic Colombian adoptee, adoptive and biological mother, and Associate Professor and program director of the M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction for Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. Her primary area of research is within the field of critical media literacy education; specifically, she is interested in the ways that the media and popular culture affect identity and society. In addition, she has written on Latinx adoptees and identity, education policy and practices, and critical multicultural education. She especially enjoys the engaged scholarship she does in schools in and around the Baltimore area, to include chairing the board of a local bilingual, Spanish/English Catholic elementary/middle school.

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and an emeritus editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005). She’s an editor of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (SUNY 2013) and of The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader (2015). She has edited The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader (2023) as well as six journal special issues. Her essays, short stories, and poems have won multiple awards and have appeared in Fourth Genre, Northwest Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University, where she teaches nonfiction.

She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she teaches in the undergraduate Sexuality Studies program and in the Graduate Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Program. She conducts research in the fields of critical adoption studies and gender and sexuality studies; her work is informed by feminist, social and political philosophy that enlists continental, poststructuralist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and queer and transgender theories of subjectivity. She has published journal articles that examine transexualities, queer identities, drag, and sexual subjectivities, as well as same-sex spousal rights, and ethical knowledge; she has also performed drag on the stage and enlisted it pedagogically in the classroom. She is the author of Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family (McGill Queen’s, 2019), which critically examines “family” identities and experiences in light of the systemic devaluation of adoptive ties as it occurs within modern Western discourses, or the human sciences, that address the family, adoption, twins, and incest. She is also the contributing editor of Adoption and Mothering (Demeter, 2012), an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examines discourses, debates and the politics of motherhood in the context of adoption.

She is an associate professor in integrative, religious, and intercultural studies at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (U of Illinois P, 2019). She also co-edited Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School (U of Illinois P, 2020) with Denise A. Delgado. Her work also has been featured in Journal of Korean Studies, Adoption & Culture, Feminist Formations, and edited collections on transnational kinship and representations of Asian Americans. McKee received her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University.

He is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His research explores the intersections of adoption, postcolonialism and transculturalism, with particular reference to migrant and minority writing in the UK, Ireland and the US. He is the author of Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption (Bloomsbury, 2015) and is co-editor (with Emily Hipchen) of Ohio State University Press’s Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture.

He is an assistant professor of critical race and ethnic studies at University of California, Merced, where he previously was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow from 2014-2016. His work has appeared in Adoption & Culture, Adoption Quarterly, and Critical Discourse Studies. Myers is currently working on his book project, tentatively titled, Race and the Violence of Love: The Making of Family and Nation in U.S. Adoptions. He received his PhD in Ethnic Studies from University of California, San Diego.