Susan Brown is a visiting Professor in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and Professor in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

Jeanne Perreault is Professor and Associate Head of the Graduate Program in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Jo-Ann Wallace is Chair of the Women's Studies Program and Professor in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

Heather Zwicker is Associate Professor of English and Vice-Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She locates her work at the crossroads of postcolonialism, feminism, and cultural studies.

Monica Lynn Clements and Patricia Rosser Clements are antiques dealers with a passion for travel, writing, art, and photography.

Amber Dean is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her first book, Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance (2015), offers a critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies that brought the story of Vancouver's disappeared women to a wider public. In addition to publishing work on the topic of Air India, she has also published several journal articles and book chapters on artistic and (counter)memorial responses to murdered or missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and on gentrification in Edmonton, Hamilton, and Vancouver. With Vancouver writer Anne Stone, she has guest edited a special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered or missing women, and she has contributed chapters to several edited books, including Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress.

Cecily Devereux is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (2005).

Elizabeth Groeneveld is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Tessa Jordan is a Vancouver-based researcher and educator whose work focuses on histories of Canadian feminism and the private sector's role in the fight for social justice and ecological sustainability.

Christine Overall is professor of philosophy at Queen's University and author of Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis.

Julie Rak is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004), the editor of Auto/biography in Canada (WLU Press, 2005), and co-editor, with Anna Poletti, of Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves. Her website can be found at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/julie-rak/home

"Brown (U. of Alberta) collects 22 essays by contributors who dare to be optimistic about women in the academy and to hope for the possibility of new 'waves' of feminism. Some describe the challenges and emotional costs of being feminists in the university, while others suggest that feminists are holding strong in faculties, research groups, journals, courtrooms, and boardrooms. Some specific topics explored include academic mothering, adventures of a female associate dean, Western feminism and the multicultural university, reviving Wollstonecraft for future feminists, and the United Alumnae Association and women's co-education at Toronto." - Reference and Research Book News, December 2011

"The anthology features papers based on presentations at a 2006 conference at the University of Alberta in honour of Patricia Clements, U of A’s first female dean of arts. The resulting chapters span a wide range of topics in three broad categories: women in Canadian academe, the wave theory of feminism, and feminist activism in the broader community. Accordingly, the book is divided into sections, each focusing on one of these areas.... Most Canadian liberal arts scholars will find several chapters here that resonate with them, several that edify them, and a couple that challenge them to do better. This volume should be in the office of every faculty association, senior administrator and equity officer across the country." Shannon Dea, CAUT Bulletin, February 2012 [Full article at http://www.cautbulletin.ca/en_article.asp?articleid=3413]

"[Not Drowning But Waving] examines such topics as the relationship of the liberal arts to the larger university, the costs and rewards for women in administration, the corporatization of university campuses, balancing personal life with professional aspirations, and the intergenerational and transcultural tensions within feminist communities." - Geoff McMaster, Folio, May 11, 2012

"This anthology is worth reading for all women who feel isolated by academia’s failure to address their personal needs and who feel a sense of failure at not living up to unrealistic workloads and the pressure to advance their careers at any cost.... Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts does much to address the formal silence around challenges facing women academics.... [and] has much to offer for anyone open to examining and articulating women’s experiences within academia." Jennifer Burwell, Reviews in Cultural Theory, July 2012 [Full article athttp://bit.ly/RS9vgv]

"A revealing and rewarding collection of writing about women, feminism and the liberal arts.... The 22 essays include personal stories of life in the academy's trenches, statistical, systemic and historical analyses of women in academe, and narratives of activism in and beyond academia.... [T]his collection should be read by everyone concerned with women and universities." - Amanda LeRougetel, Herizons, Fall 2012

"However difficult the swim sometimes seems, feminists in the liberal arts aren’t drowning, as long as Canadian institutions continue to employ a range of thoughtful voices such as these, who remind us of the temperature of the water and the hazards therein." Kathryn Barnwell and Marni Stanley, Canadian Literature, May 2013 [Full review at http://bit.ly/11fVgJr]

"[The book] brings together twenty-three essays from professors (and one graduate student) in the Humanities in a frank yet optimistic conversation about the Canadian university as a gendered and inequitable workplace.... By taking the time to think about the disjuncture between feminist theory in the classroom and feminist practice within the university, Not Drowning But Waving makes the all-too familiar academic grind thoroughly and productively strange." Sunita Nigam, The Bull Calf Review 3.2 [Full review athttp://www.thebullcalfreview.ca/susanbrown.htm]