The Author: Seodial Frank H. Deena is Professor of Multicultural and Postcolonial Literature and Criticism at East Carolina University where he coordinates the Graduate Multicultural and Transnational Literatures Program and teaches multicultural, world, postcolonial, African American, and Caribbean literature, as well as the Bible as literature. He received his Ph.D. in literature and criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from the University of Guyana. He has published widely in professional journals and has contributed chapters to several edited collections. He is the author of Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works by Minority Writers (Peter Lang, 2001), From Around the Globe: Secular Authors and Biblical Perspectives (2007), and Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Postmodern Cross-Sections and Intersections with the Bible, Literature, and Culture (forthcoming).