Reading across identity borders / James Phelan -- Colored readings, or, Interpretation and the raciogendered body / Angeletta K.M. Gourdine -- In another place / Louise Yelin -- When a "Speck" begins to read / Kelly J. Mays -- "Some of their stories are like my Life, I guess" / Jane Greer -- Reading like a woman / Anne G. Berggren -- "Both a woman and a complete professional" / Erin A. Smith -- "That, my dear, is called reading" / Rona Kaufman -- Rhetorizing the contact zone / Laurie Grobman -- What literature is "ours"? / David Bleich -- Reading "whiteness," unreading "race" / AnaLouise Keating