She is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Family Law, Queen's University, Belfast, N Ireland. An adoptee of Indigenous descent (from Quebec), she is a former solicitor, gaining her PhD from Ulster University in 2012. She is the author of 'A Law of Bloodties: The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry' (Springer, 2013) and Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature: Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion  (Palgrave, 2024) and an Associate Editor of the Liverpool Law Review. She is a Board Member of AdoptNI, a charity aimed at supporting all who are affected by adoption. 

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.

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 professor and director of the School of Interdisciplinary 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) and Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (The Ohio State University Press, 2023). 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.

Kelly M. Rich is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on the long afterlives of war and their impress on the cultural imagination. She is the author of States of Repair: The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel (Oxford University Press, 2023), and is currently at work on her second book project, Children of Conflict: Transnational Adoption and Literary Form. With Nicole M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger, she co-edited The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment (Northwestern, 2022). Her research has appeared in journals including Representations, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, and Law & Literature, and has been supported by the American Academy of University Women and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

He is Professor Emeritus of English at Florida State University, where he was department chair and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor.  His book Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2024 in the Formations series.  At ASAC conferences, he has also presented papers on Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, Edward Hirsch’s book-length poem Gabriel, Robert Pinsky’s book of poems At the Foundling Hospital, Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem, and the British adoption romcom Trying.  His most recent published essay takes up Kathryn Ma’s 2014 Chinese adoption novel The Year She Went Away. To counter pronatalist noise, he is working on the history of antinatalist thought and culture.  Escaped from Florida, he divides time between Annapolis Maryland and the North Carolina mountains.