About the Contributors

Amy L. Brandzel is a PhD candidate in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation examines how the discourses of law and history reproduce the racial, gender, sexual, and national norms of citizenship.

David Caron is associate professor of French at the University of Michigan. He is author of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures (2001) and of articles on AIDS, homosexuality, the Holocaust, the family, and other topics. His current book project, on the question of community, uses the Marais as its starting point and the father-son relationship as its narrative frame.

Don Kulick is professor of anthropology at New York University. His most recent books are Language and Sexuality, authored with Deborah Cameron (2003); Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession, edited with Anne Meneley (2005); and Queer Sverige (in press).

Marlon B. Ross, professor of English and in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, is author of Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry (1989) and Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era (2004).

Sandra K. Soto is assistant professor of women's studies and co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina studies concentration at the University of Arizona. She is completing a manuscript titled Queering Aztlán: The Challenge of Racialized Sexuality in Chicana/o Literature and is working on a new project tentatively titled Where in the Transnational World Are U.S. Women of Color?

Raz Yosef teaches in the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University. He is author of Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (2004).