About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Brian J. Distelberg is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. His dissertation examines efforts by African American, Latino, Jewish, feminist, and gay and lesbian activists and organizations in the United States to combat stereotypes and encourage "positive" representations in the mass media between the 1940s and the 1990s.
Roger Hallas is assistant professor of English at Syracuse University. He is author of Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image (2009) and coeditor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture (2007).
Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. He is working on United in Anger:A History of ACT UP, a feature-length documentary, and the ACT UP Oral History Project. He cofounded MIX — the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. He created the AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library and curated the series Fever in the Archive for the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Debra Levine is an ABD student in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, where she is also an adjunct instructor in the Department of Undergraduate Drama in the Tisch School of the Arts. She holds an MA in performance studies from New York University and an MFA in theater direction from Columbia University. She is working on her dissertation, "Enduring ACT UP: The Ethics, Politics and Performances of Affinity," and was an active member of ACT UP New York from 1988 until 1993.
Valerie Rohy is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (2000) and Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (2009).
Paul Sendziuk is a senior lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS (2004). His current research project is titled "The Art of AIDS Prevention: Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia, South Africa, and the United States." See www.thebody.com/visualaids/australia. [End Page 491]
Amy L. Stone is assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her research examines gender, sexuality, and strategy within social movements. She currently studies campaign strategies in the LGBT movement in response to antigay referendums and initiatives sponsored by the religious Right from 1974 to 2008.
Scott St. Pierre teaches in the English department at Montgomery College. "Bent Hemingway" is part of a larger project that traces the modern emergence of connections between literary style and sexual identity. That project also includes chapters on Henry James and Gertrude Stein and the sexual politics of style.
Diane Watt is professor of English at Aberystwyth University. She has published widely on medieval and early modern literature and in queer and feminist theory. Her most recent books include Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics (2004) and Medieval Women's Writing (2007). [End Page 492]
