About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Colin Carman has taught at Colby College and currently teaches literature and composition at Colorado Mountain College. His work in British Romanticism and queer studies has appeared in Horror Studies, The Brokeback Book, and The Gay and Lesbian Review. He is working on a book manuscript titled “Shelley, Godwin, and the Queer Genealogy of Feeling.”
Mark J. Miller is assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. His book, tentatively titled “Voicing Abjection: Evangelic Publicity, Race, and Suffering in Early American Literature,” is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. His current work focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century religious melancholy and the trope of racial “mixture.”
William F. Schroeder is lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Manchester. As a sociocultural anthropologist, he researches queer culture in the People’s Republic of China and is active in the Queer China Working Group and the British Inter-university China Centre. He is working on a book-length ethnography that explores the relationships among play, affect, and belonging in Chinese LGBT recreational organizations.
Denise Tse-Shang Tang is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She is author of Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life (2011). Her research interests include urban spaces, queer studies, and new media. She has worked in nongovernmental organizations from 1994 to 2003 on issues of violence against women, LGBT, mental health, and HIV/AIDS. She is working on projects of spatial imaginations and youth suicide.
Ryan Richard Thoreson is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. His doctoral work in anthropology explored the politics and practices of transnational LGBTQ human rights NGOs. His past scholarship has focused on LGBTQ movements in South Africa, the Philippines, and Senegal, and the influence of the Yogyakarta Principles on the development of human rights norms.
Stephen Valocchi is professor of sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is author of Social Movements and Activism in the USA (2010) and is editor, with Robert J. Corber, of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2003). [End Page 627]
Amar Wahab is assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, Canada. He teaches in the areas of critical sexualities, race, class and sexuality, and critical studies in masculinity. His research interests include sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, and critiques of queer liberalism. He has published in the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and the Journal of Works and Days. [End Page 628]
