About the Contributors

Daniel Balderston is author of Borges: Realidades y simulacros (2000) and editor, with Donna J. Guy, of Sex and Sexuality in Latin America (1997).

Linda Garber is associate professor in the Department of English and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Santa Clara University. She is author of Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory (2001) and editor of Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer Subjects (1994).

Elisa Glick is assistant professor of English and of women's and gender studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has published articles in Cultural Critique, Feminist Review, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her current book project examines the central but contradictory place of the queer subject in modern, capitalist culture.

Sharon Holland is author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (2000).

Gordon Brent Ingram is an environmental planner based in Vancouver. He teaches at the School of Environmental Studies of the University of Victoria and at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The first editor of Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance (1997), he conducts research focusing on decision-making frameworks, extending to questions of colonial, postcolonial, and sexual politics, over (and social conflicts around) public open space, including parks and forests both in urban and in rural areas.

Lisa L. Moore is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (1997). Her current projects include an edited collection of primary sources titled Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolution and a study of the eighteenth-century Sapphic memoirist, garden designer, and botanical illustrator Mary Delany.

Karin Quimby is visiting assistant professor of film, literature, and lesbian and gay studies at Allegheny College.

José Quiroga is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Emory University and author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (2000).

Suzanne Raitt is Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. She is author of Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) and May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian (2000) and editor of Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Criticism (1995). She is working on a book about modernist waste.

Masha Raskolnikov is assistant professor of English at Cornell University, where she teaches medieval literature. Her dissertation, titled "Subject to Debate: Gender, Self, and Allegory in the Middle English Poetry of Disputation," explores the place of gender in a genealogy of the premodern subject as represented in medieval English allegorical disputations. She is working on a book about medieval body-soul debates and their implications for contemporary critical theory.