Queer Times, Queer Becomings

Contributors

Contributors Sara Ahmed is Professor in Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College , University of London. Her publications include The Promise of Happiness (2010), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000), and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998). She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, and has begun a new research project on will and willfulness. Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction (1994) and Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic (2000), as well as the co-editor, with Natasha Hurley, of Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (2004). He is currently at work on a book exploring the queer temporalities of gothic choreography. Professor of English at Penn State, Claire Colebrook is the author of numerous books, including Deleuze and the Meaning of Life (2009), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2007), Milton, Evil and Literary History (2008), Philosophy and Post-Structuralist Theory: From Kant to Deleuze (2006), and Gilles Deleuze (2002). She is currently completing two books, one on William Blake and the other on extinction. Tim Dean is Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature. The author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009) and Beyond Sexuality (2000), he also has co-edited, with Christopher Lane, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001) and, with James Bono and 349 350 CONTRIBUTORS Ewa Ziarek, A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (2008). He is currently completing two books, What Is Psychoanalytic Thinking ? and a co-edited volume, Porn Archives. Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of a number of books, including Anecdotal Theory (2002), Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (1997), and Thinking Through the Body (1987). She has just finished a book entitled The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time (Duke University Press, 2011), which includes a much revised version of her contribution to Queer Times, Queer Becomings. Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), Female Masculinity (1998), and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995). She is also the co-author, with Del LaGrace Volcano, of The Drag King Book (1999) and the co-editor, with Ira Livingston, of Posthuman Bodies (1995). Her new book, The Queer Art of Failure, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Dana Luciano is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2007), which won the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize in 2008. Some other recent publications include “Geological Fantasies, Haunting Anachronies: Eros, Time, and History in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Amber Gods’ ” (ESQ 2009) and “Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven” (GLQ 2007). She is currently working on a monograph titled Materializations: Ghosts, Affect and Embodiment in America, 1850–1910. E. L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University and the author of Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism (1999). Her articles have appeared in journals such as differences, Camera Obscura, Poetics Today, and postmodern culture. She is currently writing a book-length study on Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and aesthetic theory. 351 CONTRIBUTORS David Marriott is Associate Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of two critical books, Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (2007) and On Black Men (2000), as well as two books of poetry: Hoodoo Voodoo (2008) and Incognegro (2006). He is currently completing his third book of poetry and a book of critical essays on Frantz Fanon. Associate Professor of English at Boston College, Kevin Ohi is the author of Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov (2005) and Henry James and the Queerness of Style (University of...