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  • Contributors

Brenda D. Frink is a postdoctoral scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. She is working on a book manuscript about race, gender, and historical memory in California.

Lynne Gerber is a scholar in residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the body, sexuality, and the construction of health in contemporary Christianity. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (University of Chicago Press, 2011), a study of the moral construction of fatness and homosexuality in Christian weight-loss programs and ex-gay ministries. She is also researching queer Christian responses to HIV/AIDS.

Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College. He is completing “A Floating Chinaman,” a book on American images of the transpacific in the first half of the twentieth century. His work has appeared in Artforum, the Atlantic, Bookforum, the New York Times, Slate, and the Wire. He served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America.

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is associate professor of American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press, 2008). She is completing a new book on contemporary state-centered Hawaiian nationalism and the implications of its attendant disavowal of indigeneity for questions of land, gender, and sexuality. Kauanui is a cofounder of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, as well as the producer and host of a public affairs radio program, “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond,” which is syndicated across ten U.S. states through the Pacifica Radio network. [End Page 181]

Jana K. Lipman is assistant professor in the history department at Tulane University. She is the author of Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (University of California Press, 2009), which was the 2009 cowinner of the Taft Prize in Labor History. She has articles published in the Journal of Asian American Studies and Immigrants and Minorities. Lipman is working on a book-length project on the U.S. military and the politics of humanitarian operations.

Drew Lopenzina is assistant professor of early American literature and Native studies at Sam Houston State University. His publications have focused on Native American engagements with Western literacy in the colonial period and beyond, examining how early Native writers advocated for Native community and sovereignty within the colonial dynamic. He is the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period (State University of New York Press, 2012).

Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian and cultural critic. She specializes in African American literature, racial violence throughout U.S. literature and culture, and black drama and performance. She examines how texts, both written and performed, have helped terrorized families and communities survive and thrive. She is the author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2011). She is also associate professor of English at Ohio State University.

Joey L. Mogul is a partner at the People’s Law Office, director of the civil rights clinic at DePaul University College of Law, and author of The Dykier, the Butcher, the Better: The State’s Use of Homophobia and Sexism to Execute Women.

Kristen B. Proehl is a lecturer in the Department of English at Clemson University, where she teaches courses in children’s, adolescent, and American literature. Her current book project examines the formative ties between literary sentimentalism and the development of the American tomboy figure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [End Page 182]

Andrea J. Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer who focuses on policing of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and was an expert consultant for Amnesty International’s report “Stonewalled: Police Abuse and Misconduct against LGBT People in the US.”

Dean Spade is assistant professor at the Seattle University School of Law, teaching administrative law, poverty law, and law and social movements. In 2002 he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that...

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