About the Contributors

George Chauncey is professor of history and director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination at the trial of Colorado's Amendment 2, which resulted in the Supreme Court's Romer v. Evans decision, and he was the organizer and lead author of the historians' amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. He is author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994) and coeditor of Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989) and of "Thinking Sexuality Transnationally," a special issue of GLQ (1999). He is completing The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation Era.

Carla Freccero is professor and chair of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais (1991) and Popular Culture: An Introduction (1999) and is editor, with Louise Fradenburg, of Premodern Sexualities (1996). She has recently completed a book tentatively titled Queer/Early/Modern.

Jonathan Goldberg is Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University. His contributions to queer studies include Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (1992), Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples (1997), and Willa Cather and Others (2001) and the edited collections Queering the Renaissance (1994) and Reclaiming Sodom (1994). His most recent books are Shakespeare's Hand (2003) and Tempest in the Caribbean (2004).

Jody Greene is associate professor of literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A recently completed book, The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, GLQ, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

George E. Haggerty is professor and chair of English and LGBTI studies at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998), and Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century (1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, with Bonnie Zimmerman (1995), and Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000).

Jeffrey Masten is associate professor of English and gender studies at Northwestern University. He is author of Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (1997) and editor, with Peter Stallybrass and Nancy Vickers, of Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production (1997). He is writing a book titled Spelling Shakespeare and Other Essays in Queer Philology.

Jeffrey Merrick is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is editor of Homosexuality in Modern France (1996) and Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection (2001), both with Bryant T. Ragan Jr., and of Homosexuality in French History and Culture (2002), with Michael Sibalis. He is working on a book about family, gender, and sexuality in eighteenth-century French political culture.

Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His most recent books are Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (1996), The Authentic Shakespeare, and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage (2002), and Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions (2003).

Laurie Shannon is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is author of Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts (2002). Her current book project, Nature's Bias: Courses, Kinds, and the Zoographies of Early Modern Knowledge, pursues another measure of "kyndeness" and considers the role of the species concept in a culture often credited with—or discredited by—an invention of "the human."

Valerie Traub is professor of English and director of women's studies at the University of Michigan...