About the Contributors

Deborah Bright has been a professor in the photography and art history departments at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1989. Bright's groundbreaking collection of images and writings on photography and sexuality, The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire (1998), was a finalist for the 1999 Lambda Book Award in Visual Arts. In addition, her essays on photography and cultural issues have appeared in Art Journal, Afterimage, exposure, Views, and Michigan Quarterly. Her photographic works have been shown internationally in Europe and Canada and can be found in many permanent collections in museums in the United States.

Jens Richard Giersdorf teaches in the Department of Dance Studies at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on training and disciplining of bodies in dance and other movement practices as well as corporeal resistance to the normative. His publications analyze choreography and performance as productive sites of identity components such as class, gender, and sexuality as well as national and global implications of these constructions.

Jason Goldman is a doctoral student in art history at the University of Southern California, where he works on the history of photography, modern art, and perverse visual cultures. He is the author of several entries in The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (2004).

Scott Herring is assistant professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He recently completed his first book manuscript, "Queer Slumming," and is currently at work on his second project, "Another Country: Queer Regionalisms and the Politics of Anti-urbanism."

Lucas Hilderbrand is a PhD candidate in cinema studies at New York University. His work has appeared in Camera Obscura and Film Quarterly, as well as the anthology The Cinema of Todd Haynes (2006); he also edited Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews (2006), with Kate Horsfield.

Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. She makes and writes about activist video. Her books include AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Media (1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (2001), and F Is for Phony: Fake Documentaries and the Undoing of Truth, edited with Jesse Lerner (forthcoming). Her AIDS videos include Women and AIDS (with Jean Carlomusto, 1987), WE CARE: A Video for Care Providers of People Affected by AIDS (with the Women's AIDS Video Enterprise, 1990), and Video Remains (2005). For more information about Video Remains, see pzacad.pitzer.edu/~ajuhasz/.

Tirza True Latimer teaches in visual studies at the California College of the Arts and is guest curator of Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, a traveling exhibition organized by the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley. She is editor, with Whitney Chadwick, of The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris between the Wars (2003) and author of Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris (2005).

Erica Rand is professor of art and visual culture and chair of women and gender studies at Bates College. Her writings include Barbie's Queer Accessories (1995) and The Ellis Island Snow Globe (2005). She serves on the board of the journal Radical Teacher. Her current work concerns gender weirdness, middle-aged figure skating, and everyday life.

David Román is professor of English at the University of Southern California, with a joint appointment in USC's Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. He is author of Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts (2005). He is also author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS, which won the 1999 ATHE Award for outstanding book in theater studies, and is coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance, which won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. He served as editor of Theatre Journal, an academic quarterly published by Johns Hopkins University Press, from 1999 to 2003. He is a founding editorial board member of GLQ.