About the Contributors
Kathleen Biddick is professor of history at Temple University. She is working on a book titled "Making Enemies: Exceptional Bodies and Sovereign Technologies."
Tom Boellstorff is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (2005), A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (2007), and, coedited with William L. Leap, Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (2004).
Peter Coviello is associate professor of English at Bowdoin College, where he is acting director of the Program in Africana Studies and where, from 2002 to 2006, he was chair of the Program in Gay and Lesbian Studies. He is the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature (2005) and the editor of Walt Whitman's Memoranda during the War (2004).
Jon Davies holds an MA in film and video (critical and historical studies) from York University in Toronto. He works as a freelance film and video curator, and a film, video and contemporary art critic in Toronto. His writing has been published in the periodicals Animation Journal, Canadian Art, and Cinema Scope and the anthology The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows (2007).
Carolyn Dinshaw is professor of English and social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is taking her time on a book about queer history and the experience of temporality.
Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature and chair of the Department of English at Tufts University. His books include Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (1994) and No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004). His current project, tentatively titled Bad Education, examines sexuality, aesthetics, and the value of the humanities.
Roderick A. Ferguson is associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004). [End Page 419]
Carla Freccero is professor of literature, feminist studies, and history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is Queer/Early/Modern (2006).
Elizabeth Freeman is associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002), and her manuscript in progress is called "Time Binds: Essays on Queer Temporality."
Judith Halberstam is professor of English and director of the Center for Feminist Research at USC. She is the author of several books, including Female Masculinity (1995) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005). She is currently working on a book on the queer politics of knowledge titled "Dude, Where's My Theory?"
Annamarie Jagose is associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies at the University of Auckland. She is author of Lesbian Utopics (1994), Queer Theory (1996), and Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence (2002). She is also the author of several prize-winning novels, most recently, Slow Water (2003). Her current project, "Orgasmology," is an investigation of the cultural meanings that have accrued to orgasm across the twentieth century.
Dana Luciano is an assistant professor teaching sexuality and gender studies in the English department at Georgetown University. Her book Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from New York University Press. She is currently working on a manuscript titled "Unfamiliar: Nonsynchronous Sexualities, Narrative Form, (Trans)National Futures."
José Esteban Muñoz is the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is the author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), Cruising Utopia: the Performance and Politics of Queer Futurity (forthcoming), Feeling Brown: Ethnicity, Affect, and Performance (forthcoming), and coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o...
