About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Sarah M. Creighton is a consultant gynecologist at University College Hospital, London. She is a member of the multidisciplinary team for disorders of sex development (DSD). She has a clinical and research interest in DSD and has published on long-term gynecological and psychosexual sexual outcomes in these conditions.
Alice D. Dreger, PhD, is a Guggenheim fellow, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, and the former board chair of the Intersex Society of North America. Her research and advocacy focus on the medical and social treatment of people born with norm-challenging bodies. More information about her work is available through her Web site, www.alicedreger.com .
Ellen K. Feder is associate professor of philosophy at American University. She is author of Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (2007) and is working on a book on ethics and the medical management of intersex tentatively titled “Disturbing Bodies.”
An internationally recognized expert on legal issues relating to gender, sex, sexual identity, and sexual orientation, Julie A. Greenberg is professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Her work on gender identity has been cited by a number of state and federal courts in the United States as well as courts in other countries. Her book Sex Matters: Intersexuality and the Law is forthcoming from NYU Press.
April M. Herndon, PhD, is assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies and director of the WILL Program (Women’s Initiative for Learning and Leadership) at Winona State University in Winona, MN. Her research focuses on stigmatized embodiments, and she is especially interested in representations and lived experiences of fatness in contemporary American culture.
Iain Morland is a lecturer in cultural criticism at Cardiff University, where he teaches critical theory, gender studies, and queer theory. He has published widely on the ethics, theory, and psychology of intersex in interdisciplinary journals such as Textual Practice, Continuum, and Feminism & Psychology. He is editor (with Annabelle Willox) of Queer Theory (2005). [End Page 355]
Katrina Roen is associate professor of societal psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. Her work on gender, sexed embodiment, and psychomedical interventions has emerged out of research on both transsexuality and intersexuality, and draws from queer and poststructuralist feminist approaches. She has also published in Body and Society, Signs, Journal of Gender Studies, and International Journal of Critical Psychology, among other journals and edited collections.
Vernon A. Rosario is a child psychiatrist and associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity (1997) and Homosexuality and Science: A Guide to the Debates (2002). His current clinical research is on sexuality and gender identity in transgender and intersex children and adults.
Nikki Sullivan is associate professor of critical and cultural studies, and director of the Somatechnics Research Centre, at Macquarie University. She is the author of Tattooed Bodies (2001), A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (2003), and of numerous articles on forms of body modification.
Del LaGrace Volcano is a visual artist and intersex activist using primarily photography to spread the gender-queer word. His/her pioneering work with sexual and political minorities has helped create a queer and transgender aesthetic and an archive of the sexual micropolitics of the last twenty years. His anthologies include Love Bites (1991), Sublime Mutations (2000), The Drag King Book (with Judith Halberstam, 1999), Sex Works (2005), and most recently, Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities (with Ulrika Dahl, 2008). www.dellagracevolcano.com [End Page 356]
