About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Drew Beard is a PhD student in English, with an emphasis in film and media studies, at the University of Oregon. His areas of interest include television, queer theory, and the prime-time serial.
Julian Carter is a theorist and critical historian. “Gay Marriage and Pulp Fiction” is part of a larger project on “unlesbian dishistory” that uses unconventional historical sources and methods to explore modes of same-sex love between twentieth-century U.S. women for whom “lesbian” was an available cultural category but who did not acquire that identity. Carter has taught at Stanford and New York University and is currently chair of the Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. He sits on the governing board of the Committee on LGBT History.
Alexander Cho is completing his MA in the Media Studies program in the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Radio-TV-Film. He will enroll in the department’s PhD program this fall. Previously, he was the editor of Southern California’s largest gay and lesbian newsmagazine, Frontiers.
Jennifer DeClue received a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies at California State University, Los Angeles, graduating with honors in June 2009. She is currently writing her thesis on representations of queer black female masculinity in three sites of popular culture: the documentary The Aggressives, the short film Pariah, and the HBO drama series The Wire. Before moving into academia, Jennifer graduated from Art Center College of Design’s film program and worked in the film industry as assistant to the director Vondie Curtis Hall.
Lorraine E. Herbst, PhD, is an anthropologist whose research areas include queer and gender studies, refugees and human rights, and new information technologies. She is currently an independent scholar working on a book manuscript. She has developed and taught the courses Global Sexualities and Queer Families at Syracuse University. [End Page 657]
Kara Keeling is assistant professor in the Division of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts and in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her current research involves issues of temporality, media, and black and queer cultural politics; digital media, globalization, and difference; and Gilles Deleuze and liberation theory. She is the author of The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (2007) and is coeditor (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) of a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead titled Racist Traces and Other Writings: European Pedigrees/African Contagions. Her articles have appeared in Qui Parle, the Black Scholar, and Women and Performance.
Candace Moore is a PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at UCLA. She will join the Screen Arts and Cultures faculty at the University of Michigan in fall 2009. Moore’s articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Production Studies, Televising Queer Women, and Reading The L Word. Moore has published extensively as a media critic for Girlfriends and Curve magazines.
Patrick R. O’Malley is associate professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (2006), as well as essays on the relationship between Catholicism and sexuality in the works of Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. He is working on a study of nineteenth-century Irish Protestant literary representations of history.
Nicole Seymour recently received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, where she teaches courses in literary criticism, composition, and cultural studies. Her film research interests include formalism, social justice, and sound theory. She is currently developing a project on queer approaches to ecocriticism.
Susy Zepeda is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology with affiliations in Latin American and Latino studies and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation is concentrated on the political formation of lesbians of color during the social movements of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her research interests include women of color methodologies, queer historiography, and transnational relations (with emphasis on U.S. and Mexican politics). [End Page 658]
