About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Lisa Duggan is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (2000) and Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (2003). She is coauthor with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (1995, 2006), and coeditor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest (2001).
David L. Eng is professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (2010) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (2001). In addition, he is coeditor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (2003), with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (1998), and with Judith Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz of a special issue of the journal Social Text, "What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?" (2005).
Steven Epstein is the John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities and professor of sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (1996) and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (2007). He studies the contested production of biomedical knowledge, with an emphasis on the interplay of social movements, experts, and health institutions, and with a focus on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race.
Lisa Henderson is associate professor and chair in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of numerous essays on sexuality and culture and of Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production, forthcoming from New York University Press.
Neville Hoad is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (2007) and coeditor, with Karen Martin and Graeme Reid, of Sex and Politics in South Africa: The Equality Clause/Gay and Lesbian Movement/the Anti-apartheid Struggle (2005). [End Page 219]
Sharon P. Holland is an associate professor of English, African and African-American studies, and women's studies at Duke University. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. She is also coauthor of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Nativecriticism with Tiya Miles entitled Crossing Waters/Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (2006). Holland was also instrumental in the republication of Lila Karp's novel The Queen Is in the Garbage (2007), one of the first second-wave feminist novels.
Dredge Byung'chu Käng is a PhD/MPH candidate in anthropology and global epidemiology at Emory University. He is conducing ethnographic research in Bangkok on gender pluralism, social status, and Asian regionalism, with a focus on transnational relationships. He is also involved in community and HIV organizing with transgender women and sex workers in Thailand.
Regina Kunzel is a professor of gender, women, sexuality studies, and history at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Criminal Intimacy: Sex in Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (2008) and Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890 to 1945 (1993), and coedited, with Jeffrey Escoffier and Molly McGarry, a special issue of Radical History Review, "The Queer Issue: New Visions of America's Lesbian and Gay Past," in 1995. Kunzel is working on a book on the encounter of psychiatry and sexual and gender nonconformity.
Heather Love is associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007). She is currently at work on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 book Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity.
Robert McRuer is professor and deputy chair of the Department of English at George Washington University. He is author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006) and coeditor, with Abby L. Wilkerson, of "Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies," which appeared...
