About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Henry Abelove is the author of The Evangelist of Desire (1990) and of Deep Gossip (2003). In 2011 he will retire from his position as the Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English and professor of American studies at Wesleyan University. During the spring semester of 2012, he will serve as visiting professor of English at New York University.
Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003). She is coeditor, with Janet Staiger and Ann Reynolds, of Political Emotions (2010). Inspired by Public Feelings groups in Chicago, Austin, and New York, she is writing a book called “Depression: A Public Feelings Project.”
David Oscar Harvey is a Ph.D. candidate in cinema and comparative literature, University of Iowa. His work on issues of queerness and HIV/AIDS is forthcoming in Discourse and LGBT Transnational Identity within Media: Post-Colonial/ Post-Queer. His primary areas of research include experimental and documentary film and video, as well as studies of gender and sexuality.
Neil Hertz retired in 2005, after teaching in the Department of English at Cornell University and the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The End of the Line (1985) and George Eliot’s Pulse (2003) and taught, in the spring of 2011, at al-Quds University in Palestine.
Lynne Huffer is professor of women’s studies at Emory University. She is the author of Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (2010); Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia and the Question of Difference (1998); Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (1992); and numerous articles on Foucault, feminist philosophy and theory, queer theory, poststructuralism, and literature. [End Page 689]
Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995), Women of Vision (2001), F Is for Phony, coedited with Jesse Lerner (2005), and a borndigital online “video-book” about YouTube available for free at MIT Press (2011). She is the producer of the lesbian features The Watermelon Woman (dir. Cheryl Dunye; 1997) and The Owls (dir. Cheryl Dunye; 2010).
Kathryn R. Kent is professor of English and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Williams College. She is the author of Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity (2003). Her current book projects include an analysis of gender and sexuality in the Girl Scouts and the authorized biography of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Catherine Lord, an artist and writer, is professor of studio art at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (2004), Son Colibri, Sa Calvitie: Miss Translation (2007), as well as numerous journal and catalog essays on art and queer culture. She is the 2010 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal.
Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture, performance, installation, and film. Her work has exhibited in numerous venues, including the Textile Museum of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Warhol Museum, and the British Film Institute. She is based in Toronto, where she is an assistant professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University and runs FAG, a feminist art gallery with Deirdre Logue. See www.allysonmitchell.com.
Michael Moon, professor and director of American studies at Emory University, is the author of Disseminating Whitman (1991), A Small Boy and Others (1998), and Darger’s Resources (forthcoming). He is writing a study of the persistence of Fourierism in modern fiction and poetry.
Since 2008 Kristin (KP) Pepe has brought together her passions for the arts, education, and preservation through managing Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. In addition to her post at Outfest, she works in Los Angeles as an artist, curator, educator, and filmmaker. Her work has...
