About the Contributors

Matthew C. Gutmann teaches anthropology, ethnic studies, and Latin American studies at Brown University. His books and articles focus on change, gender, critical theory, and the Americas. He is currently writing a book on democracy and popular politics in contemporary Mexico.

David M. Halperin, coeditor of GLQ, is professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and honorary visiting professor in the School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is author, most recently, of Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (1995).

Mark Johnson is lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Hull. He is author, most recently, of Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (1997). He is now working on a critical comparative study tentatively titled Other(ed) Bodies: Towards an Anthropology of Gender and Sexual Diversity.

Peter Lyssiotis is a photomonteur and book artist in Melbourne. His works include Journey of a Wise Electron, Three Cheers for Civilization, The Harmed Circle, Feather and Prey, and From the Secret Life of Statues.

Fran Martin is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. Her dissertation focuses on the production of homosexualities in contemporary Taiwanese fiction and film.

Chantal Nadeau is associate professor of communication studies at Concordia University, where she teaches film studies, queery theory, and postcolonial studies. She is a cofounder of the Concordia Sexuality Research Project. Her book Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot is forthcoming.

David Román is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Southern California. He is author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS (1998), which received the 1999 Outstanding Research Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He is also coeditor, with Holly Hughes, of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance (1998), which received the 1999 Lambda Book Award in Drama.

Shane Vogel is a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at New York University.

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