About the Contributors

Mark Cornwall is senior lecturer in European history at the University of Dundee. He is author of The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2000) and editor of The Last Years of Austria-Hungary: A Multinational Experiment in Early Twentieth Century Europe (2002). He is researching the Czech-German relationship in the Bohemian lands during the period 1800-1950 and is writing Youth and Nationalism in the Czech Lands: A Study of Heinrich Rutha.

Lisa Duggan is associate professor of American studies and history at New York University. She is author, with Nan D. Hunter, of Sex Wars: Essays on Sexual Dissent and American Politics (1995); author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (2000); and editor, with Lauren Berlant, of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (2001). She is at work on a book about Senator Jesse Helms and U.S. political culture.

Dan Healey is lecturer in Russian history at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (2001) and editor, with Barbara Evans Clements and Rebecca Friedman, of Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (2002). He is investigating early Soviet forensic medicine and the limits of sexual utopianism.

Bruce Holsinger is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado. He is author of Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (2001) and Premodernities: Archaeology of an Avant-Garde (forthcoming), which explores the influence of medieval studies on French theoretical discourse from Georges Bataille to Pierre Bourdieu.

Regina G. Kunzel teaches history at Williams College. She is author of Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 (1993) and editor, with Jeffrey Escoffier and Molly McGarry, of "The Queer Issue: New Visions of America's Lesbian and Gay Past," a special issue of Radical History Review (1995). Her book in progress, Outlaw Desire: Prison Sexual Culture in the United States, explores the relationship of prison sexual culture to the formation of "modern" sexuality.

Jeffrey Merrick is professor of history and coordinator of LGBT studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He is editor, with Bryant T. Ragan Jr., of Homosexuality in Modern France (1996) and Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection (2001) and, with Michael D. Sibalis, of Homosexuality in French History and Culture (2001).

Tim Retzloff is on-line curator of the Web exhibition Artifacts and Disclosures: Michigan's LGBT Heritage, available at www.lgbtheritage.org. He is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, where he also works at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.

Michael D. Sibalis is associate professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He is editor, with Jeffrey Merrick, of Homosexuality in French History and Culture (2001) and is writing a history of gay Paris since 1700.

James D. Steakley teaches in the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His book The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany (1975) was the first work to acquaint an English-language readership not only with the campaign for gay rights prior to the Third Reich but with the internment of pink triangle prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. He has led seminars on gay literature at Wisconsin and as a visiting professor at the Universities of Hannover, Freiburg, and Berlin.

David Townsend is professor of medieval studies and English at the University of Toronto. He is translator of The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon (1996) and editor, with Andrew Taylor, of The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin (1998). He is editing the hagiography of the thirteenth-century Latin poet Henry of Avranches and writing a book on the intersection of disparate religious sensibilities in early-fifteenth-century Norwich.