Contributors
- Contributors
Mary T. Conway is an assistant professor at Community College of Philadelphia, where she teaches English, Speech and Film courses. Her previous work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Wide Angle, The Journal of Advanced Composition Theory, Roadbike Magazine and Parallax. Her current work examines the motorcycle as a vehicle for class distinction in film and popular culture, and hybrid approaches to pedagogy.
Patrick Paul Garlinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, where he teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature. He is the author of Confessions of the Letter Closet: Epistolary Fiction and Queer Desire in Modern Spain, forthcoming in 2005 from University of Minnesota Press.
Dara E. Goldman is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she specializes in Hispanic Caribbean and Latin American literatures and cultures, gender and sexuality studies and cultural studies. She is completing a book, Out of Bounds: Charting the Rhetoric of Hispanic Caribbean Insularity, and is the author of several recent and forthcoming articles on the construction of spatiality in contemporary Hispanic Caribbean literary and cultural production. Her current work focuses on the transcultural narrativity of queer Latina literature.
William R. Handley is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West (2002) and co-editor of True West: Authenticity and the American West (2004). He is serving as president of the Western Literature Association for 2005.
Merri Lisa Johnson teaches American literature and cultural studies at Coastal Carolina University. Her edited collection on third wave feminist sexual politics, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, was published in 2002. She recently guest edited an [End Page 197] issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, addressing HBO series through a feminist lens, and she has an article on "The Sopranos" forthcoming in Feminist Studies.
Anca Parvulescu is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she is completing a dissertation on laughter in feminist theory. She has articles published or forthcoming in New Literary History and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Wendy Pearson recently completed her PhD at the University of Wollongong, where she wrote a dissertation entitled "Calling Home: Queer Responses to Discourses of Nation and Citizenship in Contemporary Canadian Literary and Visual Culture." She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She has published a number of articles on issues of sexuality, gender, race and indigeneity in Canadian culture.
Camille Robcis is a Ph.D. candidate in European Intellectual History at Cornell University. Her dissertation, "Rethinking the Family: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Problem of Kinship in Modern France, 1945-2000," explores the intersections of family law, public policy and theories of kinship that developed in France in the second half of the twentieth century.
David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently serving as the first President of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). He has written Michel Foucault (1989), Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (1994) and Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003). He has also edited Knowledges: Critical and Historical Studies in Disciplinarity (1993, with Ellen Messer-Davidow and David Sylvan) and Disciplining English (2002, with Craig Dionne). He is at work on Classic Rockers: The Cultural Significance of the Stars, under contract with New York University Press. [End Page 198]
