About the Contributors
Sara Ahmed is professor of race and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her book Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others will be published by Duke University Press in 2006. She has begun working on a new book, provisionally titled "Doing Diversity: Racism and Educated Subjects," as well as on a project exploring ideas about happiness in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics.
Tom Boellstorff is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous articles as well as The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (2005), winner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Award from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, and Coincidence: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Critique, which will be published by Duke University Press in 2007. He is also coeditor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (2004).
Margaret R. (aka M. R.) Daniel is a writer, sound artist, independent film/video programmer, and the former founder and director of the Women of Color Film and Video Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a former Mill Valley Film Festival Programming Associate who has also programmed work at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. Her research has concerned the impact of lesbian of color involvement in film/video exhibition in the mid-1990s. She is currently Mellon Visiting Professor of African American and Film Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
Joel David is affiliated with the University of the Philippines, where he was founding director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute and proponent of the master's film program, and is currently a visiting professor at the School of Communication at Hallym University in Korea. He is the author of several books, including Fields of Vision: Critical Applications in Recent Philippine Cinema (1995), and is a winner of the Manila Critics Circle's National Book Award. He holds an MA (on a Fulbright scholarship) and a PhD in cinema studies from New York University. [End Page 659]
Laura Doan is professor of cultural history and sexuality studies at the University of Manchester, where she teaches in English and American studies and codirects the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. With Jane Garrity, she has edited Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture (2006), which explores the range of "sapphisms" in circulation during the interwar period within cultural production. Doan is currently at work on a study of gender, sexuality, and World War I.
José Gatti is a writer, critic, and teacher at Universidade Federal de São Carlos in São Paulo, Brazil. He did his doctoral work at New York University and has published books and articles on the politics of representation in audiovisual media.
Yves Lafontaine has been editor in chief of the Montreal LGBTQ community monthly Fugues since 1994 and more recently of two other gay publications. For six years in the 1990s, he was among the organizers of Image + Nation, the Montreal gay and lesbian festival, as well as of the first film festival on AIDS in Montreal. He is also a prizewinning short filmmaker with experience in the film industry and LGBTQ community organizations.
Ragan Rhyne is a doctoral candidate at New York University's Department of Cinema Studies, where she is completing a dissertation on the economy of media production in gay and lesbian nonprofit organizations.
B. Ruby Rich, GLQ's founding film/video reviews editor, coined the term New Queer Cinema and is now completing a book of essays on that subject. She teaches in the Community Studies Department and the Social Documentation Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She thanks her students in the spring 2005 New Queer Cinema class for illuminating lessons on homosexual, transgender, and genderqueer matters. Rich is featured in the Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg documentary Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema, to be shown on IFC in summer 2006. [End Page 660]
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