About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Gayatri Gopinath is associate professor of gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her work in queer studies, popular culture, and the South Asian diaspora has appeared in numerous articles and anthologies, most recently in the Blackwell Companion to LGBT Studies, edited by Molly McGarry and George Haggerty (2008). She is author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005).
Peter A. Jackson, PhD, is Senior Fellow in Thai History at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he specializes in the histories of Buddhism, gender, sexuality, and globalization in modern Thailand. He is a cofounder of the Asia-PacifiQueer Network (apq.anu.edu.au/), a collaborating general editor of the Hong Kong University Press Queer Asia monograph series, and convener of the Thai Rainbow Archives Project (thairainbowarchive.anu.edu.au/).
Alice A. Kuzniar is a professor of German at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has edited Outing Goethe and His Age (1996) and authored The Queer German Cinema (2000). Her most recent book is titled Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (2006), in which she deals with shame and empathy in human-canine relations.
Brenna M. Munro is assistant professor in the English department at the University of Miami. She is working on a book manuscript titled “Queer Constitutions: Sexuality, Literature, and Imagining Democracy in South Africa.”
Julianne Pidduck is professor of communication studies at the University of Montreal. She is author of Contemporary Costume Film (2004) and a book-length study of Patrice Chéreau’s film La reine Margot (2005). She is writing a new book titled “Queer Kinship: Audiovisual Relations.”
Roya Rastegar is a doctoral candidate at the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently an associate programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival and a curatorial fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program. She was the co-director of the 2005 Santa Cruz Women of Color Film and Video Festival and has been part of programming teams at Sundance, the L.A. Film Festival, and the Arab Film Festival. [End Page 533]
