About the Contributors

Sarah E. Chinn is assistant professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body As Evidence (2000).

Eli Clare's work appears in various anthologies and periodicals, including Victoria Brownworth's Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability and Bob Guter and John Killacky's forthcoming anthology of writing by disabled gay men. Eli is also author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999).

Michael Davidson is professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-century (1989) and Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (1997).

S. Naomi Finkelstein is a popular educator and writer who participates with people in reflections and actions regarding the intersections of such issues as the construction of "whiteness" and the body politics of queerness, fat, transgender, race, poverty, and disability. Naomi proudly lives in public housing and is part of the fight to stop the displacement of the very poor and people of color from the projects. Hir work appears in The Best Transgendered Erotica 2002, Bridges, GCN, and other journals, newspapers, and anthologies.

Catherine Lord is professor of studio art at the University of California, Irvine, as well as an artist, curator, and writer. She is currently working on an illustrated encyclopedia of the island of Dominica titled The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men.

Cris Mayo is assistant professor of educational policy studies and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research are gender and sexuality studies, the philosophy of education, and sex education.

Robert McRuer is assistant professor of English at George Washington University. He is author of The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (1997) and 2001-2 recipient of the Passing-the-Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is completing a book titled De-composing Bodies: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.

Todd R. Ramlow is adjunct professor of English at George Washington University and associate film and television editor of PopMatters.

Joanne Rendell is postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for the Research of Genetics, Biorisks, and Society at the University of Nottingham. Her Ph.D. thesis is "Decoding AIDS Biomedicine: The Possibilities of Writing Suffering." Two of her articles on AIDS writing and biomedicine are forthcoming in Critical Survey and the Journal for Medical Humanities.

Ellen Samuels is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California,Berkeley. She is editor, with Noelle Howey, of the double Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents (2000). Two of her articles on disability are forthcoming in the NWSA Journal and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

Carrie Sandahl is assistant professor in the School of Theatre at Florida State University. She is editor, with Philip Auslander, of Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (forthcoming). She is working on a book titled Americans with Disabilities Act: A Critical History of Disability and Performance since the Civil Rights Era.

David Serlin is assistant professor of history at Bard Early College in New York City and consultant in the history of medicine at the National Institutes of Health. He is coeditor of Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (1996); editor, with Katherine Ott and Stephen Mihm, of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (2002); and author of Replaceable You: Engineering the American Body after World War II (forthcoming). He is also editor and columnist for the quarterly journal Cabinet.

Patrick White is an undergraduate student in arts and law at the University of Melbourne.

Abby L. Wilkerson is adjunct professor in the Writing and Women's Studies Programs at George Washington University. She is author of Diagnosis: Difference...