About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Elizabeth B. Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance (2012) as well as numerous articles in journals such as PMLA and JEMCS. Her teaching and scholarship focus on early modern comparative literature, with an emphasis on form, culture, and the reception of antiquity in the global Renaissance.
Mel Y. Chen (melc@berkeley.edu) is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Chen is the author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012). With Dana Luciano, Chen is coeditor of a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on Queer Inhumanisms slated for 2015. Chen is also series coeditor, with Jasbir K. Puar, of a Duke transdisciplinary book series entitled Anima, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Society for Disability Studies.
Lennard J. Davis (lennard.davis@gmail.com) is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is a member of the Department of Disability and Human Development, the Department of English, and the Department of Medical Education. He is author, most recently, of The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era (2013) and editor of The Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition (2013).
Lisa Duggan (lisa.duggan@nyu.edu) is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity (2000) and The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy (2004). She is co-author with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (2006), and coeditor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest (2001). Most recently, she is coeditor with Joseph DeFilippis, Kenyon Farrow and Richard Kim of A New Queer Agenda, a special issue of The Scholar and the Feminist Online.
Margaret Fink (mlfink@uchicago.edu) is a graduate student in the English Department at the University of Chicago. Her master’s thesis, “Imagining an Idiosyncratic Belonging: Representing Disability in Chris Ware’s ‘Building Stories’,” was published in an edited collection on cartoonist Chris Ware. She’s currently working on a dissertation project about disability, race, and ordinariness in postwar American fiction.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (rgarlan@emory.edu) is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, where her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her work develops the field of disability studies in the humanities and women’s and gender studies and seeks to bring an understanding of disability issues and identities to communities inside and outside of [End Page 241] the academy. She is author of Staring: How We Look (2009) and several other books. Her current book project is Habitable Worlds: Disability, Technology, and Eugenics.
Jack Halberstam (halberst@usc.edu) is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at University of Southern California. He is author of five books including most recently The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and The End of Normal (2012), and is working on a new book titled The Wild on queer anarchy and the politics of chaos.
Cassandra Hartblay (harblay@live.unc.edu) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her article, “A Genealogy of (Post-)Soviet Dependency: Disabling Productivity” (DSQ 2014), was awarded the 2013 Irving Zola Prize for emerging scholarship in disability studies. Her dissertation, in progress, is an ethnography of disability experience in contemporary Russia.
Jennifer James (jcj@gwu.edu) is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program at George Washington University. She is author of A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II (2007) and coeditor of a special issue of MELUS on race, ethnicity, and disability with Cynthia Wu (2005). She has recently...
