About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Manuel Betancourt received his PhD in literature from Rutgers University, where he developed a project on fandom, queer literature, and Hollywood cinema. His article “The Hollywood Affair: Manuel Puig and the Queer Movie Fan,” derived from said project, was recently published in Genre. He currently writes on popular culture and LGBT media representation (www.mbetancourt.com) and is working on a book titled “Beyond Angels: HBO’s LGBT History.”
Joseph Allen Boone is professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. The author of Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (1987), Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism (1998), and The Homoerotics of Orientalism (2014), he coedited Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminism (1990) and Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations (2000). He received the MLA Crompton-Noll Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Essay of the Year in 1996.
Laura Doan is professor of cultural history and sexuality studies at the University of Manchester, England. Her research interests include the history and historiography of sex and sexuality, gender studies and queer theory, and memory studies. She is the author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War (2013) and Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture (2001).
Karen Jacobs is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of The Eye’s Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture (2001) and the editor of two English Language Notes special issues, “Photography and Literature” (2006) and “Imaginary Cartographies” (2014). She is completing two books: Afterimages: Nabokov • Sebald • Cole and Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Literary Space “after” Postmodernism.
Charlotte Kroløkke is professor with special responsibilities in cultural analyses of reproduction at the University of Southern Denmark. In her current research and writing, she focuses on how reproductive fluids and parts (eggs, placentas, and pregnant women’s urine) circulate and gain value.
Lene Myong is professor of gender studies at University of Stavanger, Norway. Her current research focuses on transnational adoption and racial formation in Scandinavia. [End Page 165]
Michael Nebeling Petersen is assistant professor at the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. His current research is about transnational surrogacy in a queer and feminist framework. His research centers questions about culture, power, and identity, most notably on gender, sexuality, race, and nation.
Jia Tan is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her doctoral degree in critical studies of cinema and television from the University of Southern California. Her articles on digital media, queer culture, and neoliberal politics have appeared in Critical Studies in Media Communication and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. [End Page 166]
