About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Lauren Heintz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the English department at Tulane University. She earned her PhD in literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her work appears elsewhere in Studies in American Fiction and The Feminist Wire. She is working on a manuscript on interracial desire, queer sexualities, and gender nonconformity in nineteenth-century depictions of US slavery and race relations.
Julie Avril Minich is assistant professor in the departments of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico (2014), won the 2013–2014 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. She is completing a new book on Latina/o/x literature, compulsory able-bodiedness, and the racialization of health.
Valerie Rohy is professor and chair of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (2009), and Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (2014). She also coedited American Local Color Writing, 1880–1920 (1998).
Nishant Shahani is associate professor in the department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in queer theory and gender studies. He is author of Queer Retrosexualities: The Politics of Reparative Return (2013). He is also the author of several articles in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, GLQ, Postcolonial Studies, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World-making, and New Cinemas. He is working on a second monograph on the sexual economies of India. [End Page 287]
