About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Ashon T. Crawley is associate professor of religious studies and African American studies at the University of Virginia and author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2019), winner of the 2019 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society, and The Lonely Letters (2020). He is currently working on a cultural studies, gender, and sexuality history of the Hammond organ and its use in black sacred contexts, a project titled "Made Instrument: Polyphonic Intention." All his work is about alternatives to normative function and form, the practice of otherwise possibility.
Glyn Davis is a reader in screen studies at the University of Edinburgh. His forthcoming publications include "Imagining Queer Europe," a special issue of Third Text coedited with Fiona Anderson and Nat Raha; Queer Print in Europe (2021), coedited with Laura Guy; The Richard Dyer Reader (2021), coedited with Jaap Kooijman; and The Living End (A Queer Film Classic) (forthcoming 2022).
Marcie Frank is professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She has previously published on Susan Sontag and Gore Vidal. Her most recent book, The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen, was published in February 2020.
Shilpa Menon is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She works on mobilizations around transgender identity in Kerala, India.
Seth Palmer is an assistant professor of anthropology at Christopher Newport University. His historical-ethnographic scholarship engages religious publics, human-spirit relationalities, transnational rights regimes, and emergent political imaginaries in Madagascar and the broader Western Indian Ocean world. Seth is currently completing a book manuscript that considers the multiscalar entanglements between queer social worldings and spirit mediumship networks both within and beyond the Malagasy northwest.
Vaibhav Saria is an assistant professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. Their book, Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press in spring 2021. [End Page 169]
David K. Seitz is a critical geographer based in Los Angeles. His research investigates the cultural, political, and affective dimensions of geographic processes including gentrification, immigration, and queer community formation. He is assistant professor of cultural geography in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and extended faculty in the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church (2017) and recent articles in Antipode and Social and Cultural Geography.
Liza Tom is a PhD candidate in media studies at McGill University. Her research focuses on the role of nongovernmental organizations in the lives of transfeminine communities in Bangalore, India.
Ricky Varghese is a psychotherapist and art writer based in Toronto. He is a candidate in training to become a psychoanalyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and is the inaugural Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice at Ryerson University (2020–22). He is currently working on two monographs, one about suicidality, the ethics of risk/risk-taking, and the death drive, and another about sexual difference and bodily comportment as represented in the socialist realist cinema of Kerala. He is also compiling an edited collection tentatively titled "Sex and the Pandemic."
Alexa Winstanley-Smith is a graduate student in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
Fan Wu works at the intersection of performance, poetry, and criticism. You can find his writing online at Baest Journal, Aisle 4, and MICE Magazine. [End Page 170]
