Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Reader

Contributors

Contributors I Eduardo P. Archetti i s Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway. His current research is on constructions of masculinity in Argentina. Daniel Balderston is Professor o f Spanis h an d Portugues e a t Tulane Universit y an d chai r o f th e Tas k Forc e o n Ga y an d Lesbia n Issues of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He specializes in Argentine literature and cultural studies. Peter Beattie i s Assistan t Professo r o f Histor y a t Michiga n State University. He specializes in the history of the Brazilian military. Rob Buffington i s Assistant Professor o f History at St. John's University. H e specialize s i n intellectua l histor y an d criminolog y i n Mexico. Sueann Caulfield is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She specializes in Brazilian women's history. Arnaldo Cruz-Malave i s Associat e Professo r o f Spanis h a t Fordham University . H e specialize s i n Puerto Rica n an d U.S. Latino studies. Donna J. Guy i s Professo r o f Histor y a t th e Universit y o f Arizona an d president of the Conference o n Latin American Histor y (CLAH). She specializes in women's history and economic history. Roger N. Lancaster is Associate Professor o f Anthropology at George Mason University. He is currently working on a book on the queer body. Francine Masiello is Professo r o f Spanis h an d Comparativ e Literature at the University o f California, Berkeley . She specializes in Argentine literatur e an d culture , especially o f th e nineteent h centur y and the avant-garde. Nina Menendez i s Assistan t Professo r o f Spanis h a t th e University o f Florida , specializin g i n early-twentieth-centur y Cuba n women's writing. Sylvia Molloy i s Albert Schweitze r Professo r o f Spanis h an d Comparative Literature at New York University. Her current research is on gender and sexuality studies of decadence in late-nineteenth-century Spanish American literature. Oscar Montero i s Associate Professo r o f Spanis h a t the Cit y University of Ne w York . H e specialize s i n Spanish-America n modernismo and contemporary Cuban literature and cultural studies. 278 • Contributors * 27 9 Jose Quiroga i s Associat e Professo r o f Spanis h a t Georg e Washington University. He is currently working on a book on homosexuality an d th e Cuba n Revolution , an d anothe r o n Lati n American poetry. Ben Sifuentes Jdureguiteaches Spanish at Wesley a n University. He is finishing a book entitled "Facing Masculinity: Gender, Performativity , Transvestism in Contemporary Latin American Literature." Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano is Associate Professor o f Spanish at Stanford University , specializing in sexuality studies on both Mexican and U.S. Latino literature and culture. ...