The Fat Studies Reader

About the Contributors

351 About the Contributors Lucy Aphramor, BSc. Hons., RD, is a dietitian with a HAES-promoting cardiac rehabilitation team and holds a research post at Coventry University, United Kingdom. D. Lacy Asbill received an MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University. She is the founding director of Girls Moving Forward, an education and empowerment service dedicated to ending the pervasive gender confidence gap in education. Derek Attig graduated from Beloit College in 2006 with majors in History and Women’s Studies. Derek is now a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. S. Bear Bergman (http://www.sbearbergman.com) is an author, a theater artist, and an instigator, as well as the author of Butch Is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performances. Beth Bernstein, MA, MFT, is a therapist in Oakland, California, and past host of the radio talk show Body Language: The Show About How You Relate to Your Body. Her writing has appeared in Bitch, Bust, the Health at Every Size Journal, and the anthology Bitchfest: 10 Years of Bitch Magazine. Natalie Boero, PhD, is on the sociology faculty at San Jose State University as an Assistant Professor, specializing in medical sociology, feminist theory, sociology of the body, and qualitative research methods. Deb Burgard, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, creator of the BodyPositive.com and ShowMeTheData (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ShowMeTheData/) websites, coauthor of Great Shape: The First Fitness Guide for Large Women, and columnist for the Health at Every Size Journal. She does research on the ways that everyday people across the weight spectrum integrate sustainable, self-nurturing practices into their lives. Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at Clayton State University, where she directs the Women’s Studies Program and the Master of Arts Program in Liberal Studies. Her publications focus on feminist theory, 352 About the Contributors body studies, globalization, and popular culture. Her most recent book, Jiggle: (Re) shaping American Women, was published in 2008. She continues to teach interdisciplinary courses that cut across the fields of cultural studies, women’s studies, and media studies. Charlotte Cooper is author of Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size (The Women’s Press, 1998) and Cherry (Diva, 2002). She lives and works in the United Kingdom and is the founding member of The Chubsters. More information can be found on http://www.charlottecooper.net. Elana Dykewomon has been a cultural worker and activist since the 1970s. Her books include Riverfinger Woman, Nothing Will Be As Sweet As the Taste, Selected Poems , the Jewish lesbian historical novel Beyond the Pale (which received the Lambda and Ferro-Grumley awards for lesbian fiction in 1998), and Moon Creek Road. She teaches at San Francisco State University, offers private creative writing classes for lesbians (see http://www.dykewomon.org), and is proud to live in Oakland, stirring up trouble whenever she can. Jenny Ellison is a doctoral student in history at York University in Toronto. Paul Ernsberger, PhD, is a biomedical scientist who is Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on the role of genetics in weight and the role of “yo-yo dieting” in cardiovascular disease. He is coeditor of the special issue of the Journal of Social Issues titled “Dying to Be Thin in the Name of Health: Shifting the Paradigm” and author of over one hundred peer-reviewed publications. Elena Escalera, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary’s College of California. She provided expert testimony before the San Francisco board of supervisors and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission during the passing of legislation adding weight and height to the San Francisco nondiscrimination ordinance. Amy Farrell, PhD, is Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (University of North Carolina Press, 1998). She is currently finishing a book titled Fat Shame: A Cultural History of Fat Stigma, Dieting, and the Fat Activist Movements. Christina Fisanick, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching focus on issues of female embodiment in writing pedagogy, popular culture, social medicine, academic culture, and memoir. Her most recently published works include articles on polycystic ovarian syndrome and normative femininity, the role of the female professor’s...