Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Joseba Gabilondo is an assistant professor at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is finishing two books on ethnic minorities and postnationalism in Spain and Europe, which focus on the Basque case. He has published several articles on Hollywood cinema, Basque culture, and queer theory. He is also editing a monographic issue for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies on the Hispanic Atlantic. Gayatri Gopinath is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at the University of California at Davis. Her work on gender, sexuality, and South Asian diasporic culture has appeared in the journals GLQ, Positions, and Diaspora, as well as in the anthologies Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (ed. Rosemary George) and Asian American Sexualities (ed. Russell Leong). Janet R. Jakobsen is the director of the Center for Research on Women. Before coming to Barnard she was an associate professor of women’s studies and religious studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics; coauthor (with Ann Pellegrini) of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance; and coeditor (also with Ann Pellegrini) of “World Secularisms at the Millennium,” a special issue of Social Text. Her essay is part of her current book project, The Value of Freedom : Religion, Sex, and America in a Global Economy. Miranda Joseph is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She is also the coordinator of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies and the director of the Sex, Race and Globalization Project . She was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (1997–98) and a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College (1999–2000). Katie King is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland , College Park. She is currently working on a book to be entitled Methodologies across Fields of Power: Feminisms, Writing Technologies, and Global Gay Formations. She has been involved in U.S. women’s movements and lesbian and gay activism and curriculum since the early 1970s. She teaches such courses as Lesbianisms in 265 Multinational Reception, Feminism and Writing Technologies, and Nationalities, Sexualities, and Global TV. Lawrence M. La Fountain-Stokes is a Puerto Rican academic, writer, and gay activist . He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999. The title of his dissertation is “Culture, Representation, and the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora.” He is an assistant professor in the Departments of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick). William L. Leap is a professor of anthropology at American University, where he works hard to keep lgbtq studies in the university curriculum. He is the author of Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English, and editor of Public Sex/Gay Space and (with Ellen Lewin) Out in the Field. Bill Maurer is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. He is currently conducting research on alternative financial forms and globalizations. His most recent publications on the cultural logics of finance and money appear in American Ethnologist and Public Culture. Cindy Patton is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University. She is the author of several books on AIDS and on sexuality, most recently Queer Diasporas, coedited with Benigno Sánchez-Eppler, and Global AIDS/Local Context. Ann Pellegrini is an associate professor of drama at the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and coauthor, with Janet Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. She and Jakobsen have also coedited a forthcoming volume of essays on “World Secularisms at the Millennium,” a shorter version of which was published as a special issue of Social Text (fall 2000). She is coeditor of another forthcoming collection, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, and is currently completing a new solo project on performance, excess, and belonging, entitled Shameless. Chela Sandoval is an associate professor of critical and cultural theory for the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Methodology of the Oppressed as well as numerous articles that range in topic from CyberCinema to feminist global studies. Her forthcoming ABOUT...