About the Contributors

William Burgwinkle teaches medieval French and Occitan literature at Cambridge University and is a fellow of King's College. He is author of Razos and Troubadour Songs (1990), Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Trouabour Razo Corpus (1997), and Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1220 (2004) and is coeditor of Significant Others (1992).

Jean Carlomusto is associate professor of media arts at Long Island University/CW Post. She has created numerous videotapes about HIV/AIDS over the past seventeen years. She founded the Media Production Unit at Gay Men's Health Crisis and was a member of both the Testing the Limits Video Collective and DIVA TV. She co-curated the interactive exhibit Aids: A Living Archive at the Museum of the City of New York (2001). Her broadcast and internationally exhibited documentaries, L Is for the Way You Look (1990) and Shatzi Is Dying (2001), are unorthodox investigative reports on subjects that have been erased from history.

Patrick McCreery teaches the cultural politics of sexuality and family life at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. A PhD candidate in NYU's American studies program, he is completing his dissertation on Anita Bryant's 1977 campaign to repeal a gay-rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. With Kitty Krupat, he edited the anthology Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance (2001).

Emily Roysdon is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is an editor of LTTR and has exhibited works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's List Visual Art Center; the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania; the Lab in San Francisco; and space 1026 in Philadelphia.

Annette Schlichter is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Die Figur der verrückten Frau: Weiblicher Wahnsinn als Kategorie der feministischen Repräsentationskritik (2000) and coeditor of Kritische Differenzen, geteilte Perspektiven: Zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und Postmoderne (1998). Her current project, tentatively titled Troubling Straightness: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Heterosexual Subject, engages in readings of constructions and critiques of heterosexuality through queer and feminist theories and through literary texts.

Marvin J. Taylor is director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. His research interests include late Victorian queer cultures, the post-Vietnam downtown New York arts scene, and the epistemology of libraries and archives.

Martha Vicinus, Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History at the University of Michigan, has published on working-class literature, Victorian women, and the history of sexuality. She is author, most recently, of Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (2004), an analysis of same-sex desire among women that is based on unpublished archival materials, literature, court cases, and autobiographies.

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker and writer in Brooklyn, New York. His videos recently screened at the Viper Festival in Basel, at the Video Marathon at New York's Art in General, and at numerous gay and lesbian festivals. His writings about art and film have appeared in Flash Art and the Independent. His newest film, I Feel Love, is about the gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan.