- About the Contributors
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many books, including Gender Trouble (1990), Bodies That Matter (1993), The Psychic Life of Power (1997), Precarious Life (2004), and most recently, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009).
Mel Y. Chen is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with research interests in feminist, critical race and queer theory, environmental and animal studies, and language. Chen’s current book manuscript, which explores questions of racialization, queering, and affective economies in animate and inanimate “life,” is titled Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, under contract at Duke University Press.
Whitney Davis is professor of history and theory of ancient and modern art at the University of California, Berkeley. Among other books, he is the author of Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis (1996), Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud’s “Wolf Man” Case (1996), Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (2010), and A General Theory of Visual Culture (2011).
Teresa de Lauretis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the editor of the “Queer Theory” issue of differences (1991) and author of numerous and widely translated books and articles, including Alice Doesn’t (1984), Technologies of Gender (1987), The Practice of Love (1994), and Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film (2008), also published in French as Pulsions freudiennes (2010).
Carla Freccero is professor of literature, feminist studies, and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also directs the Center for Cultural Studies. She is the author, most recently, of Queer/Early/Modern (2006) and is preparing a book about figures of the nonhuman animal in literature and philosophy. She works in Renaissance studies, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. [End Page 445]
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is a PhD candidate in African diaspora studies (African American studies department) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is titled “Becoming Human: Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Others in Afro-Modernity”; it illuminates Afro-Caribbean and African American film, literature, and performance art, highlighting what disrupts the animalization of blackness and human exceptionalism.
Kevin Lamb is a JD student at Yale Law School. He holds a PhD in English from Cornell University and was recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has published previously on Foucault and is coeditor, with Jonathan Culler, of Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena (2003).
Heather Love teaches English and gender studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007) and is currently at work on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman’s 1963 sociological classic, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity (“The Stigma Archive”).
D. A. Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of a number of books, including The Novel and the Police (1992), Bringing Out Roland Barthes (1992), Place for Us: Essays on the Broadway Musical (1998), and Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style (2003).
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is author of Labor’s Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action (1994), The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (2002), The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (2006), and the upcoming Economies of Abandonment.
Juana María Rodríguez is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (2003). [End Page 446]
Patrick Singy is a scholar-in- residence at Union Graduate College in the Center for Bioethics in Schenectady, NY. He holds a PhD in history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University and Columbia University. His published...