About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Howard Chiang is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the editor of Transgender China (2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013, with Ari Larissa Heinrich), and the journal Cultural History.
Danielle Cooper is a PhD candidate at the graduate program in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University. She is interested in LGBT information organizations and queer information-based activities. Her work on the Lesbian History Archives in Brooklyn, New York, is featured in the Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader and forthcoming in Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies.
Jason Jacobs is assistant professor of French and Italian in the Department of Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Classics at Roger Williams University. He has published articles on medieval literary studies in Exemplaria, California Italian Studies and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (with Sharon Kinoshita).
Paul Morris is a pornographer. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Susanna Paasonen is professor of media studies at the University of Turku, Finland. With an interest in studies of Internet research, affect theory, popular culture, and pornography, she is most recently the author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (2011) as well as the coeditor of Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences (2010) and Networked Affect (forthcoming).
Ela Przybylo is a PhD candidate at the graduate program in gender, feminist, and women’s studies at York University, Toronto. Her work on asexuality, feminism, and the sexual imperative has been published in Sexualities, Feminism and Psychology, and Psychology and Sexuality. She is also the coeditor of a special issue of English Studies in Canada entitled “Hysteria Manifest: Cultural Lives of a Great Disorder.”
Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. Her articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, Performance Research, Theatre Survey, and Women and Performance. Her film [End Page 389] Looking for Jiro (2011) received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Takemoto is board president of Queer Cultural Center.
Stephanie Youngblood earned her doctorate in the English department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her dissertation, “Self-Involved Subjects: Testimony and Crisis in Contemporary American Literature,” looks at how the intersection of voice and the body in responses to the AIDS crisis and 9/11 reveal the participation of American poetics in current ethical and political debates on testimony and trauma. She has published on the rhetoric of embodiment in Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography and on 9/11 and lyric voice in Juliana Spahr’s poetic memoir The Transformation; she is also coeditor (with Alastair Hunt) of Against Life, a collection of essays on the turn to life in the humanities, that is under contract with Northwestern University Press. [End Page 390]
