Genders 41    2005 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS BRENDA R. WEBER is an assistant professor of Gender Studies and adjunct assistant professor of English at Indiana University. Her areas of interest include cultural history of the nineteenth century in Britain and the United States, the politics of representation and celebrity, women’s and gender studies, and studies of the body and its representation.  Her present book project is Figuring Fame:  The Woman Writer, the Body, and the Transatlantic Production of Literary Celebrity. JEFFEREY P. DENNIS is an assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches courses in mass media and popular culture. He is the author of Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Modern Television and Film (forthcoming, Haworth Press). JOHN POTVIN is Lecturer at the Centre for Visual and Media Studies, University of Toronto, and is completing a dissertation, "Looking Beyond Male Bonding: ‘The New Chivalry’ and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Corporeal Intimacy in Turn-of-the-Century Britain," at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellow and recently received the Bader Fellowship in Art History (2002-03).  His most recent and forthcoming publications include,  "Warriors, Slave Traders, and Religious Fanatics: ‘Reporting’ the Spectacle of Islamic Male Bodies in the Illustrated London News, 1890-1900," appeared in Inge Boer (ed.). After Orientalism. (Rodopi, 2003) and "Vapour and Steam: The Victorian Bath, Homosocial Health, and Male Bodies on Display" is forthcoming in the Journal of Design History. STEPHEN KNADLER is an associate professor of English at Spelman College, where he teaches US literature and cultural studies. He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (U Press of Mississippi, 2002), and his recent essays on gender and violence in the Harlem Renaissance have appeared in Modern Fiction and African American Review. Currently, he is working on an NEH-funded project exploring the transnationalism of nineteenth-century "African American" culture. ESTHER GODFREY is completing her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Her dissertation "Gender, Power, and the January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature" examines age as an important component of gender construction.  Her essay "From Governess to Girl-Bride in Jane Eyre" is forthcoming from Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 in Fall 2005. KAREN MCGARRY conducted ethnographic research among high performance Canadian figure skaters between 2000 and 2002, and she received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from York University in 2003. She currently teaches in the departments of Anthropology at both York and Trent universities in Ontario, Canada. Current Issue || Download || Editorial Board || Submission Guidelines || Recent Issues || Links & Books Views or conclusions published on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or conclusions of the editors or the editorial board. Genders Journal Campus Box 226 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 http://www.Genders.org Copyright ©2005 Ann Kibbey. All Rights Reserved. This Web Site Created by A Net Presence, Inc.