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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
MARY THOMPSON is an assistant professor of American and women's literature at James Madison University. She has presented on and written about representations of women's bodies in literature and popular culture.
ELAINE ROTH is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at Indiana University South Bend. Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Currently, she is co-editing Hollywood Motherhood, a collection of essays on the representation of mothers in Hollywood films.
MARGO HOBBS THOMPSON is assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History of the University of Vermont, where she teaches courses in twentieth-century art. Her essay on Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, "Finding the Phallus in Female Body Imagery" appeared in n.paradoxa 11 (January 2003). She is currently at work on a paper on George Segal's Gay Liberation (1980) and queer public space.
TERRI GINSBERG was most recently Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her articles on glbtq culture appear in Journal of Lesbian Studies, GLQ, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter. She is co-editor, with Kirsten Moana Thompson, of Perspectives on German Cinema and author of a forthcoming monograph on the ideological politics of international Holocaust film.
KAVITA DAIYA is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Theory in the Department of English and the Women's Studies Program at George Washington University, in Washington DC. Her research and teaching interests include Postcolonial Literature, Film and Theory, Transnational Feminisms, South Asian American Literature, and Visual Culture. She received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Chicago, and is currently working on a book based on original research conducted in India and England on violence and migration.
ASIA FRIEDMAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Rutgers University. Her areas of interest include gender theory, the body, perception and cognition. Her dissertation project is tentatively entitled "Sex Seen: The Socio-Optical Enactment of Sex and the SexGender Continuum." She was recently awarded a fellowship to work on the project during the 2006-2007 academic year from the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers. |