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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
DIANE CADY is an Assistant Professor at Mills College. Currently she is completing a book entitled Damaged Goods: Gender and Commerce in the Canterbury Tales, which examines the links among gender ideology and aesthetic and economic value in the Canterbury Tales.
WENDY O’BRIEN is a lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University, Australia. She has research interests in feminism, queer theory and embodiment. She is the co-editor for the Transformations special issue Queering Regionality, (2003) and her essay “Que(e)rying Pornography: Contesting Identity Politics in Feminism” appeared in Third WaveFeminism: A Critical Exploration, (2004). She is currently researching contemporary feminisms and discourses of risk and self-harm associated with young women’s embodiment.
ALEXANDRA W. SCHULTHEIS is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and the Nation as Family (2004). Her current research is on human rights narratives of contemporary Tibet.
KRISTIN U. FEDDERS is assistant professor of art history in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she teaches courses in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and design, as well as American art. Her essay, "All, Very Fast—and going to the Very Dogs!: Marcus Mote's Visual Advices" appeared in Winterthur Portfolio 29 (Summer/Autumn 2004). She is currently at work on "Target, K-Mart, Real Simple and 'Design for All'" and "'A kitchen that's in love with my wife': Model Homes and Model Homemakers at the 1964/65 New York World's Fair.
DENNIS W. ALLEN is Professor of English at West Virginia University. He is the author of Sexuality in Victorian Fiction and has published articles on topics ranging from queer pedagogy to aesthetic activism in journals such as Narrative, Genders, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently working on a book on the impact of postindustrial capitalism on contemporary gay male culture.
JUDITH ROOF is the author of five books, including the forthcoming The Poetics of DNA. |