Genders 50    2009 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS CAROLE JONES teaches literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979-1999 (Rodopi, 2008) and has previously published on the subject of gender and sexuality in contemporary Scottish writing in various journals and edited collections. NISHANT SHAHANI is Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies at Washington State University where he teaches queer theory and LGBT studies to graduate and undergraduate students. He has published articles on queer pedagogy, global sexual citizenship, and American Studies in journals such as JAC and Genders. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queer Retrosexualities which examines narratives of retrospection in contemporary queer culture. KATHERINE ROMACK is an Associate Professor at the University of West Florida.  She is the co-editor, with James Fitzmaurice, of Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections (Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2006). She has also published a number of essays on seventeenth-century women writers and performance. Currently, she is at work on one monograph exploring the poetics of religious dissent in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum and another on gender and the Restoration theatre. JADE MCKAY teaches in literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. She recently submitted her PhD dissertation entitled Fictional Femininity: New Millennial Narratives of Middle-aged Womanhood. Her research draws on feminist approaches to interrogate the ideological agendas of popular literatures, as well as the preconceptions surrounding such texts. ELIZABETH PARSONS is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on popular culture texts for children as mechanisms of hegemony. She also engages with the representational politics in literature and film more broadly and is committed to feminist principles as an analytic lens. BARBARA KOZIAK is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University in New York, and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.  She is the author of "Tragedy, Citizens, and Strangers: The Configuration of Aristotelian Political Emotion," in Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle and the book Retrieving Political Emotion: Aristotle, Thumos and Gender among other works.   She is currently working on an article about the catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. MARTA WILKINSON is an Assistant Professor of English at Wilmington College where she teaches World Literature in translation and cultural studies. Her research centers on feminist and psychoanalytic studies of nineteenth century French and Russian novels and twentieth century Latin American works. She is the author of Antigone's Daughters: Family, Gender, and Expression in the Modern Novel (Peter Lang, 2008).     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 ©2006 Ann Kibbey. All Rights Reserved.