Genders 57 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS CAEL M. KEEGAN is a Lecturer in Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University and will be Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Queer Studies at The Evergreen State College during spring 2013. His essays on queer aesthetics and the politics of mediated sexuality and gender have appeared in NeoAmericanist, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives. New work is also forthcoming in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves and in the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of California. His current book project is a cultural study of 20th century queer melodramatic performance and its political function in the postwar expansion of American democratic ideology. KATHLEEN KENNEDY is Department Head and Professor of History at Missouri State University.  She is the author of Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I and co-editor of Athena's Daughters: Television's New Woman Warriors. Her current research explores the interrelationships between gender, race, violence and trauma in early American in early American history and contemporary popular culture. BRITTANY C. SLATTON earned her PhD from Texas A&M University, College Station, and is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Southern University. Her work examines the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Currently, she is working on an interdisciplinary study on the intersectionality of masculinity and sexuality among men of color. DANIELLE BOUCHARD is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She is the author of A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University (Peter Lang, 2012).  She is currently working on a book project that examines the role of visuality in human rights discourses. SARAH E. WHITNEY directs the Women’s Studies program at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania.  Her essays have appeared in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Clues:  A Journal of Detective Fiction, and the anthology Investigating Veronica Mars.  She is currently completing a manuscript about the post-feminist gothic in contemporary American literature, and its literary depictions of sexual violence DEANNA GROSS SCHERGER is a PhD candidate in the English department at Indiana University Bloomington, studying American fiction and culture and gender studies.  She is currently working on a book about the resonance of American eugenic rhetoric in twenty-first century narratives about assisted reproductive technologies. 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.