GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Jafari S. Allen is the director of Africana Studies and the Miami Initiative on Intersectional Social Justice, as well as an associate professor of anthropology, at the University of Miami. Allen's scholarship and teaching has opened new lines of inquiry and offered reinvigorated methods of narrative theorizing in anthropology, Black diaspora studies, and feminist and queer studies. His new book—There's a Disco Ball between Us: An Ethnography of an Idea—will appear from Duke University Press in 2019. Allen is the author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black SelfMaking in Cuba (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of the special double issue of GLQ titled "Black/Queer/Diaspora." Allen is currently working on two research projects, is beginning research on a third monograph, "Structural Adjustments: Black Survival in the 1980s," and is serving as lead Co-PI on the interdisciplinary research team "Reproducing Race in Miami."

Marlon M. Bailey is an associate professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. His book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (University of Michigan Press, 2013), was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA. Some of Marlon's essays appear in Signs, Feminist Studies, Souls, Gender, Place, and Culture, and several book collections. Marlon's essay "Black Gay (Raw) Sex" appears in No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (Duke University Press, 2016), edited by E. Patrick Johnson.

Gabby Benavente is an English PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests include trans, queer, environmental, activist, and queer studies and how these fields can help imagine worlds that wrestle with legacies of violence.

Andy Campbell is an assistant professor of critical studies at USC-Roski School of Art and Design. His book "Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art" is under contract with Manchester University Press.

V Varun Chaudhry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of "transgender" in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA. V's research has been generously supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Critical Inquiry and American Anthropologist.

Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women's studies and director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Since their 2012 book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press), Chen's current project concerns intoxication's role in the interanimation of race and disability. Elsewhere, Chen has been thinking about and writing on slowness, gesture, inhumanisms, and cognitive disability and method. Chen coedits the "Anima" book series at Duke and is part of a small and sustaining queer-trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jih-Fei Cheng is an assistant professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. He has worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a cultural center, been involved in media production and curation, and participated in queer and trans of color grassroots organizations in Los Angeles and New York City. Cheng's research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. His first book manuscript tracks how the experimental videos of feminist and queer of color AIDS activists produced during the US early crisis years (1980s to early 1990s) continue to intervene into contemporary popular media, scientific conceptions, and social movements. Cheng's published writings appear in Amerasia Journal; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others.

Oliver Coates is a college supervisor in history at Cambridge University and an associate researcher at Institut des mondes africains, CNRS, Paris. His research focuses on West African society and culture, and has been published in Research in African Literatures, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and History in Africa.

Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science and former chair of the department. She has served as the deputy provost for graduate education and is the former director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. Cohen is the author of two books, Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and coeditor with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (New York University Press, 1997). Her work has been published in numerous journals and edited volumes including the American Political Science Review, GLQ, NOMOS, and Social Text. Cohen is principal investigator of two major projects: The Black Youth Project and the Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project. Her general field of specialization is American politics, although her research interests include African American politics, women and politics, lesbian and gay politics, and social movements.

Rachel Corbman is a doctoral candidate in women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969–1989," is a history of the acrimonious feminist conflicts over women's studies and gay and lesbian studies in the 1970s and 1980s.

Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities and Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English at New York University, is founding coeditor (with David M. Halperin) of GLQ. For their work on the journal they received the Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2006.

Allen Durgin, PhD, teaches writing at Columbia University in the City of New York and is a course director of University Writing: Readings in Gender and Sexuality.

Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and former coeditor of GLQ (2011–17). She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002) and Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010), both published by Duke University Press.

John S. Garrison is an associate professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College. He is author of Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance (Rout-ledge, 2014), Glass (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as coeditor of Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection (Routledge, 2015) and Making Milton: Writing, Publication, Reception (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Julian Gill-Peterson is assistant professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh. They are author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and coeditor of "The Child Now," a special issue of GLQ (2016).

Chase Gregory is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.

Sarah Haley is an associate professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA. She is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

David M. Halperin is the W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, where he is also a professor of English and women's studies. He is the author or editor of ten books, including One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (Routledge, 1990), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993), Saint Foucault (Oxford University Press, 1995), What Do Gay Men Want? (University of Michigan Press, 2007, 2009), Gay Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2009), How to Be Gay (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2012), and The War on Sex (Duke University Press, 2017). He cofounded GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, which he coedited from 1991 to 2005.

Christina B. Hanhardt is associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies.

Scott Herring is James H. Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author, most recently, of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Heather Love teaches English and gender studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2009), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin ("Rethinking Sex"), and the coeditor of a special issue of Representations ("Description across Disciplines"). Love has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, reading methods in literary studies, and the history of deviance studies.

Dana Luciano is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches courses in queer studies, environmental humanities, and nineteenth-century American literature. Recent work includes "Queer Inhumanisms," a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, coedited with Mel Y. Chen (June 2015) and Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (New York University Press, 2014), coedited with Ivy G. Wilson.

Whitney Monaghan is an assistant lecturer in film and screen studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media, and cultural studies and her research examines queer screen media. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not "Just a Phase" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

John Petrus is an assistant professor of Spanish at Grinnell College. His research focuses on Latinx intimate narratives of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Elliott H. Powell is assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research sits at the intersections of race, sexuality, and popular music. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, The Black Scholar, the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Studies, and other venues.

Nic John Ramos is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race in Science and Medicine at Brown University. He received his PhD in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California in 2017. His research examines the role reproductive politics played in sustaining the exclusion and management of poor and queer people of color in post-1965 health institutions originally designed to alleviate poverty.

Chandan Reddy is associate professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and the Program for the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches courses on racial capitalism, settler and overseas colonialism, sexuality, and US modernity. He is coeditor (with Jodi Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, and Jodi Melamed) of the Social Text special issue "Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism" (June 2018). His book Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (2011) from Duke University Press won the Alan Bray Memorial award for Queer studies from the MLA as well as the Best Book in Cultural Studies from the Asian American Studies Association, both in 2013. He is currently at work on a new book project titled "Administrating Racial Capitalism."

Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. The author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2009), he is at work on two projects: "Undocumented Desires: Film Fantasies of Latino Male Sexuality" and "Latino/U.K.: Postpunk's Transatlantic Touches."

Nayan Shah is professor of American studies and ethnicity and history at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press, 2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001). Shah was coeditor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies from 2011 to 2014.

Stephanie Anne Shelton is assistant professor of qualitative research in the College of Education at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include queer and feminist approaches to qualitative inquiry and examining intersections of genders and sexualities with other identity elements, especially in secondary education. Recent publications have appeared in Sex Education, Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and Teaching and Teacher Education.

C. Riley Snorton is professor of English and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is assistant professor of English and social, cultural, and critical theory at the University of Arizona. Her essays on contemporary literature, postcolonial and feminist theory, and Indian globalization may be found in a range of venues, including ARIEL, The Comparatist, Interventions, Qui Parle, Verge, Women and Performance, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Srinivasan is also an award-winning journalist and former magazine editor, with bylines in international publications including the New Yorker online, Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Caravan, Guernica, and Himal Southasian. More information is available from www.raginitharoorsrinivasan.com.

L. H. Stallings is professor of women's studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (University of Illinois Press, 2015), explores how black sexual cultures produce radical ideologies about labor, community, art, and sexuality. It has received the Alan Bray Memorial Award from the MLA GL/Q Caucus and the 2016 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA). It was also a 2016 finalist for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT studies.

Susan Stryker is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Arizona and founding coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Omise'eke N. Tinsley is associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and associate director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on queer and feminist, Caribbean, and African American performance and literature. In November 2018, University of Texas Press will release her Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, a black femme-inist reading of Beyoncé's Lemonade. Her recently published second monograph, Ezili's Mirrors: Black Queer Genders and the Work of the Imagination (Duke University Press, 2018), explores spirituality and sexuality in twenty-first-century black queer literature, dance, music, and film from the Caribbean and African North America. In addition to Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press, 2010), she has published articles in journals including GLQ, TSQ, Feminist Studies, Yale French Studies, and Small Axe.

Karen Tongson is associate professor of English, gender and sexuality studies, and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (New York University Press, 2011) and the forthcoming Why Karen Carpenter Matters (ForeEdge). She also has two books in progress: "Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory" (Duke University Press) and "NORMPORN: Queer TV Spectatorship after the 'New Normalcy."' Postmillennial Pop, the award-winning book series she coedits with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press, has published over fifteen titles. You can also hear Karen talk about pop culture, the arts, and entertainment on the weekly Pop Rocket Podcast, hosted by Guy Branum.

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is an associate professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He has coedited two books in English, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (New York University Press, 2009) and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (University of Texas Press, 2015), and coauthored Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018). In Spanish, he coedited Travar el Saber, or "Trans-ing Knowledge," based on narratives of trans and travesti people completing their high school degrees and attending college in Argentina (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2018). He continues work on his Santería manuscript, tentatively titled "An Instrument of the Orishas: Racialized Sexual Minorities in Santería."

Rachel Walerstein is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the University of Iowa in the Department of English. Her research interests are in masculinity studies, queer theory, affect studies, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. She is currently at work on her dissertation, "Masculine Gestures: On Imitation and Initiation in Modernism."

Mary Zaborskis is a postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her current book project explores productions of queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools established for racialized, criminalized, and disabled children. Her work has appeared in GLQ, WSQ, and Journal of Homosexuality, and she is a contributing editor at Public Books.