Michelle Durden - Not Just a Leg Show: Gayness and Male Homoeroticism in Burlesque, 1868 to 1877
Michelle Durden is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation 'Reconstruction Humor: American Social Types in Burlesque, 1865 to 1877,' addresses how the theatrical genre of burlesque helped to reconstruct and disseminate social identities destabilised by economic upheavals, racial politics, and expanding opportunities for women in the U.S. following the Civil War.
mdurden [at] ucsd.edu

Monika I. Hogan - "Still me on the inside, trapped": Embodied Captivity and Ethical Narrative in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues
Monika I. Hogan is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dissertation analyzes the recent novels of Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Chang-Rae Lee, positing that these authors have constructed narratives that aim to make ethical contact with the reader and, in so doing, to force a revision of our approach to multicultural literature. She currently teaches courses in English and Women's Studies at the California State University, San Bernardino.
nika [at] english.umass.edu

Patricia MacCormack - Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality and Becoming-Monster
is lecturer in Communication at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. She recently received her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, which won the Mollie Holman doctoral medal for best thesis. She has published mainly on Italian Horror, sexuality, feminism, and the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
Suspiria [at] telstra.com

Bianca Nielsen - "Something's Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female": Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps
Bianca Nielsen is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her PhD is expected in December 2003 and has the title 'Girls, Women, and Communities of Women in the Contemporary Horror and Thriller Genres.' Her thesis updates and adds to feminist scholarship on spectatorship and cinematic violence by examining the contemporary representation of the cultural categories of monster, hero and victim. She is also working as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, where she has designed and taught two undergraduate courses in the Visual Culture and Film and Media Studies Programs.
biancanielsen [at] xtra.co.nz

Michelle M. Sauer - Representing the Negative: Positing the Lesbian Void in Medieval English Anchoritism
Michelle M. Sauer received her Ph.D. in English from Washington State University in 2000. A medievalist, she specializes in women's devotional literature of the late Middle Ages, focusing particularly on anchoresses and gender theory. Founder of Minot State University's Gender Studies Program, she is currently Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of Gender Studies there. Author of a forthcoming critical translation of the Wooing Group & A Discussion of the Love of God, she continues to pursue a book-length project on anchoritism in late medieval England as well as articles and presentations in her fields of study.
sauer [at] misu.nodak.edu

Yael Sherman - Tracing the Carnival Spirit in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Feminist Reworkings of the Grotesque
Yael D Sherman is a second-year graduate student in the Women's Studies Ph.D program at Emory University. A Woodruff Fellow, she studies changing visions of femininity and citizenship in popular culture. She enjoys the contradictions offered by Buffy on DVD if no longer on TV.
ysherma [at] LearnLink.Emory.Edu

Kim Toffoletti - Catastrophic Subjects: Feminism, the Posthuman and Difference
I am a research associate in the School of Visual, Literary and Performance Studies at Monash University, Australia. I completed my PhD thesis, 'Transformations: Feminism and the Posthuman' in 2003 and teach in the areas of gender studies, fashion and visual culture.
Kim.Toffoletti [at] arts.monash.edu.au