Brian
James Baer (Kent State University) is Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
at Kent State University. He translates works in the field of literature,
political science and business and has research interests in the
translation and study of 19th and 20th century Russian literature, the use of
discourse theory in translation studies, and the pedagogy of translation. He is
the translator of Stories by Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Not
Just Brodsky by Sergei Dovlatov. His academic works include articles
on translation and Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of
Post-Soviet Identity (Palgrave Macmillan 2009).
Chiara
Beccalossi (Birkbeck) is a Lecturer in history. She is author of Female
Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c1870–1920 (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011), editor of A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age
of Empire (Berg, 2011) with Ivan Crozier, and has published a number
of articles on history of medicine, psychiatry and sexuality in Europe.
Kirsti
Bohata (Swansea) is Lecturer in Welsh writing in English
and postcolonial theory at Swansea University and Assistant
Director of CREW (the Centre for Research into the
English Literature and Language of Wales). Her publications include Postcolonialism
Revisited: Writing Wales in English (UWP 2004; reprinted 2009)
and a recent edition of short stories by the Victorian New Woman
writer Bertha Thomas, Stranger Within the Gates: Selected Stories (Honno,
2008).
Sean
Brady (Birkbeck) is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck. He works on gender,
sexuality, politics and religion in nineteenth and early twentieth-century
Britain. He is convening editor for Palgrave Macmillan's new series 'Genders
and Sexualities in History' and has published widely on masculinity,
homosexuality and British scientific and popular culture including a
book, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913
(Palgrave Macmillan 2005 & 2009).
Peter
Cryle (Queensland) is Professor of French and Director of the Centre
for the History of European Discourses at the University of
Queensland. His has published numerous books including The
Thematics of Commitment: The Tower and the Plain (Princeton University
Press, 1985); Geometry in the Boudoir: Shifting Positions in Classical
French Erotic Narrative (Cornell University Press, 1994); The
Telling of the Act: Eroticism as Narrative in French Fiction of the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries (University of Delaware Press, 2001). He is
co-editor, with Lisa O'Connell, of Libertine Enlightenment: Sex,
Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave, 2003) and,
with Christopher Forth, of Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings
of a “Central Problem” (University of Delaware Press, 2008).
Jana
Funke (Exeter) is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.
She is the co-editor of Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture
(2011) and is currently completing a book on sexual temporalities in modernist
literature. She is also in the early stages of a co-authored monograph (with Dr
Kate Fisher) on various uses of the past in the construction of sexual
knowledge in the late 19th- and early 20th century.
Natalia
Gerodotti (Leeds Metropolitan) is Senior Lecturer in
Sociology
at Leeds Metropolitan University. She has published the edited
collection Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Genders and Sexualities (2008)
and Modernising Sexualities: Towards a Socio-Historical
Understanding of Sexualities in the Swiss Nation (2005).
Her current research explores the connections between eugenics and
politics in social policies and policy debates during the twentieth
century, with a particular focus on Switzerland.
Gert
Hekma (Amsterdam) is Professor in the Department of
Sociology
and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has
published widely on the histor and sociology of (homo)sexuality and
on contemporary gay and lesbian politics in the Netherlands.
Liat
Kozma (Hebrew University) is Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Her main research interests focus
on colonialism and nationalism in the Middle East, the study
of pre-colonial and colonial Egypt, and women, gender, and feminism
in the Middle East. She has published articles in the International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Studies of South
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and the Journal of North African
Studies.
Birgit
Lang (Melbourne) is Lecturer in German Studies at Melbourne University. She
works on genre, modernism, exile and migrant literature, contemporary
German and Austrian literature and the history of sexuality. She is CI of the
Australian Research Council project Making the Case: The Case Study
Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature (with Joy Damousi and
Katie Sutton) and has published widely on German and Austrian literature and
sexology.
Ofer Nur
(Tel Aviv University) is a Teaching Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Department
of General and Interdisciplinary Studies. Having received his PhD from UCLA,
he is currently working on a cultural history of a group of young men and
women who were some of the founders of the kibbutz movement in Palestine in the
1920s. His book Eros, community, Kibbutz: Jewish Male Fantasies
1918-1924 is forthcoming.
Leon Rocha (Cambridge University) is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Affiliated Researcher at Cambridge University's Needham Rsearch Centre and International Research Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre, Freie Universitaet Berlin. His research interests include the history of eugenics, sexology and the reproductive sciences in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, and the history of science and medicine in modern China.
Anna
Katharina Schaffner (University of Kent) is Lecturer in Comparative Literature
at the University of Kent. She works on the literature of transgression. Her
publications include a book language dissection in avant-garde, concrete and
digital poetry and Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in
Sexology and Literature, 1880-1930 (forthcoming in 2011).
Elizabeth
Stephens (Queensland) is Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of
European Discourses, University of Queensland. Her books include Queer
Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction (Palgrave
Macmillan 2009) and Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of
the Body from the Nineteenth-Century to the Present (Liverpool
University Press 2011). She has published more than a dozen articles and
chapters in edited collections on masculinity, queer theory and non-normative
bodies.
Michiko
Suzuki (Indiana University) is Associate Professor in the
Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her
first book, Becoming
Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar
Japanese Literature and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2010),
examines 1910-30s fiction by women writers in conjunction with various
discourses about love, including sexology. Her current research, on late
nineteenth to early twentieth century popular fiction, concerns the
representation of chastity and virginity, particularly in relation to
constructions of nationalism and gender difference.
Katie
Sutton (Melbourne) is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of Melbourne, where she is researching the historical
relationships between sexology and psychoanalysis. She has previously
undertaken postdoctoral research on early twentieth-century German sexual
subcultures as a DAAD fellow at the Universität Potsdam, and holds a PhD in
German Studies from the University of Melbourne.
James
Wilper (Birkbeck) is a doctoral student completing a project on 'Cross-Cultural
Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in German and English Novels, 1906-1926),
supervised by Dr Heike Bauer and Dr Joanne Leal and funded by a Birkbeck
International Research Studentship. He is on the editorial board of Birkbeck's
AHRC-funded postgraduate journal Dandelion and has published an
article on sexology, Walt Whitman and homosexual history in Critical Survey.
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