Cultural Critique

Nicholas de Villiers received his PhD from the University of Minnesota's Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program in 2004. His dissertation, "Opacities: Queer Strategies," examined the public personas of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Andy Warhol. He has published essays in The French Studies Bulletin and Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory. He teaches film, literature, and gender/sexuality studies in the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at Minnesota.

Grant Farred is author of, most recently, Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (2006) and What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). His forthcoming books include Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest and Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football.

Barry Faulk is an associate professor at Florida State University, where he teaches Victorian literature and cultural studies. He is author of Music Hall and Modernity (2004). His current book project explains how the legacy of the British music hall enabled rock's cultural upward mobility.

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor of English and a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State (2003) and coeditor of Goth: Undead Subculture (2007).

Robin Truth Goodman is associate professor of English at Florida State University. Her previous publications include World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism (2004), Strange Love: Or, How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (cowritten with Kenneth J. Saltman, 2002), and Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Ruth Mayer holds the chair of American studies at the University of Hannover, Germany. Her most recent book publications are Artificial Africas: Colonial Images in the Times of Globalization (2002), Virus! Zur [End Page 193] Mutation einer Metapher (coedited with Brigitte Weingart, 2004), and Diaspora: Eine kritische Begriffsbestimmung (2005).

Adale Sholock currently works in the nonprofit sector as an anti-racist activist and educator. She is also adjunct faculty at Chatham College. This article is drawn from her current book project on the politics of sexual self-representation.

Wenying Xu is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. She is author of Ethics and Aesthetics of Freedom in American and Chinese Realism and has published articles in Modern Language Studies, boundary 2, MELUS, Victorian Literature and Culture, and LIT. Her book Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature is forthcoming. [End Page 194]