About the Contributors

Kemi Adeyemi is associate professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago (2022) and coeditor of the volume Queer Nightlife (2021). Her forthcoming manual, Writing about Black Art, is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Adeyemi is founder and director of the Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary Black art.Rosario Martínez Pogar is assistant professor of queer/sexuality studies in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Traversing the disciplines of Chicanx studies and trans studies, her work maps the coordinates of an abiding transfeminine presence in Chicana lesbian/queer feminist and Chicano gay literature from the 1960s to the 2010s. Her specialization is queer Chicanx and Latinx literature and cultural production. She has published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Chicana/Latina Studies.E. L. McCallum, professor of English and film studies at Michigan State University and faculty fellow at the Center for Gender in a Global Context, wrote Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism (1999) and Unmaking “The Making of Americans”: Toward an Aesthetic Ontology (2018). She coedited three collections: The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014) and Queer Times, Queer Becomings (2011), both with Mikko Tuhkanen, and After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century (2019), coedited with Teagan Bradway. Recent essays are in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Postmodern Culture, and Camera Obscura. Her most recent essay, on queer narrative forms in Renee Gladman and Ben Marcus, appeared in Narrative and won the James Phelan prize for best essay. Her current project reexamines familiar concepts in classical film theory in light of recent insights from feminist new materialism, with particular attention to the queer aspects of these theories.Míša Stekl is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, with PhD minors in Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity and in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their dissertation, “Accursed Races: (Anti)Blackness and Queer/Trans Modernity,” explores how modern regimes of gender and sexuality are parasitic upon anti-Black hierarchies of race, drawing on studies of sexology, queer/trans theory and history, as well as Black studies. Their work has appeared in journals such as Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Rhizomes, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and South Atlantic Review.