About the Contributors

Rachel Corbman is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in women's, gender, sexuality, and disability studies. Her first book, Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is presently working on a second book, preliminarily titled Before Crip Theory, about the history of disability activism in the lesbian feminist movement.Jessica Fields is a sociologist and professor of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Along with Sarah Williams and James Gibb, Fields co-leads QueerCOVID-TO (funded by the University of Toronto [Scarborough] COVID Action Initiative Fund), a study of the mental health of queer people living in Toronto during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Fields also co-leads a study of risk in the lives of queer and racialized young women and nonbinary people in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic (funded by the Canadian Tri-Council New Frontiers in Research Foundation; Sarah Flicker, PI).Anna James is assistant professor of English at Franklin College. She is currently at work on a book manuscript about twentieth- and twenty-first-century trans poetries, with a particular focus on the textual communities, formal innovations, and broader cultural work of trans poetics. Her other recent writing considers various topics in contemporary poetry related to genre and politics.Nora Noralla is an Egyptian human rights researcher and consultant, working on different issues including sexual and bodily freedoms, and sharia and human rights. She is currently the executive director of Cairo 52 Legal Research Institute. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2657-0576.Valerie Rohy is professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (2000), Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (2009), Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (2015), and Chances Are: Contingency, Queer Theory, and American Literature (2019). Her work addresses questions of race, gender, and sexuality in American literature and culture.Sarah Williams is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Together with Jessica Fields and James Gibb, Williams co-leads QueerCOVID-TO. Williams's scholarship is primarily focused on midwifery and obstetrics and the relationship between racialization, medical racism, and perinatal healthcare in Mexico and Canada.