Beginning With Stigma

Heather Love teaches English and gender studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2009), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”), and the coeditor of a special issue of Representations (“Description across Disciplines”). Love has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, reading methods in literary studies, and the history of deviance studies.