Tahereh Aghdasifar is assistant professor of women's studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her research focuses on questions of sociality, opacity, and the economy.
Thomas Dai is a PhD candidate in American studies at Brown University, where his work integrates queer studies with critical ethnic studies and the environmental humanities. His first book, a collection of essays on travel, place, and identity, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. He earned his master's in fine arts from the University of Arizona and his undergraduate degree in evolutionary biology from Harvard University.
Jude Hayward-Jansen holds a PhD in English and a graduate certificate in advanced feminist studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Positioned at the intersections of queer and feminist studies, South African studies, and American/Black studies, Hayward-Jansen's book project, “Save Our Children: Queer Discourse Formation in the U.S. and South Africa, 1977–2010,” examines the role of queerness in literature...
