queer masculinities

Notes on Contributors
Richard Godbeer is Professor of History at the University of Miami,
Florida. He is the author of Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of
1692 (2004). The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New
England (1992) and Sexual Revolution in Early America (2002). He is currently
working on a book: ‘The Overflowing of Friendship’: Love Between
Men in Eighteenth Century America.
Dan Healey is Senior Lecturer in Russian history in the Department of
History, at the University of Wales Swansea. He is the author of
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and
Gender Dissent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), and coeditor
(with Barbara Evans Clements and Rebecca Friedman) of Russian
Masculinities in History and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
David Higgs, a Professor of History at University College at the
University of Toronto, Canada, has published on aspects of French,
Portugese and Brazilian social history and edited the collection, Queer
Sites: Gay Urban Histories since 1600.
Gary P. Leupp is Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of
Comparative Religion, at Tufts University, where he coordinates the
Asian Studies Program. He has taught at the University of Hawaii,
University of Michigan and Yale University. His works include Servants,
Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan (1992), Male
Colors: the Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (1996), and
Interracial Intimacy: Japanese Women and Western Men, 1543–1900
(2003), and many articles on ethnicity, gender and sexuality, criminality,
urban life and labor in early modern Japan.
Chris Mounsey is senior lecturer in English literature at King Alfred’s
College, Winchester. Author of Christopher Smart: Clown of God
(Lewisburg: Bucknell, 2001), a further biography is in progress on Daniel
Defoe. Work on gender and sexuality has been published in various journals
and the collection of essays Presenting Gender (Lewisburg: Bucknell,
2001) and Queer People (Lewisburg: Bucknell, forthcoming).
Martin Nesvig holds a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Yale
University (2004) and was a Fulbright fellow in Mexico City, where he
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