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resides. He is editor of the forthcoming two-volume project: Local
Religion in Colonial Mexico (University of New Mexico) and Religious
Culture in Modern Mexico (Scholarly Resources Press).
Katherine O’Donnell lectures at the Women’s Education, Research &
Resource Centre (WERRC) in University College Dublin. She has published
a number of articles on the Gaelic dimension to Edmund Burke’s
speeches and politics and is currently editing (with Leeann Lane and
Mary McAuliffe) The Palgrave Guide to Irish History.
Michael O’Rourke is a Faculty of Arts Fellow in the School of English
at University College Dublin. He is the co-editor (with Katherine
O’Donnell) of Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship between Men,
1550–1800 (Palgrave, 2003).
Walter D. Penrose, Jr., M. Phil., is an Adjunct Lecturer of History at
Baruch College and of Classics at Hunter College. He is a Ph.D.
Candidate in History at the City University of New York Graduate
Center. Walter is the author of ‘Hidden in History: Female
Homoeroticism and Women of a “Third Nature” in the South Asian
Past.’ Journal of the History of Sexuality 10:1 (2001): 3–39. He is currently
writing a dissertation entitled Bold with the Bow and Arrow: Amazons
and the Ethnic Gendering of Martial Prowess in Ancient Greek and Asian
Cultures. Walter is currently serving a three-year term on the Board of
Directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York City.
Helmut Puff, Associate Professor at the Department of History and the
Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, works and publishes on culture, gender, and sexuality in the late
medieval and early modern periods, primarily in German-speaking
Europe. His latest publications include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and
Switzerland, 1400–1600 (2003) and Zwischen den Disziplinen? Perspektiven
der Frühneuzeitforschung (co-edited with Christopher Wild, 2003).
George Rousseau was the Regius Professor of English at King’s College
Aberdeen and is now a member of the Faculty of Modern History in
Oxford University. His primary interest lies in the interface of literature
and medicine, for which his work has recently been awarded a threeyear
Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. The author of studies dealing with
medicine and the humanities, his most recent books are Gout: The
Patrician Malady (Yale University Press, 1998), written with the late Roy
Porter, Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003) Nervous Acts: Essays in Literature, Culture and