Finding Out An Introduction to LGBT Studies

Michelle A. Gibson is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in 1993 from Ohio University, where her areas of study were American Literature, Composition Research and Pedagogy, and Creative Writing. Her scholarship has continued in all three of these areas. Her most recent writing applies queer and postmodern identity theories to pedagogical practice and popular culture. She also continues to write and publish poetry. With Jonathan Alexander, she edited QP: Queer Poetry, an online poetry journal, and she and Alexander also edited a strain of JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition entitled "Queer…  More Composition(s)". With Deborah Meem, she co-edited Femme/ Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go and Lesbian Academic Couples.     Less

Jonathan Alexander is Associate Professor of English and Campus Writing Coordinator at the University of California, Irvine. His work focuses primarily on the use of emerging communications technologies in the teaching of writing and in shifting conceptions of what writing, composing, and authoring mean. Jonathan also works at the intersection of the fields of writing studies and sexuality studies, where he explores what discursive theories of sexuality have to teach us about literacy and literate practice in pluralistic democracies. He is twice the recipient of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Articles in the field of Computers and Composition Studies. His books include Literacy, Sexuality,…  More Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies and Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web; the co-edited collections Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others and Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing; and the co-authored book Argument Now: A Brief Rhetoric. Jonathan is also the general editor for the Journal of Bisexuality. �  Less

Deborah T. Meem is professor and head of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her academic specialties are Victorian literature, lesbian studies, and the nineteenth-century woman's novel. She earned a PhD from Stony Brook University in 1985. Her work has appeared in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Feminist Teacher, Studies in Popular Culture, and elsewhere. She has edited three works by Victorian novelist and journalist Eliza Lynn Linton: The Rebel of the Family (Broadview, 2002), Realities (Valancourt, 2010), and The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (Victorian Secrets, 2011). With Michelle Gibson, she has coedited Femme/Butch:…  More New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go (2002) and Lesbian Academic Couples (2005), both published by Haworth Press. With Jonathan Alexander, she wrote "Dorian Gray, Tom Ripley, and the Queer Closet" (CLCWeb 2003).  Less