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Faculty Notes Harry M. Benshoff is the author of Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Manchester UP), and co-editor of Queer Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge). His current research focuses on the historical intersection of sexuality and late 1960s film genre. Marilyn Morris has authored The British Monarchy and the French Revolution (Yale UP) and articles on the royal family and family values (Journal of Family History), treatment of sexuality in world civilization textbooks (World History Bulletin), eighteenth-century debates over credit and debt (Journal of British Studies), pornographic representations of adultery trials in the 1790s (British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies), and transgendered perspectives on premodern sexualities (Studies in English Literature). Her current research investigates the tensions between public and private moral conventions in eighteenth-century Britain. Deborah Needleman Armintor has articles on eighteenth-century British literature appearing in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and Literature and Psychology. She is the editor of Eighteenth-Century British Erotica II, volume 2 (Pickering & Chatto). Before coming to UNT, she helped start Rice University's queer theory workshop, and was an active member of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Same-Sex Domestic Partner Benefits. Elizabeth Oldmixon specializes in congressional politics and has varied research interests that explore cultural conflict, gender issues, and religion in the context of national institutions. She authored "Culture Wars in the Congressional Theater: How the U.S. House of Representatives Legislates Morality, 1993-1998” (Social Science Quarterly). Some of her current projects include an analysis of support for gay issues and for Israel in the U.S. House and a comparison of state and federal legislator decision-making on social welfare issues. Scott Simpkins, as editor of Studies in the Novel, engineered the special issue guest edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick titled “Queerer Than Fiction.” The volume was later published in expanded book form as Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Duke UP), the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Simpkins has taught classes on Queer Theory and literature at both the undergraduate and graduate level at UNT and is interested in constructions of sexuality in English Romantic literature. Jacqueline Vanhoutte is the
author of Strange
Communion: Masculinity and Motherland in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics
(University of Delaware Press) and a number of articles on
representations of gender and sexuality in early English literature.
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