Profs. Joseph Litvak and Lee Edelman (Tufts), Lecturers

Edelman is the Fletcher Professor of English literature and Chair of the English Department at Tufts University in Boston. Educated at Northwestern and Yale, Edelman is also one of the leading figures in the development, dissemination, and rethinking of queer theory, particularly in relation to the intersections of sexuality, rhetorical theory, cultural politics, and film. His most significant books are 'No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive' (2004) and 'Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory' (1993). He is currently working on a new project, provisionally entitled, 'Bad Education'.

Joseph Litvak is currently the Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University in Boston. Educated at Wesleyan University and Yale, Litvak's research has ranged widely across the spheres of Victorian literature, especially the novel, literary criticism and theory, the mass culture of the cold war, and Jewish cultural studies. His most significant books are 'Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel' (1997), which won the Perkins Prize for the year's best book on narrative in 1999, and 'Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel' (1992). He is currently working on a new project on the intersections of the cultures of post-war Jewish and queer oppression.