Marcia Ochoa is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, also published by Duke University Press.
Jennifer DeVere Brody is Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play and Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, both also published by Duke University Press.

Marcia Ochoa and Jennifer DeVere Brody, special issue editors