Anne McClintock is the Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is best known for her 1995 book Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, which chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Another of her popular works, Social Text, Sex Worker and Sex Work #4, published in 1993, explores the relations between race and queer sexuality by focusing on the politics of transgression in a transnational world.

Additionally, McClintock has written biographies of Olive Schreiner and Simone de Beauvoir as well as a monograph on madness, sexuality and colonialism called Double Crossings. She co-edited Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, with Ella Shohat and Aamir Mufti, as well as two special journal issues, one on sex work and one on race and queer theory in Social Text (volume 15, issues 3 and 4). McClintock has written numerous articles and reviews on sexuality, race, gender, nationalism, imperialism, pornography, photography, visual culture, and contemporary culture in a wide range of journals, including Critical Inquiry, Transition, Social Text, New Formations, Feminist Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian (London), The Times Literary Supplement, The Village Voice, and The Women’s Review of Books, among others. Her articles and essays have been widely reprinted and anthologized both in the US and internationally.

Her creative non-fiction book Skin Hunger: A Chronicle of Sex, Desire and Money is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape. Her anthology The Sex Work Reader is forthcoming from Vintage; and Screwing the System, a collection of essays on sexuality and power, is forthcoming from Routledge. She is working on a new book called Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, which has been solicited for consideration by Yale University Press.

Her plenary address will take place on Saturday afternoon at 6:00 p.m.

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