Anne McClintock
"Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism"
Friday, March 25, 1999
1:00 p.m.
6191 Helen C. White Hall
Reception: 6191 Helen C. White, 5:15 p.m.

Anne McClintock is widely known for her pioneering work at the intersections of literary studies, cultural studies, women's studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. She teaches at New York University and is the author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995) and the Scribner monographs, Simone de Beauvoir (1990) and Olive Schreiner (1991). She also co-edited Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (Minnesota UP, 1997) and Race and Queer Sexualit y (Duke UP, 1999). She is at work on two books, Skin Hunger: A Chronicle of the Sex Industry and Screwing the System: Gender and the Sex Industry .

The Border Studies Research Circle fosters the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas about intercultural encounter and transculturation in global context. In existence since 1996, its sponsors include the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the International Institute. The Steering Committee includes Susan Friedman, Alicia Kent, Mary Layoun, Rubén Medina, Neil Whitehead, and Thongchai Winichakul.