Ann Cvetkovich is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Culture (Duke, 2003). She has also published articles relevant to her interest in public feelings in the journals Camera Obscura, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and GLQ, and in the edited collections Dancing Desires, Feminist Consequences, and Trauma at Home: After 9/11.