Scott Herring is an assistant professor of English and women’s studies at Penn State University. His book Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History is forthcoming. He is at work on his next project, “Another Country: Rural Stylistics and the Politics of Queer Anti- Urbanism.” His most recent publications have been featured in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2006) and Modern Fiction Studies (2006).