Cynthia Chris Editor & Author

Cynthia Chris is Associate Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She is the author of Watching Wildlife and co-editor, with Sarah Banet-Weiser and Anthony Freitas, of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting.

David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic and Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. He is also editor of The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, and co-editor with Janet Staiger of Authorship and Film.