Cris Mayo is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at West Virginia University. Publications in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and philosophy of education include three single-authored books, Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations Among Youth in Schools (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), LGBTQ Youth and Education: Policies and Practices (Teachers College Press, 2013), Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexuality and Public School Controversies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, 2007) as well as articles in Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Educational Theory, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Policy Futures in Education, Review of Research in Education, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Mayo is currently editing the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia on Gender and Sexuality in Education and co-editing, with Mollie Blackburn, a book on queer, trans, and intersectional pedagogies.
Nelson M. Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The College of New Jersey. His current research areas span queer studies and education, critical masculinity studies, and Foucault studies. Professor Rodriguez is co-editor of the series
Queer Studies and Education (Palgrave Macmillan) and
Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education (Routledge/Taylor and Francis). His recent publications include –
Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education: An International Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan);
Educators Queering Academia: Critical Memoirs (Peter Lang);
Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education (Springer); and
Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (Peter Lang). Rodriguez’s forthcoming books include –
Queer Studies and Education: An International Anthology;
Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education: Friendship as Ascesis;
LGBTQ+ Studies: Theoretical Interventions in Curriculum and Pedagogy; and
Foucauldian Philosophy and Implications for Educational Research: Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France.