Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of "An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures," also published by Duke University Press, and "Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism"; a coeditor of "Political Emotions"; and a former editor of "GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies."