brief bio

Anne McClintock is the Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at UW-Madison. She is the author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, which was republished online by the ACLS E-Humanities Book Project. McClintock has written short biographies of Olive Schreiner and Simone de Beauvoir and a monograph on madness, sexuality and colonialism called Double Crossings. She has co-edited Dangerous Liaisons with Ella Shohat and Aamir Mufti, as well as two special issues of Social Text: one titled "Sex Workers and Sex Work," and the other titled "Queer Transexions of Race, Nation and Gender."

McClintock has published over 50 articles, essays and reviews on sexualities and gender, race, nationalism and imperialism, and material and visual culture. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of prominent venues, including Critical Inquiry, Transition, Social Text, New Formations, Feminist Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian (London), The Times Literary Supplement, The Village Voice, and The Women's Review of Books, among others. Her articles and essays have been widely reprinted and anthologized both in the US and internationally.

She is currently finishing three books: a creative non-fiction book titled Skin Hunger: A Chronicle of Sex, Desire and Money (Jonathan Cape), Planet of Intimate Trespass: Sexuality, Property and Power in a Global Era (Routledge), and The Sex Work Reader (Vintage), an edited anthology. She is also working on a new book titled Paranoid Empire: Specters Beyond Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib (under contract, Duke University Press)

McClintock has been the recipient of many awards, including two MacArthur-SSRC Fellowships, and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, among others. She has been awarded 14 Artist Residency Fellowships at Blue Mountain Center, Macdowell, Yaddo, VCCA and Dorland. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Taiwanese, Japanese and Mandarin.