Lisa Duggan is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and is now one of the leading public intellectuals writing on questions of gender and sexuality. Duggan is currently Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism,Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon. 2003), Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity (Duke University Press, 2000), and Sex Wars: Essays in Sexual Dissent and American Politics (Routledge, 1995). She has also edited Our Monica, Ourselves, The Clinton Affair and National Interest (NYU Press, 2001). In addition she writes frequently for newspapers and magazines such as The Nation and The Village Voice, and she is currently at work on The End of Marriage: The War Over the Future of State Sponsored Love (forthcoming U of CA press, 2007).