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Patricia is a second year Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department. Her interests are: Race and Ethnicity, Latino/a Studies, Higher Education Attainment and Qualitative Methods. Currenlty, she is working on a qualitative paper which looks at academic success among first generation Latino students.

3rd year doctoral student in the School of Education (Language, Literacy & Culture emphasis area).

I am PhD student at Annenberg at UPenn. I am currently working on my dissertation, entitled: 'It's not about the sex': Non-monogamy and the communication of intimacy. This project explores how people use both discursive and material modes of communication to convey intimacy in non-monogamous sexual and romantic relationships. I draw from numerous sources, including interviews, ethnographic observation at lifestyle clubs, self-help texts, and media representations to better understand how some people are adopting non-monogamous lifestyles to reconcile sex, intimacy, and commitment in a cultural context that values both individual self-fulfillment and long-term romantic relationships.

Martín Meccouri is an MA candidate in American Studies with a graduate certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a B.F.A. in Writing, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College. He is unsure as to what else he should write in this bio.

Jason Mohaghegh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University. His work attends to the rise of contemporary avant-garde movements across both the Middle East and the West, tracing the transformative impact that such currents of experimental literature and philosophy bear for comparative questions of being, reality, consciousness, and aesthetics. To this end, he has completed two forthcoming works on the subject of “chaos”, respectively titled The Poetics of Chaos: Theorizing the New Postcolonial Text and The Chaotic Imagination: Emergent Literatures, of Burial and Blindness. Furthermore, he is engaged with a current project on the existential dimensions of "cruelty", with an acute focus dedicated to Middle Eastern new wave poetry and its convoluted implications for the future of postmodern and posthumanist thought.

I teach and research media content, media use, opinions about media, media effects, and media literacy, especially regarding gender and violence.

R. J. Barrios is a Ph.D. student in the sociology program at UMass. His interests include space and place, gender, sexuality, and mixed methodology. He hates to write bios but is amused that he is able to refer to himself as 'he' while typing this; he hopes you are amused by that last statement as you are reading it.

Courtney Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. She specializes in rhetoric and public culture, with particular interest in feminist theory, queer theory, and visual studies. Her teaching and research emphasize popular representations of the body, especially in regards to race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship.

Hello! My name is Josh Morrison, and I am currently in my MA in Women's Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. My undergraduate degree, also from Western, is an Honours Bachelor of Music, Performance Studies (Orchestral Instrument), and I am a classical saxophone player. My research interests lie in feminist musicology, French feminism, feminist language theory, queer theory, porn (especially trans and kink), sex, sexual violence and whatever other sexy academic topics cross my path. I am a fan of science fiction, La Femme Nikita, Angela Carter and Ikea textiles. I also collect stuffed monkeys. I am extremely honoured and excited to be taking part in the Passions conference, and I look forward to arriving in Massachusetts come October.