Rachel Adams: Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature. B.A, University of California, Berkeley (1990); M.A., University of Michigan (1992); Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (1997). Professor Adams specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, media studies, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, and disability studies. For three years she served as Managing Editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. Currently, she is working on a book-length study of the representation of the "freak" in American literary and visual culture. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Literature, Camera Obscura, and Signs; as well as an edited collection, Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body.