Chris Roulston, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; she is also a joint appointment in the Department of French Studies and a core faculty member in Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism and in Comparative Literature at Western University. Dr. Roulston's research focuses on nonnormative gender and sexual categories to show how their representation has helped reshape our understanding of literary history from the eighteenth century to the present.