1. The Sappho tradition: imagining lesbian literary traditions Harriette Andreadis; 2. Greek pederasty and the philosophical dialogue David DeCosta Leitao; 3. The ancient Greek pastoral lament Jay Reed; 4. Roman prose and poetry Thomas K. Hubbard; 5. Configurations of gender and sexuality in medieval Europe Karma Lochrie; 6. Male-male love in classical Arabic poetry Thomas Bauer; 7. China: ancient to modern Giovanni Vitiello; 8. From the pervert, back to the beloved: homosexuality and Ottoman literary history, 1453–1923 Abdulhamit Arvas; 9. English Renaissance literature in the history of sexuality Jonathan Goldberg; 10. How to spot a lesbian in the early modern Spanish world Sherry Velasco; 11. Cross-dressing, queerness, and the early modern stage David Orvis; 12. The libertine, the rake, and the dandy: early modern and restoration through the eighteenth century Lisa O'Connell; 13. Homobonding and the nation Peter Coviello; 14. Romanticism and Goethe's circle Robert Tobin; 15. The Gothic novel and the negotiation of homophobia Steven Bruhm; 16. Same-sex friendships and the rise of modern sexualities Christopher Castiglia; 17. African-American writing until 1930 GerShun Avilez; 18. Turn-of-the-century aestheticism and decadence Elisa Glick; 19. Black socks, green threads: on Proust and the hermeneutics of inversion Sara Danius; 20. 'This sudden silence': a brief history of the literature of Caribbean women who love women Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; 21. Modernist poetry Merrill Cole; 22. Queer, cosmopolitan Helena Gurfinkel; 23. Russian gay and lesbian literature Brian James Baer; 24. Spanish literature in the long twentieth century, 1898–2007 Gema Pérez-Sánchez; 25. French and Francophone literature Philippe C. Dubois; 26. African and African diasporic literatures Neville Hoad and Chris Dunton; 27. Notes on queer politics in south Asia and its diasporas Brinda Bose; 28. The crucible of space, time, and words: female same-sex subjectivities in contemporary Chinese-language contexts Patricia Sieber; 29. Mesoamerica mythmaking AnaLouise Keating; 30. Native American literatures Lisa Tatonetti; 31. African-American and African diasporic writing, post-1930 Robert Reid-Pharr; 32. Queer poetry in the long twentieth century Eric Keenaghan; 33. Lesbian and gay drama Sara Warner; 34. Contemporary gay and lesbian fiction in English Hugh Stevens; 35. Autobiography David Bergman; 36. Science fiction, imaginative writing, utopian literatures Darieck Scott; 37. LGBT/queer pulp fiction and mass culture Michael Bronski; 38. Children's and young adult literatures Eric Tribunella; 39. AIDS literatures Tim Dean and Steven Ruszczycky.