Jarrod Hayes received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1996. Before moving to Monash, he taught for 22 years at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Much of his research focuses on the intersection between French postcolonial studies and queer theory. His first book, Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2000. In it, he examines representations of non-normative sexualities, gender insubordination and sexual dissidence in the French-language literatures of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to argue that when North African writers include such representations, they are not just supporting sexual diversity and making the...