January 21, 2000

New Queer-Studies Series From NYU Press Looks at Race, Sexuality, Class, and Gender; Life and Work of Woody Guthrie Inspire New Scholarship

When New York University Press kicked off its new Sexual Cultures series at last month's Modern Language Association meeting, some in attendance raised their eyebrows. With Series Q at Duke University Press, Between Men/Between Women at Columbia University Press, and the independent release of many gay and lesbian titles by other presses, was there really room for another gay-studies series?

An N.Y.U. acquisitions editor, Eric Zinner, admits that he had a