Juan Antonio Suárez, B.A. (Murcia), M.A. and PhD (Indiana University). He has been a visiting lecturer at the Department of Cinema Studies-New York University. He joined the Department in 1994 and currently teaches courses on US literature. He has written on avant-garde literature and film, postmodern aesthetics, gay studies/queer theory, and film studies. He is the author of the books Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema (Indiana UP 1997) and Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday (University of Illinois Press 2007). His articles have appeared in the journals New Literary History, Journal of American Studies, and ÖZG: Österreichische Zeitung für Geschichtswissenschaften and in edited collections such as Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge 2002) and Film and Television after 9/11 (Southern Illinois University Press 2004), among others.