Heather K. Love is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2007...view moreHeather K. Love is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press, 2007). She has edited and co-edited special issues of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines,” with Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, 2016), GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (on the work of anthropologist Gayle Rubin, 2010), and New Literary History (“Is There Life after Identity Politics?,” 2000). She received her A.B. in Literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia.view less