Victoria Hesford Women's Studies Program Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456 vhesford@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Victoria Hesford received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University, and her training at both the undergraduate and graduate level has been in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Hesford is currently at work on two book projects: in Feminism and Its Ghosts: the Second Wave Women's Movement and the Specter of the Feminist-as-Lesbian, she analyzes how the conjuncture of media and feminist representations of feminism during the emergent moments of the Second Wave Movement produced some of the cultural forms through which the movement has since become part of a collective cultural memory; the second project, Feminist Time Against Nation Time, co-edited with Lisa Diedrich, explores the tensions between feminism and nationalism in historical as well as contemporary times of war. In a related project, she looks at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and conceptions of citizenship and nationness during the Cold War era, particularly through the work of Patricia Highsmith.