The Editors: Nelson M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in critical theory and education from The Pennsylvania State University. He is co-editor of Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness (Peter Lang, 2000) and White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (1998), winner of the Critics’ Choice Award.William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.

• Contents: Nelson M. Rodriguez: Preface: Just Queer It – William F. Pinar: Introduction: A Queer Conversation, Toward Sustainability – Elizabeth J. Meyer: «But I’m Not Gay»: What Straight Teachers Need to Know about Queer Theory – Jane L. Lehr: Beyond Nature: Critically Engaging Science to Queer Straight Teachers – Reta Ugena Whitlock: Queerly Fundamental: Surviving Straightness in a Rural Southern High School – Mary Louise Rasmussen/Jane Mitchell/Valerie Harwood: The Queer Story of «The Heterosexual Questionnaire» – Yin-Kun Chang: Beyond Soldiers in the Closet: Creating Queer Carnival and Aesthetic Dimensions in the Classroom – William F. Pinar: Punk’d – Cris Mayo: Intermittently Queer – John E. Petrovic/Jerry Rosiek: From Teacher Knowledge to Queered Teacher Knowledge Research: Escaping the Eoistemic Straight Jacket – Karen Anijar/Angelika Foerst: Snuff Curricula of Vulgar Scientism Meet the Queer Curriculum – David V. Ruffolo: Giving an Account of Queer: Why Straight Teachers Can Become Queerly Intelligible – Nelson M. Rodriguez: Queer Theory and the Discourse on Queer(ing) Heterosexuality: Pedagogical Considerations.