William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at Louisiana State University, where he serves as the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor. He has also served as the Frank Talbott Professor at the University of Virginia and the A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University; he taught at the University of Rochester 1972-1985. He is the author of Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality (Peter Lang, 1994), The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America (Peter Lang, 2001), the senior author of Understanding Curriculum (Peter Lang, 1995), and the editor of Queer Theory in Education (LEA, 1998). He is President of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (www.iaacs.org). Bill lives in Baton Rouge with his partner Jeff Turner; he has one son (Gabriel, a "techie" working in San Francisco).