About the Author

Kay Inckle is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology in Trinity College Dublin. Her primary academic interests include: gender and sexuality, the body and embodiment, and qualitative and creative research methodologies. She also writes fiction and has a passion for eighteenth and nineteenth century novels. She is a Reiki Master and practitioner, and lives in inner-city Dublin with her feline companion, Princess. Her publications include:(Forthcoming). Body of Evidence? Border Wars and Territory Skirmishes in the Corporeal Fixations of Sexual Identity Politics, in Jakob Hero (editor) Gender Query: Explorations of Identity, Expression, and Embodiment, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle Upon Tyne.2007. Carved in Flesh? Inscribing Body, Identity and Desire. The Journal of Lesbian Studies 11 (1-2)2006. Tragic Heroines, Stinking Lilies and Fallen Women: Love and Desire in Kate O’Brien’s “As Music and Splendour.” Irish Feminist Review 2: 56-732005: Who’s Hurting Who? The Ethics of Engaging the Marked Body. Auto/biography 13 (3): 227-248.