Lisa Duggan is a journalist, activist, and Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Sensationalism and American Modernity and Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy, coauthor with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, and coeditor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest. Her most recent book, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and Neoliberal Greed, was published in the book series she co-edits at University of California Press, "American Studies Now." She was president of the American Studies Association during 2014-2015.