The Author: William F. Pinar received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1972. He teaches curriculum theory at Louisiana State University, where he serves as the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, appointed to the faculties of education and of women and gender studies. Dr. Pinar has also served as the A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University and the Frank Talbott Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality (Peter Lang, 1994), Understanding Curriculum (Peter Lang, 1995), and the editor of Contemporary Curriculum Discourses: Twenty Years of 'JCT' (Peter Lang, 1999).