He is the author of Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West. In addition to editing The Brokeback Book, he is co-editor of True West: Authenticity and the American West. A lecturer who teaches English and gender studies at USC, Chris Freeman holds a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. He is co-editor, with James Berg, of the Lambda Award-winning collection The Isherwood Century, Conversations with Christopher Isherwood, and the Lambda finalist Love, West Hollywood. He is currently working on a longer-term project concerning the life, work and times of the gay writer Paul Monette, and editing his journals for publication.