Dr Gouws is a Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, U.S.A. and a Lecturer in English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. He has resident status in Australia, and lives in Canberra for several months of the year, working with Australian colleagues in the fields of male health and male studies. He serves on the editorial board of The International Journal of Family Research and Policy and on the advisory board of The Foundation for Male Studies. His recent publications include “Manhood and Mettle in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss: Male Characters Negotiating Victorian Material Culture.” The Confidential Clerk. (Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, India) and “Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-Positive Imaginative Geographies.” Oriental Interiors: Identities, Performance, Space. (John Potvin, Ed.)