Biographical note

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur's Gaze; and The Alcoholic Self . He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly , co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research , coeditor (with Michael D. Giardina) of a series of plenary volumes from the annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry , founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research , editor of three book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.