Eliding Bisexuality in Orange is the New Black

Michelle E. Bloom is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses on French and world cinemas; comparative literature, comics and graphic novels, food studies, existentialism, the Holocaust, and France and Asia and serves as an ally to LGBTQ + students. Her academic work on bisexuality includes presentations on bisexuality in series television at the 2nd Annual Bisexuality Research Conference (September 2022, virtual) and at PAMLA (San Diego, 2019) as well as the essay, “Near Kisses: ‘L’Amour entre filles’ in Taiwanese Cinema since 2000,” published in the volume, Appel Asie Expo, 15th Lyon Asian Film Festival, Asian Connection, edited by Jean-Pierre Gimenez and Corrado Neri (2009). She is working on a piece on bisexuality in series television beyond Orange is the New Black. She has published books on Sino-French Cinemas (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2016) and on wax figures in literature and cinema (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003). Her pronouns are she/her, she identifies as bisexual and has long been active as an Event Organizer in amBi, a thriving community and bisexual social group which started in Los Angeles and now has chapters throughout the world.