Contributors
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Drew Ayers is a Ph.D. candidate in the moving image studies program at Georgia State University. His dissertation, “Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination,” applies a theory of image vernaculars to explore the ways in which visual culture functions as a mirror that reflects contemporary attitudes toward the human, a rehearsal of the posthuman, and a staging ground for encounters between the human and the non-human. His research interests include film and visual culture studies, new media and digital culture, and theories of the nonhuman. His work has appeared in Film Criticism, Scope, In Media Res, and is scheduled to appear in a forthcoming collection on special effects.
Liz Hutter earned her doctorate in 2010 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the Department of English. Drawing on extensive archival research, her dissertation “Suspended in Uncertainty” investigates the significance of drowning as a cultural phenomenon tied to social and economic situations of risk, loss, and recovery in nineteenth-century America. She is currently a lecturer in writing studies at the University of Minnesota and a community faculty member in literature at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul.
Jess Keiser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Cornell University, where he is completing a dissertation on the interrelation of materialism, imagination, and consciousness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. [End Page 331]
James Kennaway is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease at Durham University. He has previously worked or studied at the University of Vienna, Stanford University, the Viadrina University in Frankfurt, UCLA, the Humboldt University in Berlin, King’s College, London, and LSE. His monograph Bad Vibrations: The History of Music as a Threat to Health is forthcoming.
Stephen R. Munzer is Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He practiced law in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the philosophy department at Rutgers University before moving into law teaching. Most of his published work is on moral, political, and legal philosophy. He has received awards from the American Philosophical Association and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His current interests include property, indigenous peoples, the philosophy of religion, and law and biotechnology.
Derek Risse is a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and composition at Wayne State University, whose research focuses on the intersection of rhetorical theory, new media, and animal studies.
Atia Sattar earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Her doctoral dissertation examined the intersections among medicine, literature, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century France and England. Her current research interests include science and performance, and she is currently working on a project examining the historical illustrations of germs. Her work is forthcoming in Isis.
Karen Weingarten is an assistant professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. She is currently completing a book that is tentatively titled Beyond Life and Choice: Abortion and the Liberal Individual in Modern America, which focuses on the rhetoric of abortion in early twentieth-century novels and popular culture. [End Page 332]
