About the contributors
- About the contributors
Stacey Abbott is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Angel: TV Milestone (2009), co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013) and the editor of The Cult TV Book (2010). She has published numerous articles on the vampire in film and television, as well as on special effects in contemporary sf and horror cinema. She is currently writing a book on twenty-first-century dystopian vampire and zombie films and television.
Rebecca Bartlett is currently studying at the University of Glasgow, where she is undertaking a PhD examining aesthetic conventions of badness in low budget sf and horror films from the 1940s–1960s. Her interests include classical exploitation films, badfilm and cult cinema. She is also a freelance film journalist, writing for various UK publications.
Jody B. Cutler is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at St John’s University, New York. Her research and criticism deals primarily with contemporary artists and related visual culture.
Shaun Duke is a PhD student at the University of Florida studying sf, Caribbean literature, postcolonialism and spatial theory. His dissertation examines the impact of colonial spatial policies on the development of Caribbean literature, including Caribbean sf. He currently hosts an sf and fantasy podcast, The Skiffy and Fanty Show, and blogs about genre on his personal blog, The World in the Satin Bag.
Andrew Gordon is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Florida and author of Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg (2008), as well as many essays on the films of George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis and the Wachowskis.
Marcus Harmes is a lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on early modern British history and British sf and horror. Publications include the monograph Bishops and Power in Early Modern England (2013), and a range of book chapters and articles, including pieces in Doctor Who and Race (2013) and Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith (2013). He is currently working on a book for Scarecrow Press’s Science Fiction Television series, examining the adaptation of works in Doctor Who.
Veronica Hollinger is a professor of cultural studies at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and a long-time co-editor of Science Fiction Studies. She has co-edited four collections of scholarly essays and, with her colleagues at SFS, also co-edited The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010).
Matthew Jones is a research associate in the Department of History at University College London. Working with Dr Melvyn Stokes, his current research involves collecting and preserving memories of visiting cinemas in 1960s Britain. He is also working on a monograph which locates 1950s sf cinema within its British reception contexts and, with Dr Joan Ormrod of Manchester Metropolitan University, is editing two collections on time-travel narratives in various media formats. [End Page 157]
Gozde Kilic is a doctoral student in the cultural studies programme at Trent University, Canada, since 2011. She is interested in issues surrounding authority, power and the role of the father in contemporary society. In her research, she studies the decline of the paternal function/fiction within a psychoanalytic framework in the context of Turkish politics and literature.
Shawn Malley teaches cultural and media studies in the Department of English at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He is currently writing Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Television, parts of which have been published in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture and International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.
Erik Mortenson is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. His first book, Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (2011), examines ‘the moment’ as one of the primary motifs of Beat writing. He is currently working on two new books, Ambiguous Horizons: The Figure of the Shadow in Cold War America and Translating Rebellion: The Reception of American Countercultural Texts in Turkey.
Aidan Power is a Research Fellow at the University of Bremen, where...
