Contributors
- Contributors
LAUREN APPLEGATE holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures with an emphasis in feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research centers on discourses of feminism, gender, desire, and sexuality in works by Hispanic women authors. She has published articles in journals such as PAMLA and the Journal of Feminist Scholarship. She currently teaches Hispanic literature and culture at San Diego State University in the department of Spanish and Portuguese.
DAVID JOHN BOYD is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Glasgow. His project seeks to reexamine Western medieval apocalyptic aesthetics alongside twenty-first-century Japanese manga, anime, and video games. Specifically by examining the afterlife of apocalyptic Arthurian romances in twenty-first-century Japanese fantasy manga and role-playing games, his dissertation explores how these media artifacts are not mere adaptations, but rather, function as thinking-machines that specifically interrogate the end of History in alternatively queered temporalities and corporealities. His work on Deleuzian queerness in Japanese anime will appear in the forthcoming Intellect journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. While his academic interests include aesthetic theory, continental philosophy, and media studies, he is still an avid otaku and remains active in many different [End Page 288] fan communities, annually presenting his research at local and international anime conventions as well as participating in fan art and cosplay events.
CHERYL D. EDELSON is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts Division at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Her research and teaching interests include American Literature, the Literary Gothic, Film and Television Studies, and Popular Culture. Cheryl’s recent publications include “Talkin’ ‘bout Some Heisenberg: Experimenting with the Mad Scientist” in The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Character, Narrative, and Ethics on MacFarland Press and “Reclaiming Plots: Albert Wendt’s ‘Prospecting’ and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s Ola Na Iwi as Postcolonial Gothic” in Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence, and Degeneration in the Re-imagined Nineteenth Century on Rodopi Press.
SANGITA GOPAL is associate professor of cinema studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of Conjugations: Marriage and Film Form in New Bollywood Cinema (U of Chicago P, 2012); and coeditor of Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Film Music (U of Minnesota P, 2008); and “The Fourth Screen”: Intermedia in South Asia (Routledge, 2013).
KATHERINE KINNEY is an associate dean of Arts and Humanities and an associate professor of English at the University of California Riverside, where she teaches courses in twentieth-century American literature and film. The author of Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2000), she is currently writing a book entitled The Shock of Freedom: Acting, the Movies and the 1960s. Her article “The Resonance of Brando’s Voice” recently appeared in a special issue on voice studies in the journal Postmodern Culture.
IMKE MEYER serves as director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At UIC, she also holds an appointment as Professor of Germanic Studies. Imke served as president of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in 2007–2008, and at present she is the president of the Austrian Studies Association. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Austrian Studies, and she is the editor of Bloomsbury’s New Directions in German Studies book series. Imke has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and culture, and on contemporary Austrian cinema. Her most recent monograph, Männlichkeit und Melodram: Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften [Masculinity and Melodrama: Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose Fiction], appeared in 2010. [End Page 289]
HEIDI SCHLIPPHACKE is an associate professor of Germanic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on issues of gender, kinship, and aesthetics in the German Enlightenment and in post-WWII German and Austrian literature and film. She also enjoys writing on American popular and queer culture. She has published in a wide variety of journals, including Screen, The Journal of English and German Philology, The German Quarterly, and Camera Obscura, among others. She is the author of Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home and Affect in...
