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Gerry Canavan is an associate professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in the Department of English at Marquette University, and the author of Octavia E. Butler (University of Illinois Press, 2016). He also serves as an editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television.
Luna Dolezal is a lecturer in medical humanities and philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research is primarily in the areas of applied phenomenology, philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of medicine, and medical humanities. She is the author of The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body (Lexington Books, 2015) and the co-editor of Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters (SUNY Press, 2017) and New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).
Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst is an associate professor of women's and gender studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015), and a co-editor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (with Sheila L. Cavanagh and Angela Failler, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). Her research is broadly concerned with the relationships between embodiment, (visual) culture, and power, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought.
Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman works as a research associate at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany, also lecturing there on aesthetics and phenomenology of music. He holds his PhD in film studies, having published the monograph Rising Phantasms: The Stalinist Era in Post-Soviet Film (by Russian publishing house New Literary Observer, 2015) as well as numerous essays on the history of ideas and cultural analysis. His current research focuses on the connection of musical thought with the history of science, in particular with mechanistic philosophy.
Haley Larsen is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Purdue University. Her current dissertation research focuses on the intersections between modern transatlantic literature and fin de siècle theories of electric power.
Sandra Robinson is a faculty member in The School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her current research looks at algorithmic culture, software simulation, and computational media through the concept of a "vital network."
Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and adjunct professor in medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He has written or edited more than twenty books, the most recent of which are A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Pain and Suffering (Routledge, 2014; translated into Chinese 2017). He has published a number of books focused on what he calls "the cultural of modernism," including Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture 1880–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Modernism and Popular Music (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is also the author of Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language (Minnesota University Press, 2011).
Gregory Tate is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of St Andrews. His first monograph, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830–1870 (Oxford University Press, 2012), examines the ways in which Victorian poets borrowed from, disagreed with, and helped to shape the developing scientific discipline of psychology in the mid-nineteenth century. He is currently writing his second monograph, Poetical Matter, which studies the exchange of methods, concepts, and language between poetry and the physical sciences in the nineteenth century.
Matthew Wade is a postdoctoral fellow in NTU's Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore. Matt's primary research interests lie within the sociology of science, technology, health, and morality, particularly around obligations of biocitizenship and assessments of moral worthiness. These interests are pursued in various contexts, including debates and applications of moral neuropsychology, consumer-friendly neurotechnologies, self-tracking practices, and appeals for aid through personal crisis crowdfunding. Matt also has an interest in cultural sociology, particularly via spectacles of prosumption and emotional labor. Previously, this inquiry focused on evangelical megachurches, and now is analyzed through a project on contemporary wedding rituals.
Derek Woods is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows and the Department of English and...
