Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film

Notes on Contributors

245 contributors beth berila is Assistant Professor and Director of the Women’s Studies Program at St. Cloud State University. Her research explores representations of gender, race, class, and sexuality in U.S. popular culture. Her published work includes ‘‘Toxic Bodies? ACT UP’s Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation,’’ in New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. lynne dickson bruckner is Associate Professor of English at Chatham College, where she teaches courses in literature and the environment, ecofeminist literature, women and science fiction, organic gardening, and ecocritical Shakespeare. Her pedagogical publications focus on study abroad and student writing, the literature of adoption, and ecofeminism and Atwood. She is lead editor for Ecocritical Shakespeare and has published on Macbeth, Sidney’s Arcadia, and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. elizabeth henry is Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Denver where she teaches film studies. Her own films are experimental forays into the ecocritical possibilities of the image and have been screened across the country, winning various awards, including at the Humboldt International Film Festival and the Black Maria Film Festival. She has published on experimental cinema in The Independent, Moviemaker, and Film Forum. joseph k. heumann is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author, with Robin Murray, of Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema and the Edge. Their essays on ecocritical readings of genre films have appeared in Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, Studies in American Culture, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. harri kilpi is a full-time researcher and freelance critic. He teaches film studies at the University of East Anglia where he is completing his doctorate. His research interests include ecocriticism, cognitive film theory, and contemporary Hollywood cinema. He is the author of ‘‘Green Frames: Exploring Cinema Ecocritically,’’ published in WiderScreen. jennifer machiorlatti is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University where she teaches media and cultural studies , video/media production, and intercultural communication. Her published research and media art include documentary and multimedia installations , Aboriginal/First Nation and Native media, and feminist media. She has published essays on women and film, Aboriginal media, and popular culture. 246 Contributors mark minster is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His areas of research include romantic poetry, literature and environment, and religion and literature. robin l. murray is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University where she teaches courses in film and literature, women’s studies, and ecocriticism and nature writing. She is the author, with Joseph Heumann, of Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema and the Edge. Their essays on ecocritical readings of genre films have appeared in Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, Studies in American Culture , and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. tim palmer is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He regularly contributes essays on Japanese cinema to the journal Film International. He has published research on French, Asian, and classical Hollywood cinema in Cinema Journal, Studies in French Cinema, Journal of Film and Video, and Senses of Cinema. His book in progress, Brutal Intimacy: Contemporary French Cinema, is under contract at Wesleyan University Press. cory shaman is Assistant Professor at Arkansas Tech University where he teaches environmental literature and American studies courses. His work focuses on environmental literature of the American South and Southwest, with a particular emphasis on environmental justice issues and questions of ecological discourse and risk theory. rachel stein is Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Multicultural Studies at Siena College. She is the author of Shifting the Ground: American Women Writers’ Revisions of Nature, Gender, and Race; coeditor of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy; and editor of New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and nature. paula willoquet-maricondi is Associate Professor and Chair of Media Arts, and Coordinator of the Cinema Studies minor at Marist College. Her essays on ecocriticism and film have appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Green Letters, and Postmodern Culture. She is the editor of Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews and coeditor of and contributor to Peter Greenaway’s Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, revised edition. ...