Contributors
- Contributors
Caetlin Benson-Allott is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (University of California Press, 2013).
Vicki Callahan is associate professor of cinema practice in the Media Arts + Practice Division at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is the author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (Wayne State University Press, 2004) and the editor of the collection Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Wayne State University Press, 2010). Currently, she is working on a monograph on the silent-film actress and director Mabel Normand. Callahan is the author and organizer of the Feminism 3.0 website. Her interests in silent cinema, feminist theory, and digital media intersect around questions of emergent and disruptive technologies, new modes of writing, social justice, and alternative or counternarrative forms.
Kara Herold’s carefully crafted films examine the intersection of feminism and pop culture with wit and visual flair. She is an assistant professor at Syracuse University and is currently working on a multimedia comedic “live documentary” that tells the story of an artist struggling to reconcile her artistic aspirations with her work as an audiovisual technician.
Eileen R. Meehan is a professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media, as well as Interim Director of the Global Media Research Center, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her research examines the intersections of culture, money, and power in the media, using theories and methods from critical political economy and materialist cultural studies.
Candace Moore is assistant professor in screen arts and cultures and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. She has published previously in Cinema Journal, GLQ, and assorted anthologies on queer/feminist media and production cultures.
Diane Negra is professor of film studies and screen culture and head of film studies at University College Dublin. Together with Yvonne Tasker she edited Gendering the Recession (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
Deborah Tudor is associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. She attended Northwestern University and taught at DePaul University in Chicago before joining SIU in [End Page 163] 2006. Some of her journal publications include articles in Cineaction, Jump Cut, Media, Cinema Journal, and Media, Culture and Society, and she is the author of Hollywood’s Vision of Team Sports: Heroes, Race, and Gender (Routledge, 1997). She currently researches culture and digital technology, as well as the intersections of neoliberalism and media.
Alyxandra Vesey is a PhD student in media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies the relationship(s) among gender, labor, music culture, and convergence. Her work has appeared in Flow, Antenna, and In Media Res, as well as in the anthology Saturday Night Live and American TV (Indiana University Press, 2013). She also runs the blog Feminist Music Geek, contributes to Bitch magazine, and volunteers for Girls Rock Camp Madison. [End Page 164]
