About the contributors
- About the contributors
Eve Bennett is a PhD student at the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at De Montfort University, researching post-9/11 American apocalyptic television. She previously worked as the administrator and research assistant at the Brunel University Cult Film Archive.
Lewis Call is Assistant Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He teaches the history of sf. He is the author of Postmodern Anarchism and various other works about postanarchism. His current research focuses on representations of alternative sexualities in sf and fantasy film, television, novels, short stories and comic books. ‘Death, Sex and the Cylon’ is part of his forthcoming BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2012).
Ritch Calvin is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at SUNY Stony Brook. He is currently President of the Science Fiction Research Association and the media reviews editor of the SFRA Review. His work has appeared in Extrapolation, Science Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, the New York Review of Science Fiction and others.
Gerry Canavan is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University, writing his dissertation on empire, totality and transatlantic science fiction of the twentieth century under the co-direction of Fredric Jameson and Priscilla Wald. He is the co-editor (with Lisa Klarr and Ryan Vu) of Polygraph 22: ‘Ecology and Ideology’ and (with Priscilla Wald) of a special issue of American Literature on speculative fiction.
Grace L. Dillon is Associate Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of interests including Native American and indigenous studies, science fiction, indigenous cinema, popular culture, race and social justice and early modern literature. She is the editor of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) and Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (2003).
Nadine M. Knight is Assistant Professor of African American Literature at the College of the Holy Cross.
Jessica Langer is the author of Postcolonialism and Science Fiction (2011) and has published widely on postcolonial theory and sf film, literature, video games and other media. She received her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009 and teaches cinema studies at Humber College and the University of Toronto.
Katie Moylan teaches media and cultural theory at the University of Leicester and writes about the critical capacity of (primarily) US television drama across different contexts. She has also written about radio and the representation of diversity. Her book, Broadcasting Multiculturalism, is forthcoming from Intellect. She previously worked as a features journalist and arts and film reviewer across Irish print and broadcast media. [End Page 157]
Lars Schmeink is lecturer in North American studies at the University of Hamburg and a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University Berlin in the final year of his dissertation on genetic posthumanism in contemporary sf. He is co-founder and president of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (Association for Research in the Fantastic) and serves both as editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung and as managing editor of the SFRA Review. His most recent publications are two anthologies, both due early 2012: Collisions of Reality: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe (co-edited with Astrid Böger) and Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert (co-edited with Hans-Harald Müller). [End Page 158]
