Contributors
- Contributors
Elizabeth Affuso is the Academic Director of Intercollegiate Media Studies at Pitzer College, where she also teaches. She holds a doctorate from the Department of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Her dissertation, "The Sculptural Screen: Spectatorship, Exhibition, and Hollywood in Contemporary Film/Video Art," examines the projected images created by a group of contemporary artists whose work directly engages with the mainstream film industry either through remakes and revision or through an appropriation of Hollywood's aesthetic practices. Her scholarly interests include issues of spectatorship, fandom, branding, technology, architecture, moving image moving-image media art, and reality television. Her work has been published in Jump Cut and presented at conferences such as the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and Console-ing Passions.
Olivia Banner is an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University's Humanities Research Center, where her research focuses on biopower, technology, and representation. Her current book project examines how bioinformatics and the digitization of bodies are transforming identities. Her work has appeared in Signs and Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, and a forthcoming article will appear in Identity Technologies.
Joshua Dittrich completed his doctorate in German Studies at Cornell University in 2010. He currently teaches courses in German, writing, and visual studies at the University of Toronto. His present research examines the link between racial discourse and aesthetics in the German avant-garde. [End Page 287]
Nathan Gorelick is an assistant professor of English and literature at Utah Valley University, where he studies and teaches courses on Restoration and eighteenth-century British and French literature, Enlightenment philosophy, contemporary literary theory, and Freudian psychoanalysis. His current research considers the origin of the modern novel and its relation to the logic of the unconscious, with specific attention to the works of Daniel Defoe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Marquis de Sade, and Laurence Sterne. He is also a founding member of the Buffalo Group for the Application of Psychoanalysis, the only nonclinical research circle affiliated with the École freudienne du Québec.
David Oscar Harvey is a doctoral candidate in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa. His forthcoming pieces in GLQ and LGBT Transnational Identity within Media: Post Colonial—Post Queer (ed. Christopher Pullen [Palgrave Macmillan, 2012]) address issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, as does his essay film Red Red Red, which has recently screened at a number of film festivals. He is presently completing his dissertation, "Cinematic Assemblages: An Anatomy of the Essay Film in Interwar Europe."
Barbara M. Kennedy is a former reader in Film and Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University, England, where she has taught for the past sixteen years in all areas from philosophy, film, media, and cultural studies, her specialisms in cultural and critical theory, and Deleuze and cinema. She has directed several master's programs in the Faculty of Arts, Media and Design. She has led and written the submission of the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) for 2007, when the Media Department received a four-star rating. Her research has been a cross-discipline series of work in dance, film, philosophy, cybercultural theory, and art. Her most significant publications have been Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation (Edinburgh University Press, 2000), The Cybercultures Reader (Routledge, 2000), and The Cybercultures Reader, second edition (Routledge, 2007). She convened one of the first conferences on Deleuze and the arts, entitled Immanent Choreographies (available on the web), at the Tate Modern in 2001. She has contributed to numerous journals in the field of Deleuze studies, film, cultural and critical theory, and performance theory, with her last work of 2010 on Deleuze and opera. She is currently recovering from serious illness and is taking time out from academic life, but maintaining an interest in research. She hopes to continue with her research on dance, movement, and philosophy. [End Page 288]
Erica Levin is a doctoral candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation looks at the emergence of artistic practices in the 1960s that engage directly with the news media, generating works in which television serves as a provocation for rethinking established conceptions of social life and shared experience...
