About the contributors
- About the contributors
Mark Bould is Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England and co-editor of this journal. He is the author of Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2009) and Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005), co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011) and co-editor of Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009), Neo-Noir (2009) and Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison. He is an advisory editor of Extrapolation, Historical Materialism, Paradoxa and Science Fiction Studies.
Clarice M. Butkus is completing her MA in gender studies at New York University. Her thesis looks at the role of sound, music and voiceover in the construction of gender in film.
David Butler lectures in screen studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction (2002) and Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen (2009) and the editor of Time And Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who (2007). He is currently working on the archive of Delia Derbyshire.
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.
Jeff Hicks is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside whose interests include sf and fantasy, dystopian literature and cult film. He has published reviews in Science Fiction Studies and is the co-author of the Oxford Bibliographies Online entry for Blade Runner. He is currently researching the ways in which twentieth-century literature and film responded to the explosion of urban populations and the geographic territory of urban areas.
De Witt Douglas Kilgore is an associate professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003). Recent publications include a special issue of Science Fiction Studies on Octavia E. Butler, co-edited with Ranu Samantrai. He is currently working on a book examining the ways in which SETI science has gained cultural credibility through fiction and non-fiction narrative.
Nicholas C. Laudadio is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington where he teaches courses in science fiction, literary and critical theory, cultural studies and critical writing. He has published articles in Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and is currently working on When Not to Say Nothing at All: A Semiotics of Musical Invective and Singing Machines: A Science Fictional History of the Electronic Musical Instrument. [End Page 319]
Jim Leach is a professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario. His research and teaching interests include Canadian cinema, British cinema, popular cinema and film and cultural theory. He has published books on the films of Alain Tanner and Claude Jutra and on British cinema and Canadian cinema, co-edited a critical anthology on Canadian documentary films, and developed a Canadian edition of an introductory film studies textbook. His latest book is Doctor Who (2009).
Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of a number of monographs including Science Fiction (2005) and The Trauma Question (2008).
Sean McQueen is a PhD student in Comparative Literature and Culture Studies/Film and Television Studies, Monash University, researching sf adaptations and continental philosophy. His work has been published in Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique.
Marc Napolitano is an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Although his primary focus is Victorian literature, he is interested in sf studies and fandom – one of his favourite assignments is studying an episode of Star Trek in the context of writings by Machiavelli, Rousseau, Darwin and Nietzsche...
