About the contributors
- About the contributors
Victoria Byard is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leicester. Her thesis, which looks at children’s television fantasy drama between 1955 and 1994, is part of the AHRC-funded Spaces of Television project at the Universities of Reading, South Wales and Leicester. Her publications include a chapter on The Sarah Jane Adventures in British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future (2014), and a forthcoming article, ‘Style, Space and Seriality in Early Children’s Television Drama’, in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Shaun Duke is a PhD student at the University of Florida, studying Caribbean literature, sf, postcolonialism and spatial theory. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Extrapolation, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Strange Horizons. He can be found on his personal blog, The World in the Satin Bag and his Hugo-nominated sf/f podcast, The Skiffy and Fanty Show.
Thomas R. Feller is a life-long sf, fantasy and horror fan and film buff who lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Anita. He has written over 200 professional articles, attends sf conventions and is a regular Hugo Award voter and a member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association.
Ximena Gallardo C. is a professor of English at the City University of New York-LaGuardia and a gender and film scholar who has published and presented widely on issues of representation in popular culture. Her ‘Aliens, Cyborgs and Other Invisible Men: Hollywood’s Solutions to the Black “Problem” in SF Cinema’ appeared in SFFTV in 2013.
Susan A. George, PhD, teaches at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from Suburbs (2013) and co-editor, with Regina Hansen, of Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back (2014). Her work, focusing on the construction of gender and technology in fantastic film and television, has appeared in The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader (2008), Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History (2008), The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Post Script and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture.
Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English, affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, and director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. She is editor of Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (2000) and co-editor of Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996) and Engaging the Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture (forthcoming). She is currently at work on a book addressing gender, sexuality and Jewishness in the films of George Cukor.
Christopher Holliday has recently completed a Film Studies PhD at King’s College London. His research develops an approach to computer-animated films that elaborates upon their unique visual currencies and formal attributes, organised as a generic framework that supports their identity as a new genre of contemporary cinema. [End Page 467] He has published articles on child voice acting in animated film and television for Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, and has chapters on digital animation in the collections Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Domestic Relationships (2014) and Spaces of the Cinematic Home: Behind the Screen Door (forthcoming). He currently teaches in the Film Studies department at King’s College and at London South Bank University, and has recently been a visiting lecturer in animation at the University of Kent.
Christopher Howard graduated with a PhD in Media and Film Studies from SOAS, University of London. He currently teaches at Chongqing University, China. His research interests include animation, the regionalisation of film and media in East Asia and critical theory in Japan. His work has appeared in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, East Asian Cinemas (2008) and East Asian Stars (2014).
Rachael Kelly is a graduate of the University of Ulster, where she was awarded a Film Studies PhD in 2012, and the author of Mark Antony in Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon (2014). Although a lifelong fan of sf, with a particular interest in the depictions of masculinity in the modern sf film, her primary area...
