Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths. Her publications include Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004, 2014), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006); The Promise of Happiness (2010); On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) and Willful Subjects (2014). She is currently writing a book Living a Feminist Life and has begun a new research project on ‘Utility: the uses of use’.
Jennifer D. Carlson is a Ph.D. candidate and a Mellon-CES Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently preparing a manuscript on renewable energy development and everyday life in coastal northern Germany. She is also co-chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing in the American Anthropological Association.
Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin, and author of Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, 1999), Literature, Technology, and Modernity (Cambridge, 2004), and Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Cambridge, 2009).
Michael E. Gardiner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of numerous books, journal articles and book chapters on dialogical social theory, ethics, everyday life and utopianism, concentrating in particular on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Henri Lefebvre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
David Hendy is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Sussex, a former BBC producer, and the author of several books of media and cultural history, including most recently Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening (Profile, 2013). This was based on a 30-part BBC Radio series of the same name broadcast in 2013. In 2010, he also wrote and presented Rewiring the Mind, a five-part series for BBC Radio 3 which explored the ways in which radio, cinema, television and the Internet shaped patterns of thought when they first emerged into widespread use. He is currently completing Media and the Making of the Modern Mind, a book on the same theme for Oxford University Press.
Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. [End Page 150] He is currently working on the relationships between taste, retailing, art and design, and domestic life as part of a major research fellowship for the Leverhulme Trust. His most recent book is The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House (2014).
Margaretta Jolly is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, where she directs the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. She is Principal Investigator of Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project, partnered with The British Library. She is also author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (winner, Feminist and Women’s Studies Association UK, 2008) and editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001).
Scott McCracken teaches at Keele University. He is author of Masculinities, Modernist Fiction, and the Urban Public Sphere (Manchester University Press, 2007), and General Editor of the Collected Letters and Fiction of Dorothy Richardson (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He is currently working on a book project, titled Thinking Through Defeat: Political Failure from the Paris Commune to the Berlin Wall.
Belinda Morrissey is a lecturer in Writing and Communication at Monash University. She is the author of When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity (Routledge, 2003), and has chapters published in Millennial Cinema: Representations of Memory in Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2012), and in Geography and Memory: Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her current research considers the impact of trauma on memory, place and space.
Ben Noys is Reader in English at the University of Chichester. He is the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Culture of Death (2005), The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (2010), Malign Velocities: Accelerationism & Capitalism (2014), and editor of Communization and Its Discontents (2011).
Carolyn Pedwell is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at...
