Contributors
- Contributors
Alan Ackerman is a professor of English at the University of Toronto. His books include Seeing Things: From Shakespeare to Pixar and Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America. Since 2005, Ackerman has served as editor of the journal Modern Drama.
Nico Baumbach is an assistant professor of film studies at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in literature from Duke University. Baumbach’s research and teaching focus on critical theory, film theory, documentary, and the intersection of aesthetic and political philosophy. Baumbach is currently working on two books: a study of cinema and politics in the work of contemporary continental philosophers Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek, and a monograph titled “The Anonymous Image”.
Marcus P. Bullock is professor emeritus in the English Department of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and honorary research associate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He works primarily in the area of Weimar culture and particularly on Ernst Jünger and Walter Benjamin, which includes collaborating as a coeditor of the Harvard edition of Benjamin’s Selected Writings. Currently Bullock is writing a book on Franz Kafka with the provisional title Kafka’s Simplicity.
Ofer Eliaz is assistant professor of film studies at Ohio University’s School of Film. His current project develops the psychoanalytic theories of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok within film studies. [End Page 276]
Maggie Hennefeld received her PhD in modern culture and media from Brown University in May 2014. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of “Humour, Play, and Games” at the University of Toronto. In the fall of 2015, Hennefeld will begin working as an assistant professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on theories of comedy, gender and sexuality, social politics, and film history. Hennefeld has published in journals including Camera Obscura, Screen, Projections, and Studies in American Humor, with a chapter forthcoming in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to D. W. Griffith. Her dissertation, “Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes,” explores the historical co-emergence of ideas of laughter and cinema as a medium, focusing on early silent slapstick films that depict female metamorphosis.
Kevin McDonald teaches in the Communications Department at Cal State Northridge. His research focuses on film theory, contemporary Hollywood, and media industries. McDonald’s work has appeared in Jump-Cut, Velvet Light Trap, and Alphaville. [End Page 277]
