About the contributors
- About the contributors
Stacey Abbott is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007) and Angel: TV Milestone (2009), co-author with Lorna Jowett of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013), and editor of Reading Angel: The Spin-off with a Soul (2005). She is the current President of the Whedon Studies Association (2014–16) and is writing a book on twenty-first-century dystopian vampire and zombie film and television.
Matthew Cheney is a PhD student in Literature at the University of New Hampshire. He wrote introductions for Wesleyan University Press’s editions of Samuel Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, Starboard Wine and The American Shore. His fiction and essays have been published widely, and a collection, Blood: Stories, is forthcoming in 2016.
Christopher Cokinos directs the creative writing programme at the University of Arizona, where he is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty with the Institute of the Environment. A poet and nonfiction writer, he has also published critical work in Mudlark, Extrapolation, The New York Review of Science Fiction and in the collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives.
Taylor Evans is a PhD student at the University of California, Riverside, studying American literature, sf, technoculture and race theory. He is a recipient of the Sawyer Fellowship for the 2015–16 Sawyer Seminar on ‘Alternative Futurisms’. His research focuses on the way technoculture theorises race, and his thesis looks specifically at issues of white supremacy in early sf.
Grace Halden is a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a cultural historian with interest and expertise in the representations of technology, the philosophy of technology, and sf in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Grace is currently working on reactions to nuclear power in popular culture.
Nick Jones teaches film studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory (2015) and his work on contemporary blockbuster cinema has been published in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, New Cinemas and New Review of Film and Television Studies. He is currently embarking on a major project on the aesthetics of digital 3-D cinema.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a project researcher in contemporary culture studies at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Her PhD was on the definitions of humanity in sf television.
Kathleen McHugh (UCLA) is the author of Jane Campion (2007) and American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama (1999). She co-edited South Korean Golden Age Melodrama (2005) and a special issue of Signs on Film Feminisms. She has published on transnational media and film feminisms, global melodrama, [End Page 431] experimental autobiography, domesticity, and celebrity in Signs, Camera Obscura, Cultural Studies, Jump Cut, Screen, South Atlantic Quarterly and Velvet Light Trap. She is currently researching the role of mental illness in contemporary genres, from sf to police procedurals to political thrillers.
Rubén Mendoza is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside, and a full-time instructor of Chicana/o Studies in the Sociology & Ethnic Studies department at Los Angeles Valley College. His areas of study are rhetoric, critical pedagogy, aesthetics, Chicana/o Studies, Latin American studies, and post-Second World War North American sf and speculative fiction.
Lars Schmeink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany, where he is part of the international World Hobbit Project, a reception study analysing the function of fantasy in society. He teaches film and media courses at the University of Hamburg and the HarbourCity University. He is the President of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. His Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction is forthcoming in 2016.
J.P. Telotte is Professor of Film and Media Studies and former Chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Co-editor of the journal Post Script, he has published numerous books on sf film and television, among them, Replications: A ‘Robotic’ History of the Science Fiction Film (1995...
