About the contributors
- About the contributors
Raffaella Baccolini teaches Gender Studies and American Literature at the University of Bologna, Forlì. She has published articles on dystopia and science fiction, trauma literature, women’s writing, memory and modernist literature. She is the author of Tradition, Identity, Desire: Revisionist Strategies in H.D.’s Late Poetry (1995), editor of the new edition of Tom Moylan’s Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (1986; 2014) and co-editor of Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination (2003), Utopia, Method, Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (2007) and Humor and Gender: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives (2014). She is currently working on the representation of 9/11 in American popular culture.
Troy Bordun recently completed his PhD in Cultural Studies at Trent University. His dissertation was about spectatorship and genre in the films of Carlos Reygadas and Catherine Breillat. He has published reviews and essays in Senses of Cinema, Film-Philosophy, Studies in European Cinema, CineAction and Synoptique. As a film-programmer for Trent Film Society, he curated large-scale exhibitions on the history of non-narrative cinema, on the history of moving-image pornography up to 1972, and on the best sf films in cinema’s history.
Catherine Constable is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Her interdisciplinary research in the field of Film-Philosophy combines film theory, philosophy (both continental and postmodern) and the detailed textual analysis of films. She is the author of Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich (2005), Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and The Matrix Trilogy (2009) and Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics (2015).
L. Timmel Duchamp is the author of two collections of short fiction, Love’s Body, Dancing in Time (2004) and Never at Home (2011), a collection of essays, The Grand Conversation (2004), and six novels, The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) (2005) and the five-volume Marq’ssan Cycle (2005–8). She has been a finalist for the Nebula and Sturgeon awards, shortlisted for the Tiptree Award several times and awarded a Special Honor for the Marq’ssan Cycle by the 2009 Tiptree jury. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The American Book Review, Extrapolation, The New York Review of Books and Strange Horizons. She is also the founder and publisher of Aqueduct Press and has edited several anthologies. A selection of her essays and fiction can be found at http://ltimmelduchamp.com.
Carl Freedman is the Russell B. Long Professor of English at Louisiana State University and the author of many articles and books, including Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000) and, most recently, Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville (2015).
Lisa Garforth is a lecturer at Newcastle University. She is a cultural and environmental sociologist who focuses on utopianism and speculation about social futures more broadly. Her research considers how fiction can help us to understand how it might feel to live in [End Page 155] different social conditions, especially those associated with sustainability and ecological philosophy. She has published on environmental utopianism in Utopian Studies and elsewhere. She is currently working on Green Utopias, which will explore cultural visions of environmental futures before and after nature.
Dan Hassler-Forest works as Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books on superhero movies, comics, adaptation studies and transmedia storytelling, and enjoys writing about critical theory, popular culture and zombies. He is currently supposed to be working on a monograph about fantastic world-building and radical politics.
Evan Hayles-Gledhill is a PhD candidate in the English Literature department at Reading University, working on a thesis examining the construction of the monster and the child as ‘deviant subjectivities’ within the gothic imagination. The aim is to trace a history of embodied identity across two centuries through these figures. Their research interests more broadly include representations of anomalous corporeality, masculinities and intertextual audience engagement.
Veronica Hollinger is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University in Ontario. She is a long-time co-editor of Science Fiction Studies, co-editor of five academic collections and of The Wesleyan Anthology of...
