About the contributors
- About the contributors
Gerry Canavan is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at Marquette University. His monograph, Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler, is forthcoming in 2016.
Taylor Evans is a PhD student at the University of California, Riverside, studying American literature, sf, technoculture and race theory. His research focuses on the way technoculture theorises race, and his thesis looks specifically at issues of white supremacy in American sf.
Leimar Garcia-Siino has just completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool, having researched fantasy, metafiction, metafantasy and the works of Neil Gaiman. She is one of the organisers of the Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) annual international conference and the media review editor for the SFRA Review.
Craig Haslop is a lecturer in media at the University of Liverpool. He is currently writing a book investigating the queerness of ‘cult’ television and is researching television and film representations of the intersectionality between working-class and queer identities.
Dan Hassler-Forest is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on comics, transmedia storytelling, superhero movies, critical theory and fantastic world-building.
David M. Higgins teaches literature and composition at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, and he is the Speculative Fiction Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books. He writes about twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, and his research explores imperial fantasies during the Cold War period and beyond. His article ‘Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction’ (published in the June 2011 issue of American Literature) won the 2012 SFRA Pioneer Award for excellence in scholarship.
Ayana Jamieson is the founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network (@oeblegacy). She is a lecturer at SUNY, Empire State College and teaches interdisciplinary courses on comparative cultural mythologies and speculative fiction.
Nick Jones is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Film Studies Department at Queen Mary University of London, where he is researching the distinctive aesthetics of digital 3D cinema. He is the author of Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory (2015) and his work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and New Review of Film and Television Studies.
Lorna Jowett is a Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, where she teaches some of her favourite things, including horror, sf and television, sometimes all at once. She is co-author with Stacey Abbott of TV Horror: Investigating The Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013), author of Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan (2005) and editor of the forthcoming collection Time on TV. [End Page 315]
Roger Luckhurst teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. His most recent book is Zombies: A Cultural History (2015).
Kevin M. McGeough is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. An archaeologist who has excavated in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Turkey, he is the editor of the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research. He is also the author of a three-volume series on the reception of archaeology, called The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century (2015).
Walter Metz is a professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University, where he teaches film and television history, theory and criticism. He is the author of three books: Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (2004), Bewitched (2007) and Gilligan’s Island (2012).
Irene Morrison is a graduate student in English at the University of California Riverside, where she studies postcolonial and utopian sf. She received her Masters in English from the University at Buffalo. She serves as an elected leader and activist with UAW 2865, the union for Teaching Assistants, Tutors and Readers.
Chris Pak is editor of the SFRA Review and co-founder of the Current Research in Speculative Fictions (CRSF) conference. His Terraforming: Ecopolitics and Environmentalism in Science Fiction is forthcoming in 2016. More information, including links to articles and reviews, can be found at http://www.chrispak.wix.com.
Joshua Pearson is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of...
