About the contributors
- About the contributors
Andrew Hageman is Assistant Professor of English at Luther College, where he teaches American literature, film studies and ecocriticism. He researches intersections of technoculture and ecology and has published essays on subjects ranging from Sleep Dealer and Twin Peaks to the recent book collaboration between Björk and Timothy Morton.
Dan Hassler-Forest teaches in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the University of Utrecht and is the author of Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age (2012) and Science Fiction, Fantasy and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism (2016). Beginning with the next issue, he will join the team of editors at Science Fiction Film and Television.
Bridget Kies is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches for Film Studies and LGBT+ Studies. Her research examines constructions of masculinities in television, film and fan communities. Her work has been published in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.
Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago. Along with his work on contemporary European philosophy and the history of Christian thought, he has written a trilogy on negative character traits in popular culture (Awkwardness, Why We Love Sociopaths and Creepiness). His most recent book is The Prince of this World (2016), a study of the devil.
Sean Matharoo is a PhD student of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. He currently studies Francophone and Anglophone speculative media in the contexts of speculative realism, posthumanism and ecosophy.
Josh Pearson is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. His work explores how neoliberalism and financialisation inflected gendered heroism in twentieth century sf and fantasy. He is a founding editor of The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction.
Brittany Pladek is an assistant professor of Romantic literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Stefan Rabitsch received his PhD summa cum laude in English and American Studies from Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt for his dissertation ‘Wagon Train to the stars’ and ‘Hornblower in space’: Star Trek’s Transatlantic Double Consciousness. His work places particular emphasis on the discourses and semiotics of historiography and world-building in television, film and video games.
Bob Rehak is an associate professor of film and media studies at Swarthmore College, where his research and teaching focus on fandom, animation, video games and special effects. [End Page 505]
Benjamin J. Robertson teaches genre studies, media studies and literary theory in the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. With Marie-Laure Ryan and Lori Emerson he is editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. His writing on sf, fantasy, music, media studies and other topics has appeared or is forthcoming in Amodern, Configurations, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and Science Fiction Studies. Stars Wars was the first film he ever saw.
Zara T. Wilkinson is a reference librarian at Rutgers University–Camden in New Jersey. She has presented and published on depictions of women in sf media, and in 2014 she co-organised ‘Buffy to Batgirl’, a two-day academic conference on gender in sf, fantasy and comics. [End Page 506]
