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  • About the contributors

Gerry Canavan is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at Marquette University, specialising in sf. His first book, Octavia E. Butler, has just been published in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series at University of Illinois Press.

Richard J. Leskosky is a former president of the Society for Animation Studies and a former Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Although retired from the University of Illinois, he continues researching and writing on animation, genre in film and animation, and nineteenth-century motion picture devices.

Angus McFadzean studied literature at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities, and received a DPhil in the novels of James Joyce at Wadham College, University of Oxford. His thesis is a genetic and narratological study reading Joyce’s concept of epiphany as part of a compositional strategy in which epiphanies are organised into sequential narratives through a theme of transgression. His research interests include the interaction of narrative, genre and history across post-1945 cinema and literature. He currently lectures on fantastic literature of the nineteenth century with the Oxford Department of Continuing Education.

Anna McFarlane is the research assistant on the Wellcome-Trust-funded Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow and is currently researching Naomi Mitchison’s sf in a project funded by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant Award. She holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and her thesis concerned the role of gestalt psychology in William Gibson’s sf novels. She is the co-editor of Vector: The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association and Adam Roberts: Critical Essays (2016).

Bonnie McLean is a lecturer at Marquette University and teaches literature and composition courses on dystopia, art as protest, and intersections of race, gender and class in contemporary culture. Her current research focuses on dystopian texts and their treatment of women through the filter of gender.

Walter Metz is a Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University, where he teaches film, television, and theatre 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). Currently, he is drafting a book manuscript entitled Molecular Cinema, a new theoretical exploration of materialism in cinema as a way of re-thinking the relationship between science and film.

Mitch R. Murray is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida. His research and teaching interests include contemporary literature, comics, Marxism, modernism, the multi-ethnic novel, sf and utopian studies. [End Page 155]

Chris Pak is the editor of the Science Fiction Research Association’s SFRA Review and co-founder of the annual conference, CRSF: Current Research in Speculative Fictions. His research focuses on ecology, environmentalism and human-animal studies, and he has additional research interests in the digital humanities. His book, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformation and Environmentalism in Science Fiction, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2016.

Brittany Roberts is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at University of California, Riverside, where she studies Russian and Anglophone horror, sf and weird fiction. Her research engages the complex ecological relationships among humans, animals and the environment as depicted in Cold War and post-Cold War era dark speculative fictions, which she approaches through the lenses of posthumanism, speculative realism, animal studies and new materialisms in order to examine how notions of ontological difference – and the human/non-human binary in particular – are both challenged and re-inscribed by dark speculative works of the twentieth century.

Simon Spiegel is a research fellow at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. He is a collaborator in the research project Alternative Weltentwürfe: Der politisch-aktivistische Dokumentarfilm, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation. He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung and regularly writes about film in journals and daily newspapers.

Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English Literature at the University of Florida. In addition to more than 50 essays on contemporary literature and film...

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