Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
James Penney is the author of After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics (2014), The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference (2012), and The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006). His work on film has appeared in the journals New Formations and Communication Theory. Currently at work on a new book project entitled The Poetic Acts of Jean Genet, he is Professor of Cultural Studies and Modern Language and Literature (French) at Trent University.
Nicola Evans lectures in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has published essays on film, literature and cultural identity in a range of journals including Screen, Discourse, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Text and Performance Quarterly, Continuum and Life Writing and is co-editor of The Literary Career in the Modern Era (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Allison Macleod teaches Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published on Irish cinema and queer representation in Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture: Tiger Tales (2014) and the journal Cinephile, and is the co-editor of Spaces of (Dis)location (2013). She is currently working on a book based on her doctoral research entitled Irish Queer Cinema (forthcoming 2017). Her research interests include gender and queer theory, cultural criticism, questions of identity, national cinema, and the representation of space and mobility in film, and she is presently developing a cross-comparative study of national queer cinemas.
Stephen Sharot is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of five books and numerous articles in the sociology of religion. In the field of popular cinema, his current research focuses on the interactions of class and gender in cross-class romance films in early cinema and Golden-era Hollywood. He has recently published in Screen, and has an essay forthcoming in the anthology Towards an Anthropology of Nation-Building and Un-Building in Israel (2015). [End Page 105]
