About the contributors
- About the contributors
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, co-author or editor of thirteen books, including the recently released Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).
Alicia Byrnes is a PhD candidate in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. She received her MA in cinema studies at New York University in 2014. Her dissertation examines female embodiment via figurations of the posthuman within contemporary sf cinema. Her research interests include feminist film theory, existential phenomenology and documentary cinema.
Shelby Cadwell is a PhD student of film and media studies at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan). Her research interests include Afrofuturism, sf dystopias and ecocriticism.
Gerry Canavan, one of the editors of this journal, is an assistant professor of twentieth-and twenty-first-century literature at Marquette University and the author of Octavia E. Butler (University of Illinois Press, 2016).
Chris Carloy is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He received his MA in cinema studies at UCLA in 2009. His dissertation examines the form, concept and experience of three-dimensionality in 1990s videogames. His research interests include issues of space and place, genre theory and history, reception and phenomenology.
Rebecca Duncan completed her DAAD-funded PhD at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen (Germany) in 2015. She currently teaches literature at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and is author of the monograph South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond (University of Wales Press, forthcoming). Her published work includes articles and book chapters on dimensions of the speculative in post-apartheid literature and film, and her current research focuses on materialist and postcolonial eco-critical approaches to contemporary African and South African fictions.
Matthew Flisfeder is an assistant professor of rhetoric and communications at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (2017) and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Film, as well as co-editor (with Louis-Paul Willis) of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (2014).
Erin Harrington is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory in the English Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is the author of Women, Monstrosity, and Horror Film: Gynaehorror (Film-Philosophy on the Margins, Routledge 2017). Her work centres on horror and the monstrous, gender and sexuality studies, popular and visual culture and theatre.
Sarah Holland is a recent graduate of Marquette University with a master's degree in [End Page 149] American and British literature. Her research interests while in coursework were twentieth-century literature and graphic novels, analysed through feminist and race theory lenses. She is currently searching for employment in higher education administration.
Michael Jarvis is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside, where he is completing a dissertation on race and irony in contemporary popular media. His work has appeared in Literature and Medicine and Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Jan Johnson-Smith is currently the academic lead at the University Centre, Sheffield College in South Yorkshire and is responsible for developing new degree programmes with teaching staff. Previously she taught film and television at Bournemouth University, specialising in authorship, narrative, mise-en-scène and post-production. Her main research interests lie in the representation of ancient myths and legends in modern texts, and the role of genre – especially war, westerns and sf/fantasy.
Janice Loreck is the author of Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Based at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, she teaches in film and screen studies. Her academic work focuses on cine-feminism, contemporary art cinema and screen violence. She is currently researching feminist fandom and viewing pleasure, with an emphasis on women's criticism online.
Malcolm Matthews has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. His research focuses on rhetorical constructions of Autism Spectrum Disorder as portrayed throughout popular culture. His related research interests include posthumanism, transhumanism, visual rhetoric, film theory and gender studies. He...
