About the contributors
- About the contributors
Stacey Abbott is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016), co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (2013) and the editor of The Cult TV Book (2010). She has published on the development of computer-generated effects in sf cinema, the transformation of Joss Whedon’s Firefly from television to film, the splattering of sf in 1970s cinema and on classic British sf television such as Quatermass, Torchwood and Ultraviolet.
Sarah Artt is Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. She co-leads the Age of Frankenstein Project with Dr Emily Alder. Her work has appeared in the journal Scope, and in collections with Winter Verlag, BrillRodopi and Bloomsbury. Her research and teaching interests include sf, women’s cinema and the uses of silence on screen.
Miranda Butler is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside, where she was a consultant for the 200 Years of Frankenstein special collections exhibit at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy. For the exhibit, she studied nineteenth-century editions of Mary Shelley’s novel alongside its numerous reinterpretations in film, television and popular culture. Her dissertation situates Victorian sound-based writing practices, such as phonetic shorthand, Morse code and Braille, as a central connection between nineteenth-century literature and evolutionary science.
Megen de Bruin-Molé is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton. She holds a PhD in English Literature, and her research interests include popular feminism, adaptation and contemporary remix culture. Her most recent publication, ‘Space Bitches, Witches, and Kick-Ass Princesses: Star Wars and Popular Feminism’, appeared in Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017). She is currently working on a book called Frankenfiction: Monstrous Adaptations and Gothic Histories in Twenty-First-Century Remix Culture. She blogs at frankenfiction.com.
Skye Cervone is a PhD candidate in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her dissertation focuses on capitalism’s relationship to animals in sf. Her work has appeared in Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany (2013) and Animalia: An Anthrozoology Journal. She currently serves as an editor for The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction and as the Public Information Officer for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
Jane Donawerth, Professor Emerita of English and Affiliate in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, is the author of Frankenstein’s Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction (1996) and co-editor of Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (1994). She was awarded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts scholarship award for career work in gender and sf. Her most recent book is Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600 to 1900 (2011). Her most recent article, co-authored with her daughter, Kate Scally, and [End Page 355] published in Extrapolation 58.1 (2017), follows Octavia Butler’s footsteps through her Maryland research for Kindred. She has also published on Shakespeare, early modern women’s writing and women’s rhetorical theory, and is working on an anthology of SF by Women in the Magazines with Anna Bedford.
Susan A. George, PhD, an independent scholar and rural library assistant, is the author of Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from Suburbs (2013) and co-editor, with Regina Hansen, of Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back (2014). Her work focuses on the construction of gender and the effect of technology on the body in fantastic film and television and the changing construction of masculinity in horror television. Her work has appeared in The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader (2008), Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History (2008), The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Post Script and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. She proudly serves on the editorial board of Science Fiction Film and Television.
Veronica Hollinger is Emerita Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. She is a long...
