Contributors
- Contributors
Eugenie Brinkema is an associate professor of contemporary literature and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research in film and media studies focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from structuralist film to the visual and temporal forms of terrorism. Brinkema's articles have appeared in the journals Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Criticism, differences, Discourse, film-philosophy, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, qui parle, and World Picture. Her first book, The Forms of the Affects, was published by Duke University Press in 2014. Brinkema will be a fellow at the University of Amsterdam in 2018–2019 completing a manuscript on horror and love.
Héctor G. Castaño received his PhD in philosophy from Université Paris Nanterre in 2017. In addition to his doctoral research on Jacques Derrida, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and questions of the body, his topics of interest include the intersections between film and philosophy, translation, and comparative philosophy.
Ian Kennedy is a doctoral candidate at Wayne State University, where he is completing his dissertation, "Unsound Media: An Archaeology of Technics at the Limits of the Audible." His research interests include sound studies, media archaeology, and experimental film.
Cameron Kunzelman is a PhD candidate in moving image studies at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in the journals Wide Screen and Science Fiction Film & Television as well as in a number of popular press publications. [End Page 391]
Adam Lowenstein is a professor of English and film and media studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Columbia University Press, 2005) and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (Columbia University Press, 2015).
Niels Niessen received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Minnesota and is currently a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. His work has been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, and Camera Obscura. Niessen is working on two book projects: Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord (forthcoming from SUNY Press) and Attention, or, What It Means to Be Present in the Internet Age (in progress at attentionbook.xyz). The essay published here, "Mad Men and Mindfulness," is part of Attention, together with its "twin" essay, "American Dreams ft. David Lynch," which has been published in Cultural Critique.
Karl Schoonover is an associate professor (reader) of film and television studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). With Rosalind Galt, Schoonover is a coeditor of Global Art Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2010) and coauthor of Queer Cinema in the World (Duke University Press, 2016), which received Katherine Singer Kovács Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Schoonover is currently writing a book on cinema as a medium of waste management. [End Page 392]
