About the contributors
- About the contributors
Cait Coker is a doctoral candidate in English at Texas A&M University. Her work uses empirical and enumerative bibliography to recover the labours of women in the book trades in the seventeenth century, and uses book history to recontextualise theories of genre writing.
Ezekiel Crago is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. In his dissertation, he traces the outlines of a post-industrial postmodern model of manhood that he is calling ‘apocalyptic masculinity’ in the post-apocalyptic film genre that appeared in 1950s–1970s Hollywood, an imagining of the role of hegemonic patriarchal white masculinity in a world where traditional masculinist discourses no longer make sense.
Sean Guynes-Vishniac is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University, the Journals Coordinator at Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan, and the editor of SFRA Review. He is the co-editor of Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling (2017) and Whiteness and the American Superhero (forthcoming).
Amanda Keeler (PhD, Indiana University, 2011) is an assistant professor of digital media in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University, where she teaches courses in film and television aesthetics, the history of broadcasting, and scriptwriting. She is the Network Co-Director for the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force.
Joseph Jenner is close to completing his PhD in Film Studies at King’s College London. He is drawing together his research interests in posthumanism, spectatorship and the sf genre to posit a posthuman model of spectatorship that engages with contemporary political questions about gender, race and the human. Joseph undertook his MSt in Film Aesthetics at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. He works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at King’s College London, as well as a lecturer and tutor at Masters level at MetFilm School.
Bronwyn Lovell is a PhD candidate at Flinders University, where she is researching depictions of women in space narratives. She is also writing a feminist sf verse novel with a female astronaut–mother protagonist. Her essay, ‘Science Fiction’s Women Problem’, published by The Conversation (2016), gained international attention. You can follow her on Twitter@lovellybronwyn or visit bronwynlovell.com.
Lorrie Palmer is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University. Her scholarship on film history, film and TV genres (action, sf, horror), race and gender in media, digital aesthetics and city space in screen cultures appears in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Senses of Cinema, Jump Cut, Camera Obscura and in several anthologies.
Lisa Purse is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. She is the author of Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013) and Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), and the co-editor of Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017). She has published widely on genre cinema, digital aesthetics, and the relationships between film style and the politics of representation in mainstream cinema.
Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her books on gender and cinema culture include: Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015), Soldiers’ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since WWII (2011), Action and Adventure Cinema (ed., 2004), Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998) and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and Action Cinema (1993).
Jerome Winter is a lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism: Nostalgia for Infinity (2016).
