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Teaching a broad array of film, literature and cultural studies courses at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Gregory Brophy and Shawn Malley are experimenting with dialectical modes of team-based pedagogy and its potential for co-authorship. Gregory has published widely in the fields of film and literature, including work recently featured in the Journal of Victorian Culture and forthcoming in the New Review of Film and Television. Shawn has recently published with Liverpool UP Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television (2018).

Cait Coker is Associate Professor and Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as co-editor of the Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, genre and publishing history. Most recently she was editor of The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World (McFarland, 2020).

Stefan Ekman is a docent in English literature at the University of Gothenburg and works as domain specialist for the humanities at the Swedish National Data Service. He has published widely on fantastic settings and world-building, including Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (Wesleyan UP, 2013), and on the social commentary in urban fantasy.

David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture division at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His research interests surround the intersectionalities of cinema, philosophy and technology and he is the author or co-author of the following interdisciplinary monographs: The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown (Edinburgh UP, 2020); Unbecoming Cinema (Intellect, 2017); and Chinese Urban Shi-nema: Cinematicity, Society, and Millennial China with Simon Harrison (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming).

Justice Hagan is a lecturer in the English Department at Marquette University. His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and migration studies.

Dan Hassler-Forest works as Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, adaptation studies, critical theory and zombies. He is currently working on a book about Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism.

Andrew Hoffmann is an instructor of English Composition at Waukesha County Technical College. While his main focus is on teaching, pedagogy and diversity and inclusion, his research interests include critical race and ethnic studies, sf studies, literary theory and popular culture.

Roger Luckhurst teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is the author, most recently, of Corridors: Passages of Modernity (2019).

Kevin M. McGeough is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. An archaeologist who has excavated in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Turkey, he is the chair of the publications committee of The American Schools of Oriental Research and holds a Board of Governor’s Research Chair in Archaeological Theory and Reception. McGeough is also the author of a three-volume series on the reception of archaeology, The Ancient Near East in the Nineteenth Century.

Bonnie McLean is an adjunct professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and an adjunct professor of Distance Education at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, where she teaches writing, literature and film. You can find her work in Science Fiction Film and Television and Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy.

Ana Oancea is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include the literature and culture of the French nineteenth century and the reinterpretation and reuse of nineteenth-century sources in modern and contemporary works. Her recent work has focused on adaptations of French sources into other media and their transposition in other cultures.

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