Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Donald L. Anderson, PhD, teaches writing, literature, and film at Mt. Hood Community College. His publications deal mostly with Italian horror with specific focus on Joe D'Amato and Giulio Questi.
Tyler Bradway is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Cortland. He is author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor, with E. L. McCallum, of After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Cambridge, 2019), selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2019. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in venues such as GLQ, College Literature, Mosaic, Stanford Arcade, The Comics of Alison Bechdel, and the Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernist Studies. He is currently writing a book on queer narrative theory and contemporary kinship and co-editing, with Elizabeth Freeman, Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging (Duke UP, under contract).
Katherine Buse is a PhD candidate in English with an emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her publication and research areas focus on the relationship between environmental science and speculative media. She is completing a dissertation on how the history of climate modeling has interacted with world-building practices in science fiction literature, films, and video games.
Jordan S. Carroll is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at the University of Puget Sound. His essays have appeared in journals including American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Post45, and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. His book Reading the Obscene (Stanford University Press, under contract) explores the class character of censorship in U. S. literature, and he is currently working on a second project that analyzes the alt right, geek culture, and the racial politics of time.
Bethany Doane is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, where she received her PhD in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in August 2019. Her research focuses on contemporary literature and film, theories of gender and race, media studies, and critical theory. She recently edited a special cluster in [End Page 179] Modern Language Studies on "Speculative Horror," and she is currently working on her first book project, Weird Reading: Race, Gender, and the Inhuman in Contemporary Horror. This project emphasizes the political and methodological affordances of horror fiction in the weird tradition in addressing critical concepts such as the inhuman, biopolitics, and the Anthropocene.
Stefanie Kyle Dunning is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. She is a graduate of Spelman College and the University of California, Riverside and a Ford Fellow. Her first book Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire and Contemporary African American Culture, was published by Indiana University Press in 2009. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Signs, and several other journals and anthologies. Her latest project, Black to Nature: Pastoral Return, Abolition, and Interbeing, is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi in 2021.
Andrew Hageman is Associate Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he researches and teaches intersections of technology and ecology in literature and film. His recent publications bring infrastructural criticism to speculative fiction and/or explore various facets of Twin Peaks.
Adriana Knouf (she/her/hers, sie/hir/hirs), PhD, works as a xenologist, as an artist-scientist-writer-designer-engineer. She engages with topics such as biological art, space art, radio transmission, non-human encounters, drone flight, queer and trans futurities, the voice, and papermaking. She is the Founding Facilitator of the tranxxeno lab, a nomadic artistic research laboratory that promotes entanglements amongst entities trans and xeno. Adriana is also an Assistant Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University. Adriana is the author of How Noise Matters to Finance (2016) and other written work on topics like bioart, queer and trans existences, radio art, and surveillance. She has been selected for a number of prestigious residencies, including a Biofriction residency (SI) and participation in Field_Notes (FI). She regularly presents her research at conferences and festivals around the world.
Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor and Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He is...
