Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Christina Connor is English faculty at Hillsborough Community College in Florida. Her research and courses focus on fairy tales and monsters in literature, and her forthcoming article on "Zombies in Literature" will appear in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. She is president of the Florida College English Association.
Dr. Asijit Datta is currently working as Assistant Professor and Head of English at The Heritage College, under Calcutta University. He completed his M.A. in English from Presidency College in 2009 and received his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University in 2017. His thesis attempted to locate the vanishing subjects in Ingmar Bergman and Samuel Beckett. His academic interests pertain to Posthumanism, Beckett Studies, Modern European Theatre, World Cinema, and Psychoanalysis. He also has several academic papers published on Beckett, Disability studies, Posthumanism, and Film criticism in reputed books, and national and international journals. As theatre director and scriptwriter, he has received critical acclaim and multiple awards for his plays.
Jeana Jorgensen earned her PhD in folklore from Indiana University, and since then has taught folklore at universities around the Midwest as well as at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research on various aspects of gender and sexuality in fairy tales has appeared in journals such as Marvels & Tales and the Journal of American Folklore and in books such as Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms and Resist and Persist: Essays on Social Revolution in 21st Century Narratives.
Justina Ireland lives with her husband, kid, cats, and dog in Maryland. She is the New York Times bestselling author of both full-length books and short fiction and considers words to be her best friends. You can find her work wherever books are sold and you can find her on Twitter as @justinaireland or at her website justinaireland.com. [End Page 120]
Sarah Juliet Lauro is associate professor of hemispheric literature at the University of Tampa. She is the author and editor of many works that address the figure of the living dead zombie in literature and film, including the article "A Zombie Manifesto" (co-authored with Karen Embry, boundary 2, Spring 2008), Better Off Dead: The Zombie as Posthuman (co-editor with Deborah Christie, Fordham UP, 2011), the monograph The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (Rutgers UP, 2015), and the collection Zombie Theory: A Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Susan Savage Lee is currently working as Assistant Professor, Chair of Modern Languages, and Co-Chair of African American Studies at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, KY. She has published several academic articles on Native American Studies, 20th Century American literature, and Comparative literature (specifically between the US and Argentina).
Dr. Jonathan Newell is an instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia. His first book is A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror, from the University of Wales Press. His research has been published in Horror Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and Studies in Gothic Fiction. In addition to teaching and research, he writes and illustrates roleplaying games. You can find him on twitter @Edweirdian.
Dennis Wilson Wise is a lecturer for the University of Arizona who studies the links between epic fantasy and political theory. Previous articles have appeared in journals like Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Gothic Studies, Law & Literature, Extrapolation, and others. Two years ago, Wise received a postdoctoral fellowship from Science Fiction Studies for archival research into modern alliterative poetry, and he is now assembling an anthology—currently under contract from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press—called Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival. Wise is also the reviews editor for Fafnir, which in 2020 became the first academic journal to win a World Fantasy Award. [End Page 121]
