Contributors
- Contributors
G Douglas Barrett works on experimental music and contemporary art as a practitioner and scholar. His book After Sound: Toward a Critical Music was published in 2016. His next book, Experimenting the Human: Experimental Music and the Contemporary Posthuman, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Barrett is currently an assistant professor of communication at Salisbury University.
Daniel Davidson-Kalmar is a Toronto-based photographer and cinematographer. "Lighthouse Point, Isle of Skye" is part of a series of landscapes from the Scottish island.
Jenny Gunn teaches courses in film studies at Emory University and Georgia State University. She completed her doctorate in moving image studies at Georgia State University in 2019. Her current book project analyzes the impact of the forward-facing camera on contemporary visual culture and historical understandings of the cinema and the self. Gunn is an ongoing contributor to the liquid blackness research group and social media strategist for liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her writing is published in JCMS, Film-Philosophy, Black Camera, Frames Cinema Journal, Cinephile, and Mediascape.
Chaorong Hua is a PhD student in the combined program of film and media studies and comparative literature at Yale University. His research focuses on philosophy/theories of cinema and literature, with special interests in aesthetics and the tradition of phenomenology (especially Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, among others). The central topics of Hua's research have been animal, technology, and world.
Laliv Melamed is a research fellow in the graduate research training program Configurations of Film at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is the coeditor of a number of special issues and edited collections, most recently Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes toward an Inventory (Meson Press, 2020). Melamed's forthcoming book, titled Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence, studies the role of mediated kinship and mourning as a mode of co-option in the Israeli necropolitical regime.
Ana Hedberg Olenina is an assistant professor of comparative literature and media studies at Arizona State University. Her main research focus is the Soviet avant-garde, while her broader interests lie at the juncture of early film history and media theory with an emphasis on historical configurations of sensory experience, emotional response, embodiment, and immersive environments. Olenina is the author of Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her essays have appeared in Film History, Discourse, Kinovedcheskie zapiski, Frontiers of Psychology, and several anthologies in Russia and the United States. In collaboration with Maxim Pozdorovkin, Olenina has curated award-winning DVD releases of the restored silent films Landmarks of Early Soviet Film and Miss Mend by Flicker Alley.
Colin Williamson is an assistant professor of cinema studies and American studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He serves on the Executive Committee of Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, and as reviews editor for Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Williams's research focuses on early animation, special effects, and science and the cinema. He is the author of Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and has published articles and essays in such edited collections as Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) and Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice (Rutgers University Press, 2016) and in the journals Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Leonardo; The Moving Image, Imaginations, Early Popular Visual Culture, and Film History. Williamson's research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in cinema and media studies from the University of Chicago.
