Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Dani Bethea (she/they/them) is the former Editor-in-Chief of We Are Horror Magazine. Find them across an expanse of podcasts, Medium publications, cinéSPEAK, Gayly Dreadful, Uppercut Crit, and more. They have been a featured guest at Salem Horror Fest, the University of Pittsburgh's Summoning Candyman discussion, host of FrightGown's BIT and the Future of Trans Representation, Queen's University Kingston-Ontario Canada's Witch Institute, and Ax Wound Film Festival. Find more of their published contributions in The Women of Jenji Kohan: Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and Glow: A Collection of Essays (2022). They will be a featured cast member in Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary (2022).
John A. Dern is a professor of instruction in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Lehigh University in 1998. He has published one book, Martians, Monsters and Madonna: Fiction and Form in the World of Martin Amis, and essays on a variety of subjects in journals such as The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly, Pennsylvania English, and The Radio Journal. He has also published pedagogical articles in The Teaching Professor newsletter.
DeLisa D. Hawkes is an assistant professor of Africana Studies and an affiliate faculty of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her current book project examines representations of Black and Indigenous relationships in African American print culture and their impact on narratives of racial identity, kinship, and cross-cultural coalitions in the United States. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, including J19, Langston Hughes Review, MELUS, North Carolina Literary Review, and 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past (Palgrave 2020). Hawkes's research and teaching interests include nineteenth to twenty-first-century African American literature, Afro-Indigenous Studies, Southern Black feminism, historical and speculative fiction, and neo-slave narratives. She currently serves as the Vice President of the Langston Hughes Society and as a co-producer on the C19 Podcast Subcommittee.
Joseph L. Lewis is a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program at Princeton University. He earned an M.A. in Africana studies and literature from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and a Ph.D. in English from Wayne State University. His research is grounded in literary and rhetorical theory, including Black activist rhetoric, Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Afro-gothic horror. He is currently working on a book project which theorizes a Black horror poetics to interpret Black existence in literature, film, and culture.
Monika Estrella Negra is a freelance journalist, filmmaker and media curator. Her first short film, "Flesh," about a Black femme serial killer navigating the Chicago DIY punk scene, was included in the Horror Noire syllabus. She has directed three additional shorts, "They Will Know You By Your Fruit," "Succubus," and "Bitten, A Tragedy." Monika has written essays for Syfy Fangrrls, Black Girl Nerds, Grimm Magazine, Black Girls Create, Black Youth Project, Rue Morgue, Fangoria, and Wear Your Voice Mag, and is the author of a zine series, Tales from My Crypt. In addition, she is the creator of Audre's Revenge Film and Black and Brown Punk Show Chicago, a GRRL Haus Cinema Resident Filmmaker (2019), an Editor for Decoded Pride, and Editor-in-Chief of cinéSPEAK.
Mychal Reiff-Shanks is a Ph.D. candidate in the Moving Images Studies program at Georgia State University. They are a Black queer, non-binary person whose pronouns are they/them/theirs. An avid fan of media all their life, that idle love turned into a critical passion for Media Studies. Mychal's studies focus on aspects of their identity, such as African American, queer, and gender representation in media. The one thing that they hope to accomplish with their career is to inspire and encourage others to think critically about the media they consume and give them the tools to make media criticism accessible for all.
Alexandra Stamson is an adjunct professor of Philosophy at SUNY Purchase. She holds an M.A. in Women's and Gender Studies from the Graduate...
