About the contributors
- About the contributors
Stacey Abbott is Reader in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton. She has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009) and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2010). She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007) and is the editor of The Cult TV Book (2010).
Laurel Bollinger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she teaches American literature at graduate and undergraduate levels.
Jonathan Boulter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (2001), Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), Melancholy and the Archive (2011) and co-editor of Cultural Subjects: A Cultural Studies Reader (2005).
Gerry Canavan is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University, writing his dissertation on empire, totality and transatlantic science fiction of the twentieth century under the co-direction of Fredric Jameson and Priscilla Wald. He is the co-editor (with Lisa Klarr and Ryan Vu) of Polygraph 22: 'Ecology and Ideology' and (with Priscilla Wald) of a special issue of American Literature on speculative fiction.
Rob Cover is Senior Lecturer in Media, School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide where he teaches digital media theory and professional communications practices and writing. Rob researches and publishes on queer theory, digital media, youth studies and television narrative, with a core focus on theories of identity and subjectivity. Recent publications have appeared in Slayage, Continuum, New Media and Society, Media International Australia and Reconstruction, among others.
Carl Freedman is the author of many books and articles, and Professor of English at Louisiana State University. His most recent book is The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power (2011).
Terry Harpold is Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. The author of Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path (2008), his recent essays on sf film and television have appeared in Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture (2011), Visions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science (2011) and When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film (2012).
Iris Luppa is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London South Bank University. She is the author of Weimar Cinema (2008) and has published several articles on Fritz Lang.
Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books.
Barbara Selznick is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Global Television: Co-Producing Culture (2008) and Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema (2001). [End Page 311]
Sarah Trimble is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is currently finishing a dissertation on survivalism, biopolitics and youth in British and American apocalypse films. Her work has been published in The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.
Tony M. Vinci is currently working toward his PhD in English and Cultural Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is co-editor of Culture, Identities, and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies (2006) and has published essays on the cultural work of contemporary fantasy cinema in the Journal of Popular Culture. His current projects interrogate the recent influx of postmodern apocalyptic scholarship and the valorization of alterity in the work of Clive Barker. [End Page 312]
