Notes on Contributors

James Belflower is Teaching Assistant Professor at Siena College. As a poet/critic, his current research and creative projects employ artistic models to investigate how we mingle with matter. His most recent book is the multimedia project Canyons (Flimb Press 2016) with Matthew Klane. Past projects include The Posture of Contour (Spring Gun Press 2013) and Commuter (Instance Press 2009), among others. He also edits Fence Digital, the electronic imprint of Fence Books.

Carol Colatrella is professor of literature and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published three books: Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner (1990); Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading (2002); and Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology (2011). She edited Technology and Humanity (2012) and coedited (with Joseph Alkana) essays published in honor of Sacvan Bercovitch, Cohesion and Dissent in America (1994).

Martin Harries teaches at UC Irvine and works on twentieth-century theater, modernism, and theory. He is the author two books, Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (2007) and Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (2000). His book in progress about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama is called “Theater after Film.”

Tracy Lassiter is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico-Gallup. Her predominant research area is petrofiction, and she has published on this topic in Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and a 2015 anthology entitled Energy in Literature. She also has a co-authored chapter in the 2018 book, Library Service and Learning: Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility, and Building Community Connections.

Nidesh Lawtoo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at KU Leuven and Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project Homo Mimeticus. His work focuses on the transdisciplinary concept of mimesis as key to reframing (post)modern subjectivity, culture, and politics. His books include The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (2013), Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory (2016) and (New) Fascism: Contagion, Myth, Community (2019).

Murray Leeder holds a PhD from Carleton University and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. He is the author of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Halloween (Auteur, 2014), as well as the editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (Bloomsbury, 2015) and of ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). His work has also appeared in Horror Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television and other periodicals.

Lucia Palmer is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Heidelberg University in Ohio. She has published articles in journals such as International Journal of Communication, Studies in Popular Culture, and Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Her interests primarily revolve around the intersections between media, culture, and constructions of nationality, gender, race and sexuality. Currently, her research focuses on how cultural and political movements use media, in particular alternative and independent formats, to struggle over meaning production.

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the Modern Languages and English Studies Department at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the Research Centre ADHUC–Theory, Gender, Sexuality (UB). Her research focuses on film genres and women’s cinema in the USA and Spain. She has published book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers, Kimberly Peirce, Icíar Bollaín and Isabel Coixet. She co-edited, with Mary Harrod, Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017). Her monograph Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers has been published by Edinburgh University Press (2018).

Tano S. Posteraro is a PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at Penn State. He works at the intersection of continental philosophies of nature and contemporary innovations in the life sciences. He is co-editor of Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory (forthcoming, Edinburgh). His dissertation, The Virtual and the Vital, rereads Henri Bergson as a philosopher of biology in dialogue with the evolutionary theory of today.

Stacy Rusnak is an Associate Professor of Film at Georgia Gwinnett College. She received her PhD in Communications/Moving Image Studies from Georgia State University. She also holds an MA in Spanish Language and Literatures. Her publications include book chapters on Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the state of exception in Children of Men, the role of MTV and the music video during the 1980s satanic panic, and the intertwining of cannibalism and Mexican urban identity in Somos lo que hay. Most recently, she contributed an essay on the women of Twin Peaks to a book of essays (forthcoming).