Ashwin Bajaj is completing a PhD in comparative literature at UC Irvine on the tricontinental historical novel and is, more broadly, invested in postcolonial and global literature, dialectical thought, environmental humanities, and novel theory. His work has previously appeared in NOVEL and Studies in the Novel.
Adriana Michele Campos Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC-Irvine. She is completing a project on visual infrastructures in Latin America and recently co-edited, with Dan Nemser, an issue of Social Text entitled Reading for Infrastructure: Worlds Made and Broken. Recent publications include “Excess of Visibility/Scarcity of Water” (Discourse), “An Expanse of Water” (Liquid Ecologies in the Arts), “In-São-Paulo-Visible” (Revista Hispanica Moderna), “Visuality as Infrastructure” (Social Text).
Muhsina K K is a PhD student at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Her PhD research focuses on the visualculture of public mourning and its negotiations with the public sphere of Kerala. Her research interests encompass death and mourning, mourning public(s), mourning and media. She has published an article on mourning and contemporary Malayalam cinema in Jump Cut.
Akshaya Kumar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He received his doctorate in Film and Television Studies from the University of Glasgow on Screen studentship in 2015 and went on to publish his first monograph, Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible, in 2021 (Oxford University Press). His ongoing research traverses platform capitalism, comparative media studies, and logistical media. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals including Social Text, Postmodern Culture, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Media Industries, and Media, Culture & Society.
Vinay Lal is a cultural critic, writer, blogger, and Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of 21 books including nine volumes from Oxford UP. He has an academic YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/dillichalo. Lal was a Fellow for 2024 at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa, and is presently holder (in India) of the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for Professional and Academic Excellence.
Gayatri Mehra is completing her dissertation titled Looking Beyond the Wound: Contemporary Feminist Imaginaries of the Global South in the department of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. Her research interests include Global South Novel Studies, Postcolonial studies, and Marxist-Feminist Theory. Her research is forthcoming in Research in African Literatures.
Clare Ostroski is a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. She is a multidisciplinary writer in media studies and the environmental humanities.
Richard Pithouse is Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Language Education at the University of the Western Cape, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies in Dublin and New York, and International Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut. He is the founder of The Commune, a radical book store, and The Forge, a cultural centre, both in Johannesburg. As the founding editor of Inkani Books, he commissioned an isiZulu translation of The Wretched of the Earth. The translation, by Makhosazana Xaba, was published last year. He is also the former editor of New Frame, described by Achille Mbembe as “one of the most exciting political, intellectual and cultural projects to emerge in Africa” and “arguably the top intellectual media platform on our Continent.”
Louis-Georges Schwartz has taught Film Studies at Ohio University, The University of Iowa, and San Francisco State University. He is the author of Mechanical Witness, Moving Testimony: A History of Motion Picture Evidence in United States Courts (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Erin Trapp lives in Minneapolis and is a therapist in private practice. She has published essays on poetry, psychoanalysis, and the environment in journals such as Social Text, Postmodern Culture, ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
Susan Vanderborg is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Her research fields are contemporary experimental poetry, book art, bio art, comics, and speculative fiction, with articles in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Inks, Postmodern Culture, Contemporary Literature, and Science Fiction Studies.
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