Patty Ahn is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her research interests include critical histories and theories of U.S. television, transnational media studies with a regional focus on the Pacific Rim, gender and sexuality, and sound and popular music. She has been published in Spectator, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Discourse, and is currently serving a two-year term as co-chair of the SCMS Queer Caucus.
Jennie Berner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she teaches English and fiction writing. Both her scholarly work and her creative dissertation – a collection of short stories – interrogate the relationship between literature and visual technologies. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in
Crazyhorse, Boston Review, The Journal, and
The Coachella Review.
Sean Braune is a Ph.D. student at York University and holds a Masters from the University Toronto. His poetry has appeared in
ditch, The Puritan, Rampike, and
Poetry is Dead. He wrote the play
Leer that was performed at Ryerson University in April 2010 and directed the short film
An Encounter (2005), which won the award for excellence in cinematography at the Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival ’09. He has published in
Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, and
Journal of Modern Literature.
Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a member of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Consortium on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity. He is the author of
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota 2007) and of numerous articles on literature, cinema, and psychoanalysis in
American Literary History, Common-Place, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Early American Literature, Senses of Cinema, Screen, Slant, and Victorian Poetry. He is a member of the Executive Council of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and co-edits the Center’s Early American Studies book series, which is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Carol Colatrella is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Affairs in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Colatrella’s books include
Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner; Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading, and
Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology. She co-edited (with Joseph Alkana) and contributed to
Cohesion and Dissent in America. Technology and Humanity, an anthology she edited and to which she contributed, has just been published. Since 1993, she has served as Executive Director of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts and editor of the SLSA newsletter
Decodings.
Rory Ferreira is twenty and loves omelets. He studies philosophy at St. Norbert College and overuses the ethical dative. Lacking the courage to write academic papers, he started writing rap songs as Milo. His debut record, a double-EP titled “things that happen at day // things that happen at night,” will be released via Hellfyre Club on January 1st, 2013.
Lisa Guenther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of
The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction (SUNY Press, 2006) and
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
Graham Hammill is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of
The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton (Chicago, 2012) and
Sexuality and Form (Chicago, 2000), and co-editor of
Political Theology and Early Modernity (Chicago, 2012).
Damjana Mraović-O’Hare is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Carson-Newman College. She has published in
Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Language Studies, and
World Literature Today.
Gregory Steirer is a scholar specializing in media studies, aesthetics, and digital culture. From 2011-2012, he served as a researcher for the Connected Viewing Initiative project at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara. He has taught television, audio culture, film, and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Film Academy, and UC Santa Barbara. He has published articles on performance theory and comics studies and has work forthcoming in the anthology
Connected Viewing: Selling, Sharing, and Streaming Media in a Digital Age (Routledge). He also manages the blog
Cultural Production.