CONTRIBUTOR LIST
THOMAS M. BARRETT is Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author of At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier (1999). He has published articles on the history of Cossacks, the North Caucasus, Russian themes in American culture, and American science fiction during the cold war. He is currently writing a book on the image of Russia and Eastern Europe in American popular culture. He is the original conceptualizer, researcher, and writer for the Library of Congress’s multimedia digital library, Meeting of Frontiers (frontiers.loc.gov).
FERNANDO GABRIEL PAGNONI BERNS currently works at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) as Graduate Teaching Assistant of “Literatura de las Artes Combinadas II.” He teaches seminars on American Horror Cinema and Euro Horror. He is director of the research group on horror cinema “Grite” and has published essays in the books Undead in the West (2012), The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times (2014), and Heroines of Comic Books and Literature (2014), among others.
MICHAEL W. BOYCE is Associate Professor and Program Chair of English and Film Studies at Booth University College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film (2012). In his current project, he examines the representation of crime and criminals in post-war British film.
JEFFREY A. BROWN is Professor in the Department of Popular Culture and the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of numerous academic articles about gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary media, as well as three books: Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans (2000), Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism and Popular Culture (2011), and Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture (2015). He is currently completing a book about live action superheroes in film and television in post-9/11 American culture.
CHARLES BURNETTS teaches film in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings University College, University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film (2015). He has published articles in Journal of Film and Video, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Scope.
JAMES CHAPMAN is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, and author of Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (2007), as well as other works on film and television history including Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (2002), War and Film (2008), Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of “Doctor Who” (2013), and Film and History (2013).
ROBERT VON DASSANOWSKY is Professor of German and Film, Director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and works as an independent film producer. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the European Film Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His recent books include Austrian Cinema: A History (2005), New Austrian Film (2011), Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema (2012), World Film Locations: Vienna (2012) and Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–38 (2015).
KLAUS DODDS is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Editor of The Geographical Journal. He has written numerous articles on the popular geopolitics of James Bond and other spies/assassins including Jason Bourne, and his work has appeared in such journals as Geopolitics, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Third World Quarterly, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Security, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Geographical Review, and Popular Communication. He is the co-author, with Sean Carter, of International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power (2014).
LISA FUNNELL is Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. She has published numerous articles on gender and feminism in the Bond franchise. She also researches Hong Kong martial arts films and Hollywood blockbusters. Her book Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star (2014) won the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in 2015. She is also the co-editor of Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange (2012) and American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows (2015).
CATHERINE HAWORTHIS Lecturer in Music at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on musical practices of representation and identity construction across various media, with a particular focus on film and television music. Recent publications include articles on identity and the soundtrack in female detective films and the female gothic genre; guest editorship of the gender and sexuality special issue of Music, Sound and the Moving Image; and the co-edited collection Gender, Age and Musical Creativity (2015).
CHRISTOPHER HOLLIDAY currently teaches Film Studies at King’s College London and London South Bank University, and has previously been visiting lecturer in animation at the University of Kent. He has published several book chapters and journal articles on computer-animated films and, most recently, written on the performance of British actors in contemporary US television drama for the Journal of British Cinema and Television. His research interests include popular Hollywood cinema, histories of British film and television, as well as nuances of film style, fictional world creation and acting within the context of digital media and traditional animated forms.
STEPHANIE JONES is Teaching Fellow at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies in the Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts at Aberystwyth University in the UK. In 2012, she completed a PhD on representations of masculinity within the Bond franchise including an analysis of notions of masculinity within Fleet Street Press responses to James Bond films. Stephanie is the editorial assistant for the Routledge journal Media History.
ROSS KARLAN is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies at Georgetown University, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in Cinema Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Art History. He has always been a fan of James Bond, and has studied magic since he was a child. In addition to his academic interests in Latin America, much of Ross’s research investigates the intersections of magic, film, literature, and art.
PETER C. KUNZE completed a PhD in English at Florida State University in 2012 and is current working on a second PhD, in Media Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines masculinity, comedy, and childhood across literature, film, and new media. Recent interests include sincerity in contemporary American culture and the industrial history of the Animation Renaissance. He is the editor of The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon (2014) as well as the forthcoming collection Conversations with Maurice Sendak.
JIM LEACH is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. His research and teaching interests include Canadian cinema, British cinema, popular cinema, and film and cultural theory. He has published books on the films of Alain Tanner and Claude Jutra, on British cinema and Canadian cinema, co-edited a critical anthology on Canadian documentary films, and developed a Canadian edition of an introductory film studies textbook. His latest book is a monograph on Doctor Who for Wayne State University Press.
CHRISTOPH LINDNER is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. His work on Bond includes the edited volumes Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale (2009) and The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader (2009).
DAN MILLS has a PhD. in English from Georgia State University where he wrote his dissertation on early modern utopian literature. He has published articles in the journals Pedagogy, Cahiers Élisabéthains, and In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism and has forthcoming articles in edited collections on critical theory and early modern literature and Western encounters with the East.
STEPHEN NEPA currently teaches history at Temple University, Moore College of Art and Design, and Rowan University. He has written for Planning Perspectives, Environmental History, Buildings and Landscapes, New York History, and other publications. He is also contributing essays to the forthcoming volumes The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends who Rocked the World and A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia, Ecology, and the Material Imagination.
LORI L. PARKS is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University, Ohio. Recent publications include entries in The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast (2014) and essays in the forthcoming collections Tim Burton: Works, Characters, Themes and Relentless Seeking: Contemporary Art and Addiction in Global Contexts. She is also co-editing with Drs. Neumann and Yamashiro a special issue on food for the European Journal of American Culture.
BRIAN PATTON is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at King’s University College at Western University in London, Canada. His published work includes contributions to Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 (2005),100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries (2013) and James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy (2014).
ANNA G. PIOTROWSKA is Associate Professor in the Institute of Musicology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. In 2010, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Boston University, USA and in 2005 she held the Mellon fellowship in Edinburg University, UK. She is the author of Gypsy Music in European Culture (2013) and four books in Polish, including On Music and Film: An Introduction to Film Musicology (2014).
SABINE PLANKA currently works at the University of Siegen as a coordinator for administrative matters and as a researcher in the Department German Studies. She is editor of Die Zeitreise. Ein Motiv in Literatur und Film für Kinder und Jugendliche (2014). She has published an article in Film International and essays in the collections Der skandinavische Horrorfilm (2013) and Writing Worlds: Welten- und Raummodelle der Fantastik (2014).
EILEEN ROSITZKA is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Frames Cinema Journal and has written essays in Bigger Than Life: Ken Adam’s Film Design (2014) accompanying an exhibition of the same title at the Deutsche Kinemathek, as well as in the collections The Sound of Genre (2015) and Genre und Serie (2015).
MARLISA SANTOS is Associate Professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the author of The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir (2010) and the editor of Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema (2013). She has also published numerous essays in peer-reviewed anthologies on various topics such as food and film and contemporary southern film, and on directors such as Martin Scorsese, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Joseph H. Lewis.
ALEXANDER SERGEANT is a PhD candidate within the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London. His thesis examines issues of spectatorship in relation to the Hollywood fantasy genre and was supported by a grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. His research interests include the history of Hollywood cinema in the twenty and twenty first centuries, film theory, theories of film spectatorship, film philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published on these subjects in a variety of academic journals and edited collections.
ANDREA SEVERSON has two Master of Arts degrees, in Media Arts from the University of Arizona and in English: Rhetoric & Composition from Arizona State University, and is now working towards a PhD in rhetoric at ASU, focusing on fashion rhetoric. She has been teaching at Arizona State University and Maricopa County Community Colleges since 2010. For the past ten years, she has also worked as a freelance costume designer on various theatrical and film projects. She has been a member of the Arizona Costume Institute since 2010 and served on its Board of Directors from 2011 to 2014.
KRISTEN SHAW is a doctoral candidate in the English and Cultural Studies Program at McMaster University. Her major research interests include representations of gender and race in popular culture, including film, television, and literature, as well as studies of science fiction and fantasy. She has been published in Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature and is currently the assistant editor of an upcoming essay collection on Canadian science fiction. She is currently writing her dissertation entitled Strangers in Strange New Lands: Feminist Spatial Politics in Science Fiction.
BOEL ULFSDOTTER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Skövde University College, Sweden. She completed her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Reading in 2008. Her areas of research specialization include popular film and culture, screen costuming, fashion history and consumption, and museum culture.
TRAVIS L. WAGNER is completing a Master of Library and Information Science degree and a Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of South Carolina. He is an instructional assistant within the Women’s and Gender Program with a focus on images of women, particularly in South Korean cinema. He has published in Cinephile: The University of British Columbia’s Film Journal (2014).