Holly Blackford (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of American and Children's Literature at Rutgers University, Camden, USA. Recent books include Mockingbird Passing: Closeted Traditions and Sexual Traditions in Harper Lee's Novel, The Myth of Persephone in Girls’ Fantasy Literature, 100 Years of Anne with an “e” (ed.), and Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls .
Catherine Fowler is a Senior Lecturer in Film at Otago University, New Zealand. She is editor of The European Cinema Reader , co-editor of Representing the Rural: Space, Place and Identity in Films about the Land , and author of a monograph on the British filmmaker Sally Potter.
Jeff Greenberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, USA, in 1982. He has co-authored two books, including In the Wake of 9–11: The Psychology of Terror , co-edited two books, and published many research articles. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, USA.
Steffen Hantke has written on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (1994), as well as editor of Horror , a special topics issue of Paradoxa (2002), Horror: Creating and Marketing Fear (2004), Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (2007), with Rudolphus Teeuwen, of Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic Proletariat (2007), and American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium (2010). He teaches at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.
A. Robin Hoffman recently defended her dissertation, which traces the co-evolution of constructions of literacy and childhood in Victorian alphabet books. Her research more broadly addresses representations of childhood, word and image studies, and British print culture in the long nineteenth century. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, her teaching will focus on the history of illustrated books.
Rebecca Kambuta is a Ph.D. student in the Media, Film, and Communications Department at Otago University, New Zealand. Her doctoral dissertation traces the figure of the unruly child through film, news media, and reality television. She has also written on the makeover genre in her MA thesis, “Televising Transformation: A Close Analysis of Extreme Makeover and The Swan .”
Karen J. Renner is a Lecturer in American Literature at Northern Arizona University, USA. Her research interests include 19- and 20th-century American Literature, Popular Culture, Childhood Studies, and Horror. She is currently working on two manuscripts: Perverse Subjects: Drunks, Gamblers, and Prostitutes in Antebellum America and Bad Seeds and Injured Innocents: The “Evil Child” in the Contemporary Imagination .
Meheli Sen is Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers University, USA. Her research area is popular Hindi cinema, commonly referred to as “Bollywood.” She is interested in how the filmic registers of genre, gender, and sexuality resonate with specific moments in India's troubled encounters with modernity and globalization.
Daniel Sullivan received bachelor's degrees in psychology and German studies at the University of Arizona, USA, in 2008. He is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Social Psychology program at the University of Kansas, USA.
William Wandless is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA, where he specializes in British fiction of the eighteenth century and teaches courses in critical theory and American popular culture.
Sara Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Hull, UK. Her doctoral work concentrates on locating a tyrannical maternal gaze in textual and visual modes of Gothic production from the nineteenth century to the contemporary, and her wider research interests include cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytical (mis)constructions of motherhood and the epistemology of hysteria.