JOSE ALANIZ is associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature (adjunct), and director of the Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington – Seattle. He is the author of Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (University Press of Mississippi, 2014).
PETRA ANDERS is a lecturer at Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. She is the author of Behinderung und psychische Krankheit im zeitgenössischen deutschen Spielfilm. Eine vergleichende Filmanalyse (Königshausen & Neumann, 2014).
SUSAN ANTEBI is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and co-editor, with Beth Jörgensen, of Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies (SUNY Press, 2016).
SUSAN FLYNN is a doctoral graduate of the Equality Studies Centre at the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, and a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of the Arts, London. She has published in a range of international journals including the American, British and Canadian Studies Journal and Considering Disability Journal.
BENJAMIN FRASER is professor of Hispanic Studies and chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University in North Carolina. He is the author of, amongst other publications,
Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet University Press, 2009) and
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool University Press, 2013). His articles on disability themes have appeared in such journals as
Cultural Studies,
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies,
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies,
Bulletin of Spanish Studies,
Hispanic Issues Online,
Hispania and
Dieciocho.
SANJUKTA GHOSH is professor in the Department of Communication and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Castleton University in Vermont. She has published in a variety of international journals such as Alternatives and in anthologies on race, gender and sexuality.
MICHAEL GILL is assistant professor of Disability Studies in the School of Education at Syracuse University. He is the author of Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and the co-editor, with Cathy Schlund-Vials, of Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism (Ashgate, 2014).
ANNA GREBE is a lecturer at the University of Vienna and the JohannesKepler-Universität in Linz, Austria. She is an associate member of the DFG research group ‘Media and Participation: Between Demand and Entitlement’ at the University of Konstanz and member of the Chilean research group ‘Arte y Nuevos Medios’ at the University of Valparaíso.
JENNIFER S. GRIFFITHS is a lecturer at Iowa State University College of Design Rome and the American University of Rome. Her articles on issues of gender and representation have appeared in Gastronomica, Women’s Studies Quarterly.
ROSA HOLMAN is a researcher with the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne. She is the author of various publications, with her research on Iranian cinema appearing in the journals Senses of Cinema and Screening the Past.
KATHERINE LASHLEY is a PhD candidate in English at Morgan State University and an adjunct in the English Department at Towson University. She has published a memoir about growing up with an older autistic sister entitled My Younger Older Sister (2001).
KEN JUNIOR LIPENGA is a lecturer in the English department at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He has published articles on disability in several journals, including the
African Journal of Disability,
Journal of African Cultural Studies and
Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity.
DAVID T. MITCHELL AND SHARON L. SNYDER are the co-authors of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (University of Michigan Press, 2000), Cultural Locations of Disability (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment (University of Michigan Press, 2015). They are also the creators of three award-winning films about disability arts, history and culture. Together they helped found the Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession at the Modern Languages Association as well as researched, wrote and curated a Chicago Disability History Exhibit for Bodies of Work: Disability Arts and Culture Festival, and also are producing a new film on the social and surgical issues involved with esophageal atresia.
PAUL PETROVIC is a lecturer at the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He is the editor of Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and has been published in the journals Critique, Studies in American Naturalism and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
CANDACE SKIBBA is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of ‘Equally Authentic: Illness and Disability in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar – Blindness and the Voyeur’, included in the anthology Otherness in Hispanic Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
MITZI WALTZ is a Senior Researcher with Disability Studies in Nederland and Hogeschool van Rotterdam. She is the author of Autism: A Social and Medical History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
JAMES A. WREN is a retired professor of Japanese and comparative literature at San Jose State University. His monographs include Epidemics and Pandemics and The Himalayas, and has had essays published in Microscopia, Critique, and disClosure. He is also the editor of Reconstruction 16.1: Regionalism, Regional Identity and Queer Asian Cinema.