Jeff Birkenstein is Associate Professor of English at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, WA. He is co-editor of Reframing 9/11: Film, Pop Culture, and the ‘War on Terror’ (Continuum, 2010) with Anna Froula and Karen Randell. His research interests lie in the short story, post-9/11 culture, and ‘Significant Food’ in fiction and culture.
Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Marquette University, teaching twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. He is a co-editor of recent special issues of Polygraph and American Literature, as well as two edited collections: Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Anna Froula is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Associate Editor of Cinema Journal. She has published on war trauma and gender in publications including Changing English, Cinema Journal, The Journal of War and Culture Studies and Iraq War Cultures (Peter Lang, 2011), and is working on a manuscript about representations of American military women.
Jacqueline Furby is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Film at Southampton Solent University, UK. She has published on film theory, film fantasy and time in film and television, including Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies, which she co-edited with Karen Randell (Wallflower Press, 2005), and the Routledge Film Guidebook on Fantasy, co-authored with Claire Hines (2012).
Ofir Haivry is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and is founding editor of the journal Azure. His recent publications include the introduction to the first complete Hebrew translation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, as well as ‘John Selden and the early modern debate over the foundations of political order’ in Annuaire de l’Institut Michel Villey.
Keith James Hamel received his doctorate from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He has taught at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Boston University; and Suffolk University in Boston, MA. His research interests include the history and aesthetics of film trailers, film acting and fantasy films. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Film and Video and Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.
Jim Holte is Professor of English and Film Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He is the author of Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations (Praeger, 1997) and is currently working an examination of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Tony Hood is a writer and academic based in Melbourne. His doctorate was awarded in 2003 for his dissertation Far from Equilibrium: The Film Art of Terry Gilliam from Deakin University, Victoria. His research interests are literary and philosophical influences in film and expressions of ‘the fantastic’.
Kathryn A. Laity is Associate Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose, NY. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Digital Humanities at the National University of Ireland Galway (2011–12) and is a novelist, playwright and humorist. Her areas of research include writers in the digital age, medieval literature and culture, film, comics, feminism and classic British comedy.
Jeffrey Melton is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He is author of Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (University of Alabama Press, 2009) with Alan Gribben. He has published essays on tourism, humor, and satire in various journals including South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Humor and Papers on Language and Literature.
Karen Randell is Professor of Film and Culture at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is co-editor of five books including The War Body on Screen (Continuum. 2008) and Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She has also been published in Screen and Cinema Journal.
Eric J. Sterling is Distinguished Research Professor of English at Auburn University, Montgomery, where he has taught since 1994. He has published two articles on Schindler’s List and essays on popular culture, and has authored four books, including an essay collection on Death of a Salesman (Rodopi, 2008).