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Dr Susan FLYNN lectures in media and cultural studies at the
University of the Arts, London. She specialises in equality
studies, popular culture, body theory and cultural
representations of disability. Committed to promoting the
arts in underrepresented sections of society, Dr Flynn is
involved in a number of disability and mental health
charities in an advisory role. Interested in theorising and
challenging images of the subaltern in popular media, Dr
Flynn is published in the
International Scientific Journal,
Considering Disability Journal and has a number of works in press
including a chapter in the upcoming
Disability in World
Film Contexts (2015).
E-mail:
susan.flynn.1@ucdconnect.ie
Gabriel C. GHERASIM has taught in the American Studies
programme of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
since 2009. He holds a PhD in philosophy, an MA in cultural
studies and a BA in political sciences. His fields of
research include transatlantic political ideologies, the
philosophy of pragmatism and analytic philosophy, art and
aesthetics in the United States. In 2012, he published two
books on the analytical philosophy and aesthetics of Arthur
C. Danto. He is a member of the Romanian Association of
American Studies and executive editor of the
Romanian Journal of American Studies.
E-mail:
ggherasim@euro.ubbcluj.ro
Asbjørn GRØNSTAD
is Professor of visual culture in the Department of
information science and media studies, University of Bergen,
where he is also director of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center of
Visual Culture. A founding editor of the journal
Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture, he is the
author of numerous publications in cinema and media studies.
His most recent book is Agamben and Cinema: Ethics,
Biopolitics and the Moving Image (co-edited with Henrik
Gustafsson, Bloomsbury, 2014).
Email:
asbjorn.gronstad@infomedia.uib.no
Henrik GUSTAFSSON
is Associate Professor of Media- and
Documentation Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
His book Out of Site:
Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema,
1969-1974 (VDM, 2008) is an interdisciplinary study on
film, fine arts and cultural memory. Together with Asbjørn
Grønstad, he has edited the volumes
Cinema & Agamben:
Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (Bloomsbury,
2014) and Ethics and Images of Pain (Routledge,
2012). Recent publications appear in Journal of Visual
Culture (April 2013), A Companion to Film Noir
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and The Films of Claire Denis:
Intimacy on the Border (I.B. Tauris, 2014). Gustafsson
is currently working on a project entitled
Crime Scenery: Trace,
Trauma and Territory.
Email: hg@nomadikon.net
Janna
HOUWEN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Film and
Literary Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands, where
she teaches courses on literature, third cinema, adaptation,
media theory and the word-image relation. She has presented
and published research on European cinema, expanded cinema,
video, installation art, interculturality, media and humor
theory. Her current research involves medium specificity and
intermediality in contemporary visual culture. She has
recently completed a book titled
Mapping Moving Media:
Film and Video.
E-mail:
j.j.m.houwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Raluca MOLDOVAN is a PhD lecturer in history with a thesis
on the representation of the Holocaust in cinema, published
in 2012 by Lambert Academic Publishing under the title Reel
Trauma. The Representation of the Holocaust on Film. She has
been teaching in the American Studies programme at Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj Napoca, since 2004; her courses include
American History, American Film and American Popular
Culture. Her research areas include history of cinema, US
history, immigration history. She is currently working on a
book examining the relationship between history and cinema.
She has authored numerous articles on American Studies
topics in Romanian and foreign academic journals. She is a
member of the Romanian Association for American Studies and
the Association for the Study of Nationalities (Columbia
University, New York).
Email:
raluca@euro.ubbcluj.ro
Adriana NEAGU is Associate Professor of Anglo-American
Studies at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. She is the
author of Sublimating
the Postmodern Discourse: toward a Post-Postmodern Fiction
in the Writings of Paul Auster and Peter Ackroyd (2001),
In the Future Perfect:
the Rise and Fall of Postmodernism (2001), and of
numerous critical and cultural theory articles. Dr Neagu has
been the recipient of several pre- and postdoctoral research
awards. Previous academic affiliations include an Andrew W.
Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Edinburgh and visiting positions at Oxford University,
University of Bergen, University of East Anglia, and
University of London. Her teaching areas are diverse,
combining literary and cultural studies disciplines. Her
main specialism is in the poetics of modernist and
postmodernist discourse, postcolonial theory and the
literatures of identity, and translation theory and
practice. At present her research centres on new paradigms
of cultural identity in the U.K. Since
1999, Dr Neagu has been
Advisory Editor and, since 2004,
Editor-in-Chief of
American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of
the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania.
E-mail:
adrianacecilianeagu@gmail.com
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