Reconstruction 11.1 (2011)

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Contributors

Lars Gustaf Andersson is a senior lecturer and reader in Film Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. He has conducted research on European art cinema, and is co-author (with John Sundholm and Astrid Söderbergh Widding) of A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden 2010). He is currently working on a monograph on the films of Peter Weiss, and also researching the Swedish Film Workshop in Stockholm, together with John Sundholm. [article]

Sandro R. Barros is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at DePauw University. He earned his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Cincinnati with a dissertation on contemporary representations of Latin American marginality in foreign literary markets. Sandro has published articles on Reinaldo Arenas, Cervantes, Paulo Lins, and Fernando Vallejo. His current interests include critical/resistance pedagogies and the political implications of Latino literature in the U.S. curriculum. His first book, Competing Truths in Latin American Literature: Narrating Otherness and Marginality, is forthcoming through Floricanto Press. [article]

Brad D. Baumgartner is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is currently researching a project on the historical and ontological intersections of mysticism on literary modernism. He has published in CTheory. [article]

Catalina Florina Florescu earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2007. She has taught at Purdue University, Rutgers University, and St. Peter’s College. This spring, she will be teaching at Hudson County Community College. Her interests lie in the multifarious manifestations of the writing process, with a special emphasis on the idioms of pain and suffering. She has published book chapters, essays, and articles, and more recently, she hast started to write plays, which she hopes to (see) stage(d). Her most rewarding sources of inspiration are the loss of her parents and the joys of her son Mircea. She dreams in Romanian, but writes in English. [article]

Angela Flury is Associate Professor in the Department of English at DePauw University. She is interested in translation studies as well as fashion studies, and has translated excerpts of works by Christa Wolf in PMLA and Absinthe: New European Writing. [article]

Kevin Howley is Associate Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. He is author of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (2005) and editor of Understanding Community Media (2010). His work has appeared in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Social Movement Studies, the Journal of Radio Studies, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. [article]

DT Kofoed is the pen name of a real person, currently finalizing an MA in English Literature from Michigan State University. My primary research interests are comics and the graphic character of literatures in general. I have taught 20th century literature and genre fiction, and am currently working with the University Writing Center where I serve as Creative Writing Coordinator. Future plans include an undergraduate Zombie Literature seminar. Previous publication includes an examination of the body and ideologically reinforced panel structures in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. A follow-up essay on the use of coloration and background spaces to create the liminal figures of revolution in The Dark Knight Strikes Again is forthcoming. [article]

Heather Macdougall is a student in the inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Humanities program at Concordia University in Montreal, where she is also a part-time instructor. Her doctoral research, which is funded by the Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, focuses on language and film, particularly questions of policy and practice within a bilingual history of Irish cinema. [article]

John Muthyala is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine. His research interests are Globalization and Hemispheric American Studies; his publications include Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative (which studies the literatures and cultures of the Americas in pan-American, cross-border, and international frameworks), and articles in Cultural Critique, New Global Studies, and Comparative American Studies, among others. [article]

Hervé Regnauld is Professeur de Geographie Physique at the University of Rennes, France. He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His research deals with high energy events (tsunamis, severe storms) and their impacts on coastal behaviour. He also studies the relation between physical geography and art, especially land art. He is an affiliated editor for Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. [article]

Eva Repouscou was born in 1977 in Athens, Greece. I received my Diploma in Architecture (2003) and MSc in Architectural Theory (2005) from the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). I am currently undertaking the Ph.D in Architectural Design at the School of Architecture, NTUA, with a scholarship from the Hellenic Republic (IKY). I practice architecture and undertake designing and artistic projects on a freelance basis. Individually and as a team member, I have participated and been awarded prizes in architecture and design competitions. [article]

Karen Rodríguez is the Director of the CIEE Study Center in Guanajuato, Mexico, and teaches in the Visual Arts Department and the Doctoral Program in Arts at the Universidad de Guanajuato. She has graduate degrees in both Applied Anthropology and Latin American Studies, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies. Her research interests include psychoanalysis, cities, and the intersections between writing, culture, space and subjectivity. [article]

Ben Ulke is a photographer and graphic designer living in Chemnitz, Germany, who is currently pursuing graduate studies in Media Communications at Chemnitz University of Technology. His art work is on display at http://calis.daportfolio.com/gallery/153534 [article]

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