Reconstruction Reconstruction 12.1 (2012): Special Issue: Locations of Stardom / Editors: Lisa Patti and Stanka Radović
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Contributors
Michele Byers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s University. She is editor or co-editor of four books on television, and her work has appeared in a broad range of journals and edited collections. She has held several SSHRC grants for the study of Canadian television, the most recent of which focuses on television and ethnicity. [article]
Anthony Cristofani is in the PhD program in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. He comes to academia after stints in the music industry and incarceration in California's San Quentin penitentiary. He works in Italian and French, specializing in narratives from and about the prison industrial complex, and is interested in alternative forms of academic practice, from collaborative interdisciplinary work to hybrid discursive-creative papers. [article]
Barry King is Professor of Communications at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author (with Sean Cubbit, Harriet Margolies and Thierry Jutel) of Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings, Manchester University Press 2008 and a substantial number of articles that explore various aspects of celebrity and stardom, the new work order, social semiotics and digital technology. He is currently completing a book: Taking Fame to Market: The Evolution of Stardom. [article]
Michael Mirabile is Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Lewis & Clark College. He teaches literature and works on modern and contemporary American and British fiction with a focus on media studies, postcolonialism, and critical theory. His current book project concerns the relation of twentieth-century novels to the mass media’s production of geo-cultural spaces within a global economy. [article]
Brandeise Monk-Payton is a PhD student in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She received her BA in Film and Media Studies from Swarthmore College and a MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. She has previously worked in broadcast journalism, documentary filmmaking, and media education. Her research interests include star studies and celebrity culture, African-American cinema, representations of race and gender on television, feminist theory, affect and performance, and theories of spectatorship. [article]
Lisa Patti is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Film and Video from Cornell University. Her current research focuses on the contemporary translation and distribution of international media in the US. Analyzing both DVD distribution and instant streaming, she explores how new media industries confront foreign languages and multilingualism. Her research and teaching interests also include stardom, fashion, web television, and music videos. [article]
Stanka Radović is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto where she teaches postcolonial literature and theory. She received her BA in English at Université de Genève, Switzerland and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Her research focuses on spatial representations of identity and the problem of marginal location in postcolonial literature with a specific focus on the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. [article]
Leah Shafer is Assistant Professor in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her scholarly work addresses interactive new media; television history; and, the advertising and marketing practices of the American entertainment industry. She is currently producing an interactive documentary about The Declaration of Sentiments. [article]
Gloria Shin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Division of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her critical work focuses on theories of affective labor and stardom as conceptual identities in practice. She is completing her dissertation titled “White Diamond: Elizabeth Taylor's Adventures in American Empire and the Ecstasy of Postcolonial Whiteness.” [article]
Jackie Zdrojeski was born and raised in Long Island, New York. She attended Cornell University's college of Architecture, Art and Planning, where she studied Fine Arts. During her time there, she developed an interest in the study of film and was a regular patron of Cornell Cinema. Her love of film greatly influences her artwork. In addition to being a cinephile, Zdrojeski is also an avid collector of succulents and cacti. She currently works and resides in New York. [piece]
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