Reconstruction Vol. 12, No. 3
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Contributors
Susana Araújo (PhD Sussex, MA Warwick, Lic. Lisbon) is an appointed researcher at the CEC, University of Lisbon. She lectures for the Program in Comparative Studies and is the Principal Investigator of Project CILM -City and Insecurity in Literature and the Media, a three-year project funded by FCT. At CEC, she coordinates the research group LOCUS (Spaces, Places, Landscapes) which embraces several national and international projects. She is the author of the book Dívida Soberana (2012) and co-editor of the book Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/Lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) and of the reader (In)Seguranças no Espaço Urbano: Perspetivas Culturais (2012). She is the editor of the special issue on "Terror and Security" for the Review of International American Studies (2008/2009). She has articles published in recognized peer-reviewed journals such as Atlantic Studies, Symbiosis, Studies in the Novel, Women's Studies, Critical Survey. Many of her essays have also been published as chapters in international book volumes. [introduction]
Denis Beaubois was born in Mauritius in 1970 and lives in Sydney. His works have been exhibited internationally including The TATE Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. He has received numerous awards for his works most notably winning the 1998 Bonn Videonale, and receiving the Judges special prize for the Internationaler Medien kunst preis 2001, ZKM. He has worked as as member of performance ensemble Gravity Feed and the Post Arrivalists. He has also performed with Japanese company Gekidan Kaitaisha in the Drifting View X in Tokyo. He currently lectures in video art at the College of Fine Arts UNSW. [cover photo]
Adam Brown is a Lecturer in Media, Communication and Public Relations at Deakin University, Australia, and works as a volunteer at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne. He is the author of Judging ‘Privileged’ Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation and the ‘Grey Zone’ (Berghahn, forthcoming) and co-author of Communication, New Media and Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2011). Intensely interested in human and animal rights issues, Adam’s interdisciplinary research has spanned Holocaust representation across various genres, surveillance and film, mediations of rape, digital children’s television culture, and new media. Academia profile. [article]
Tony Chalkley is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Deakin University, Geelong. His PhD thesis describes how Organisational Ethnography has been used discover how Housing Services Officers and Senior Managers both understand and experience major change associated with the shift from ‘public’ housing to ‘welfare’ housing. Tony is currently researching the intersection of communication, new/social media and education, and recently co-authored the study Communication, New Media and Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2011). [article]
Ana Raquel Fernandes holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has published two monographs: What about the Rogue? Survival and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature and Culture (Peter Lang 2011; Honourable Mention at ESSE Book Award 2012) and O Pícaro e o Rogue (Colibri, 2006). She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. She has been awarded a grant by the Science and Technology Foundation to carry out research for her Postdoctoral work on the short story in contemporary British and Portuguese women’s writing. The research project is being developed in collaboration with the Cátedra Gil Vicente, the University of Birmingham, UK. Since 2010, Dr Fernandes has been working at ISLA Campus Lisboa – Laureate International Universities. [article]
Roel Griffioen is an editor for Kunstlicht and is also currently enrolled in the Visual Arts, Media and Architecture MPhil programme at VU University, Amsterdam. He studied journalism and art history. Frequently publishing as both a journalist and researcher, Griffioen’s main topic of research is the post-war city in the Netherlands. [article]
Sophie Halliday is a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Her thesis investigates how 21st century science fiction television has engaged with issues of American subjectivity within a wider cultural context. Her research interests are in science fiction, television studies and video games. She has recently published in a special ‘Telefantasy’ issue of MeCCSA’s ‘Networking Knowledge’ (co-editor with Rhys Owain Thomas). Forthcoming publications include a contribution to the edited collection Dramatising Disaster. [article]
Susana S. Martins is an FCT-Portugal postdoctoral research fellow both at the Institute for Art History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Her early training as an art historian was followed by two years working as museum assistant curator. She holds a PhD in photography and cultural studies from the Catholic University of Leuven. She has been teaching courses on photography and communication semiotics and her recent work includes topics such as photography, tourism, travel books, exhibition display, contemporary art, political representations and national identities. [introduction]Lori M. Martindale is a PhD candidate at Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (EGS), in Switzerland. Lori earned an MA in English Studies from Western Washington University. Based in the US, she teaches various Literature and Composition classes at WCC. She has presented her written work on philosophy and literature at such places as The University of Bristol, in England. Her research is in the disciplines of comparative world literature, critical theory, continental aesthetic philosophy, High Renaissance Drama, 19th c. gothic literatures, modern literature & poetry, teaching of literature in English, writing, technology, and rhetoric. [article]
Jacinta Maria Matos is Associate Professor in the Department of Anglo-American Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She holds an MA from Birmingham University, supervised by David Lodge, on George Orwell’s Nonfiction Narratives. Her doctoral thesis on English Travel Writing from World War II to the 1990’s was published in Portugal by Edições Afrontamento in 1999. She has published both in Portugal and abroad on Travel Writing as well as on George Orwell, Daniel Defoe and V. S. Naipaul. Her main research interests are in the area of nonfiction narratives, contemporary English Travel Writing, Postcolonial Studies and Urban Studies. She is a member of the research project ‘City and (In)security in Literature and the Media’, Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, and is currently writing a book on George Orwell. [article]
Pedro Moura is a PhD student (FLUL, Lisbon) with a project on contemporary Portuguese comics under the interdisciplinary gaze of Trauma Studies and Affect Theory. In relation to comics, he also works as a teacher, critic, exhibition curator and the promoter of the Portuguese Conferences on Comics. A parallel current project is Rei Rubro, an online Portuguese-language magazine of essays on comics, illustration and animation. He has also written for documentaries (including one on Portuguese comics), animation, comics and other stuff. [article]
Johannes Voelz is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany, and currently a Humboldt Foundation research fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson’s Challenge (University Press of New England, 2010) and has co-edited three essay collections. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Literary History, Comparative American Studies, and Religion & Literature. [article]
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