Reconstruction Vol. 12, No. 4
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Contributors
Rebecca A. Adelman is Rebecca A. Adelman is an Assistant Professor of Media & Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); her research and teaching interests include visual culture, citizenship, and cultural studies of terrorism and war. Some of her work on these subjects has appeared in the Journal of Men & Masculinities, Jura Gentium Cinema, and Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Photography and Culture, and the anthology Knowledge and Pain. Her book on the institutions that produce and regulate the American visual culture of the Global War on Terror and the visual practices that animate it is under contract with the University of Massachusetts Press and will appear in 2014. [article]
Emily Auger (PhD) is an independent scholar who taught art history in Canadian and American universities for over twenty years. Her monographs include Tech-Noir Film A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres (Intellect 2011), The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics In and Beyond the Arctic(McFarland 2005, 2011), and Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics (McFarland 2004, 2011). She has also published numerous papers on tarot, film, and literature, and is the founder and area chair for Tarot at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference. [personal site] [article]
Richard Brock is currently an instructor in English at Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada, where he has recently taught, among other things, a community-based experiential learning class on HIV/AIDS and writing, and a class on constructions of space in video games. His work on the intersections of postcolonial literary studies with visual culture and with medical humanities has appeared in Cultural Critique, Canadian Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and a number of other venues. [article]
Molly Brost is a Contract Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, where she teaches composition and literature courses. She holds a Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, as well as an M.A. in English from Colorado State University and a B.S. in Journalism and English from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her scholarly essays on film and media studies have appeared in Americana: the Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-Present); Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies; and in the edited collections The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror and Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-first Century Programming. [article]
Vincent Caruso received his MFA in poetry from University of Miami in 2011. His poems have appeared in Technoculture, Prick of the Spindle, and Blast Furnace. He also works in a multimedia genre he invented of “filmed poems.” [article]
Alan Ramón Clinton bio [article]
Dr. Angela M. Eikenberry, PhD is an associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she also serves as the advisor for the nonprofit concentration in the MPA program. Her main research interests include philanthropy and nonprofit organizations and their role in democratic governance. Her book, Giving Circles: Philanthropy, Voluntary Association, Democracy (Indiana University Press) won the CASE 2010 John Grenzebach Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy. [article]
Maria Engberg is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean at the School of Planning and Media Design at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Research Affiliate at the Augmented Environments Lab. She received a Ph.D from Uppsala University in 2007. She is the author of several articles on digital culture and literature, and the co-editor of the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature (2012). She currently works in media theory, digital culture, locative media, and on Augmented Reality design for aesthetic experiences. Her forthcoming book is Polyaesthetics: Experiencing Digital Cultures. [article]
Thomas Fink, Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia, is the author of A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001), seven poetry collections, including Peace Conference (Marsh Hawk, 2011), and co-editor of “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. His paintings hang in various collections. [article]
Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of American Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her primary research interests are modernist and postmodern fiction, literary theory, autobiography, and the impact technologies have on literature and culture at large. She is the author of, among others, Eros, Logos, and (Fictional) Masculinity (1998), and editor of collections of essays: Criticism in the Twilight Zone (1990), and Authority Matters: Rethinking Cultural Production, 1900 to the Present (2009; with Stephen Donovan and Rolf Lundén). She is currently completing a study on contemporary multimodal fiction and has started a project on the history of kitsch. [article]
John Grzinich has worked since the early 1990s as an artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, image, site, and collaborative social structures. His interest and work with sound and performance combines such divergent methods as field recording, kinetic sculpture, electro-acoustic composition, spatial perception and acoustics, filmmaking, group workshops and exercises in listening. His compositions have been published on international labels such as: SIRR, Staalplaat, Erewhon, Intransitive, Cut, Elevator Bath, CMR, Orogenetics, Mystery Sea, Invisible Birds and others. He lives in Estonia and works as a program coordinator for MoKS, a non-profit artist-run center. An overview of his work can be found online at: www.maaheli.ee. [content contributed]
Helena Gurfinkel is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches gender and sexuality studies, Victorian literature and culture, and literary and cultural theory. She has completed a book manuscript entitled Outlaw Fathers: Queering Patriarchy in Victorian and Modern British Literature and published a number of articles in masculinity studies, diaspora studies, queer theory, and Victorian and modern literature. She is a co-editor of UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the- Century Theatre (Rivendale Press, U. K.) [article]
Corinne Thiessen Hepher is an MFA candidate in the graduate program at the University of Lethbridge. Her art practice includes sculpture, drawing, video and performance investigating transgressive bodies and deviant behaviour. Corinne incorporates grotesque imagery and kinetic objects to address gender, politics, social structures and interpersonal relationships. Using machines to control, enhance, protect or correct the body addresses powerlessness, superhuman abilities, the uncanny and collective fears. [art]
Tomas Jonsson is an artist, curator and writer who is interested in issues of social agency in processes of urban growth and transformation. Tomas is pursuing a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University, with an emphasis on socially engaged planning. Tomas recently participated in the Border Cities Kolleg at the Bauhaus Institute in Dessau, Germany, where he developed projects with creative and precarious communities in Tallinn and Helsinki. Tomas has worked for a number of artist run centres in Calgary, including The New Gallery, EMMEDIA and M:ST Festival. [content contributed]
Brian Macaskill is an Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University, where he offers seminars in literary theory, Modernism, and contemporary Anglophone literatures, in which subject areas he has quite widely written. He can be contacted at bmacaskill@jcu.edu. The current article is part of a set whose imbricated members are beginning to appear: in print, mostly, given that they take the page as their unit of composition. [article]
Patricia Mooney Nickel is a political sociologist in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. Her main research interests include critical social theory, philanthropy and the non-profit sector, and the sociology of governance. She is the author of Public Sociology: Policy, Politics, and Power (Paradigm Publishers 2012) and the editor of North American Critical Theory after Postmodernism: Contemporary Dialogues (Palgrave 2012). [article]
Mrs. Ifeoma Udoye is a lecturer at Anambra State University, Uli. She is a graduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria and later had her Masters Degree in Linguistics at the same university. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D studies in Linguistics. Ifeoma is a researcher with varied interests. [article]
Yules Wai is Canadian Chinese born in Toronto ON, and is currently in his pursuit of his BFA in Media Arts and Digital Technologies at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He incorporates digital media and sound through his leading subjective practice: live interactive performance, and time-based installation. Focusing on sacred sacrificial rituals through the notion of burdens, he attempts to unify and combine traditional beliefs, practices, and customs presented throughout our universal ceremonial conventions. He states: “while spirituality reinforces the idea of human experience, my practice deals with freedom of our body, heart and soul, both physically and emotionally. My work attempts to bring the viewers in a state of reflection and uplifting experience.”
Sage Wheeler is a practicing artist in Calgary, Alberta. Graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design, she has since worked in drawing, fibre, performance and video. She uses these various media to explore connections between oft discussed paradigms such as psychology, religion, and politics. She currently works teaching art to adults with disabilties, which has permeated her practice to its benefit. [content contributed]
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