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Reconstruction Vol. 13, No. 3/4

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Contributors

Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discouse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the humorous campus novel Oy Pioneer!. [article]

Evgeniya Boklage is a doctoral student at the Free University of Berlin and a research fellow at the European Journalism Observatory. In her dissertation she examines Russian LGBT blogging community and their uses of social media for the purposes of self-representation and mobilization of social action. She has been teaching courses on journalism, new media, and media and communication research methods at the Free University of Berlin and University of Helsinki. [article]

Tara Brabazon is the Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. Previously, Tara has held academic positions in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. She has won six teaching awards, including the National Teaching Award for the Humanities, and has published 13 books and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters. For further information about Tara, please refer to www.brabazon.net. [article]

Miranda J. Brady, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Her work takes a critical/cultural approach and explores the construction of identity in the media and in mediated cultural institutions. In particular, her focus is on race and ethnicity with an emphasis on Indigenous identity. She has published in The Journal of Nature and Culture, Television and New Media, American Communication Journal and in various anthologies. [article]

James H. Clinton, a lifelong student of wilderness survival, was commissioned to write this piece for a Drake University Capstone course on “Mobilities.” He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and currently works at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. A previous article authored by Clinton, “Evolution, Popular Culture, and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge” appeared in Reconstruction 10.4, “What is Outsider Criticism?” [article]

Kane Xavier Faucher currently teaches at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. His research is eclectic, and spans information theory, continental thought (especially Deleuze), labour studies, post-Marxist critique of neoliberalism, social media, big data, the works of Jorge Luis Borges, asemic writing, documentation, and propaganda. He is also a novelist with his most recent trilogy (The Infinite Library, The Infinite Atrocity, and The Infinite Grey). His most recent monograph is Metastasis and Metastability: A Deleuzian Approach to Information (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2013), and he is currently working on a second book (Datapolitik: From the Algorithm to Alienation in the Age of Big Data) and a co-edited volume on Deleuze and Guattari on Economics. News about his research and publications is available via his webpage: http://kanexfaucher.weebly.com/. [intro and article]

Anh Hua received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.A. and Ph.D. in Women‘s Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women‘s Studies at San Diego State University, California, USA. Her areas of research include: Asian and Black Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Postcolonial Feminisms, Migratory and Diasporic Identities, Communities and Cultural Productions (literature, film and the visual arts). She has published in the journals Asian Women, African and Black Diaspora, Journal of International Women‘s Studies, Canadian Woman‘s Studies, j_spot, and in the anthologies Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home and Emotion, Place and Culture. [article]

Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan (AK Muneer Hudawi) is a graduate of Darul Huda Islamic University in Kerala with Masters in Islamics and Contemporary Studies. Currently he is examining devotional performance literature and Keralite Muslim self-fashioning for his PhD at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He is also a 2013-14 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include comparative literature & culture studies, Anglophone Arab literature, readings in contemporary Islam, classical Islamic sciences, minority discourse and critical theory. [article]

Email: akmuneer@gmail.com/akmuneer@berkeley.edu

Dr Elaine Laforteza is a Cultural Studies lecturer at Macquarie University, City Campus. For her work, she has received awards including the “Distinguished Service, Young Alumni” award from Macquarie University and the Global Filipino Youth Awards for Academia/Education. Since 2002, she has written for the newspaper, The Philippine Community Herald. [article]

Sébastien Lefait is lecturer in English at the University of Corsica. Besides articles about films and about Shakespeare’s plays, he has published articles about the new forms of film adaptation. His work also focuses on the complex relationship between surveillance and audiovisual productions. On the topic, he is the author of Surveillance on Screen: Monitoring Contemporary Films and Television Programs (Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, 2012). He has recently coedited a volume entitled In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). His current research focuses on the use of surveillance in TV series and in the theater and on the assets of surveillance in the context of cinematic adaptation. [article]

Kevin Moberly is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, New Media, and Game Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His research focuses on understanding how computer-enabled manifestations of popular culture reflect, contribute to, and transform contemporary cultural and political discourses. In particular, he is interested in the way that contemporary computer games encode labor, often blurring already uneasy distinctions between work and play. He is currently working on a number of academic projects, including a book-length study about medieval-themed computer games, which he is co-authoring with his brother, Brent Moberly. [article]

Salma Monani, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department. She is co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice (with Steve Rust and Sean Cubitt, Routledge 2012). She has also published her research, which includes explorations of film and environmental justice, film festival studies, and indigenous eco-activism, in journals such as ISLE, The Journal of Nature and Culture, and Local Environment, and in various anthologies. [article]

Fariba NoorBakhsh is a PhD Candidate at Tehran University, and has been the instructor of English Literature at several universities in Iran for ten years. For the time being, she is a lecturer at Kharazmi University. [article]

Marc Ouellette [bio] [article]

Delores B. Phillips currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Old Dominion University, where she teaches and conducts research in postcolonial theory and literature. Her work focuses on the affective connections that people build in culinary writing and uses literature written in Anglophone diasporas to expose the limitations of the strategies that people undertake to address conditions of loss and displacement. [article]

Anthony T. Sansone holds a Masters degree in Technical Communication and Information Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. From Milwaukee, Wis., he has worked as a web designer and developer, technical writer, proposal writer and graphic designer for more than 15 years and now lives in the Chicago area. [article]

Sigmund Shen is an Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he has taught composition, research, literature, and interdisciplinary liberal arts seminars. He holds a B.A. in English Writing from Queens College / CUNY and a Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University. He has given conference presentations about literature, cinema, and composition; and published essays about zombie films, video games, and higher education policy. With co-authors Paolo Javier and Karl Joseph Ufert, he is currently working on a book about ideology in daikaiju eiga (大怪獣映画, “large mysterious creature cinema.”) [article]

Toni Simon is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn. Her illustrated book of prose poetry Earth After Earth was published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2012. Over 80 of her illustrations appear in Contradicta: Aphorisms (Green Integer, 2010) by Nick Piombino. She has exhibited her drawings at the Drawing Center and at the AIR Gallery in NYC. Her video animations, paintings and sculpture can be viewed at http://tonisimonart.blogspot.com. [art]

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