Henry Jenkins was the founder and co-director of the MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies and now serves as the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He has published more than fifteen books on various aspects of new media, popular culture, and public life, starting with Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture in 1992. His most recent books have included Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the Literature Classroom; Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture; and the forthcoming By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth […]
[…]Theory & Critique, Screen, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Currents in Electronic Literacy, Science Fiction Studies, and in the anthology Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto Press, 2004). He is also co-editor of the anthology Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability (University Press of America, […]
[…]to Hitchcock (Cambridge, 1994) and Ideology and Inscription: ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge, 1998). [outdated] THOMAS COHEN currently chairs the English Department at the State University of New York, Albany. His books include Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge, 1994) and Ideology and Inscription: ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge, […]
[…]spaces and online systems for massively collaborative play. She is a PhD candidate in performance studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is also a member of the Alpha Lab for Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She teaches game design (San Francisco Art Institute) and contemporary games culture (UC Berkeley), with an emphasis on how these two fields intersect with live performance, social networks, and public policy. Jane McGonigal is an academic games researcher and pervasive game designer. She specializes in multiplayer games for public spaces and online systems for massively collaborative play. She is a PhD […]
Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching have to do with representations of gender, race, and feminism in contemporary literature, television, and film. Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching have to do with representations of gender, race, and feminism in contemporary literature, television, and […]
[…]. His publications revolve around the fields of American literature, poststructuralism, media studies, and literature and science. Hanjo Berressem teaches American Literature and culture at the University of Cologne. He is the author of Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text and Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz’s Fiction with Lacan . His publications revolve around the fields of American literature, poststructuralism, media studies, and literature and […]
Karim A. Remtulla is a doctoral student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the impact of the virtual, multimodal, and framgented on adult learning and identity. Karim A. Remtulla is a doctoral student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the impact of the virtual, multimodal, and framgented on adult learning and […]
[…]Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2010). Christopher Leise is assistant professor of English at Whitman College. He is most recently the co-editor of Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, […]
Ara Wilson is an anthropologist who has taught transnational feminist studies at the Ohio State University since 1997. A former managing editor of Socialist Review, she is the author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the World City (California 2004). Ara Wilson is an anthropologist who has taught transnational feminist studies at the Ohio State University since 1997. A former managing editor of Socialist Review, she is the author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the World City (California […]
[…]and Canadian literary histories. He is editor-in-chief of the Review of International American Studies. Michael Boyden is a visiting scholar at the Harvard University English Department. He received his PhD in April 2006 from the University of Leuven with a dissertation entitled “Predicting the Past: The Functions of American Literary History.” His current research focuses on issues of language and multilingualism in American and Canadian literary histories. He is editor-in-chief of the Review of International American […]