Robert Alexander is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. A former reporter, his academic work has appeared in Literary Journalism Studies, Language and Communication, Semiotic Inquiry/Recherches Smiotiques, and Criticism, as well as in the book Global Literary Journalism.
Pablo Calvi, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Stony Brook University, New York, is the first non-native English speaker to receive a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in the history of the Pulitzer prizes. He is the Associate Director for Latin America of the Marie Colvin Center at Stony Brook University. His long-form journalism has appeared in The Believer and Guernica magazine. His story Secret Reserves was listed in Houghton-Mifflins notable Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2016, edited by Robert Atwan, Bill Bryson, Jonathan Franzen, and Rachel Kushner.
Carlos A. Corts-Martnez is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO. He has earned a certificate in qualitative research, a minor in college teaching, an MA in Latin American literature, and a BA in journalism and mass communication. He has journalism experience in magazines, television, and radio, and he has taught undergraduate courses for more than five years. His research focuses on media sociology, news storytelling, and comparative critical studies.
Tobias Eberwein, PhD, is a Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria-Universitt in Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on the fields of media accountability and media governance, journalism and media change, as well as transcultural communication. He also acts as a visiting lecturer at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Hamburg Media School in Germany.
Fiona Giles, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she teaches creative nonfiction and feature journalism. She is the co-editor, with Sue Joseph and Bunty Avieson, of Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir (Routledge, 2017) and is writing a book on Literary Journalism in a Multimedia Age (Routledge, 2019).
Berkley Hudson is Associate Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO, where he has taught since 2003. He earned his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For twenty-five years, including at the Los Angeles Times, he worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist. A media historian, his work has been published in journals such as Southern Cultures and Literary Journalism Studies. He is immediate past editor-in-chief of Visual Communication Quarterly.
Christine Isager, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she teaches writing and rhetorical criticism. Her interest in Gonzo journalism dates back to her doctoral dissertation from 2006, Writers Who Make a Scene, on Gnter Wallraff and Hunter S. Thompsons influence on first-person narrative journalism in Denmark. Since then, her work in the field of literary journalism has appeared in Literary Journalism Studies and Rhetorica Scandinavica: Journal of Scandinavian Rhetoric Studies.
Joy Jenkins is a postdoctoral research fellow in digital news at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in journalism from the University of Missouri. Jenkins research focuses on the sociology of news work, the role of local media in facilitating engagement, and feminist media studies. Her work has been published in Journalism Studies, Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Feminist Media Studies, among others.
A journalist for more than thirty-five years working in Australia and the UK, Sue Joseph, PhD, began working as an academic at the University of Technology Sydney in 1997. As a Senior Lecturer, she now teaches and supervises journalism and creative writing in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her fourth book, Behind the Text: Candid Conversations with Australian Creative Nonfiction Writers, was released in October 2016. She is currently Reviews Editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
Joonas Koivukoski is a grant researcher and a doctoral candidate in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Koivukoskis dissertation deals with mediated political humor. He also teaches courses about the same topic. Koivukoskis current project is about producers of journalistic TV news satire.
Christopher Kremmer first encountered the work of Hunter S. Thompson as an undergraduate in Australia in the 1970s. He later worked as a foreign correspondent covering Afghanistan, Iran, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam. His book-length reportage includes such titles as The Carpet Wars, Inhaling the Mahatma, and Bamboo Palace. Dr. Kremmer teaches literary and narrative journalism at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and researches truth claims in nonfiction and fictional historiography.
Jacqueline Marino is Associate Professor of Journalism at Kent State University, OH. She has written about the digital evolution of storytelling in Journalism and Literary Journalism Studies. Other articles and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, such as Washington Post, Cleveland Magazine, and River Teeth. She is the author of White Coats: Three Journeys Through an American Medical School and the co-editor of Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology.
Monica Martinez is Professor in the Communication and Culture Graduate Program at Uniso, Brazil. She is president of the Brazilian Journalism Researchers Association (SBPJor), and chair of the Research Group in Journalism Theory of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Communication Studies Society (Intercom). She has a PhD in Communication (University of So Paulo), has completed a postdoctoral stay (Methodist University of So Paulo), and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin. She is author of Jornalismo Literrio: Tradio e Inovao (2016).
William McKeen is the author of nine books and the editor of four more. His most recent books are Everybody Had an Ocean (2017), Too Old to Die Young (2015), Homegrown in Florida (2012), Mile Marker Zero (2011), Outlaw Journalist (his biography of Hunter S. Thompson, 2008), Highway 61 (2003), and Rock and Roll is Here to Stay (2000). He teaches at Boston University, MA, where he chairs the Department of Journalism.
Ashlee Nelson recently completed her PhD in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her thesis focuses on the New Journalism covering the 1972 US presidential election. Her research interests include literary journalism, New Journalism, American literature, and comics studies, and she is currently working on a book about women New Journalists. She is the Publicity and Multimedia Chair of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS), and co-editor of the IALJS newsletter.
