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Matthew Abraham is professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Out of Bounds: Academic Freedom and the Question of Palestine (Bloomsbury, 2013), Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave, 2014), the co-editor of The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion (Parlor, 2013), and the editor of Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the IsraelPalestine Conflict (Parlor, 2015). Abraham is the co-editor of the special issue of Cultural Critique on Edward Said and After: Toward a New Humanism (2007).
Isolina Ballesteros is professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, and the Graduate Center of CUNY. Her teaching focuses on Spanish Cultural Studies (nineteenth and twentieth century literature and film), Comparative Literature, and Spanish and European film. She is currently the Chair of the Film Studies Program of Baruch College. She is the author of three books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiogrfico en la nueva novela espaola (1994), Cine (Ins)urgente: textos flmicos y contextos culturales de la Espaa postfranquista (2001), and Immigration Cinema in the New Europe (2015).
Mark Bould is reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England, and co-editor of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television and the monograph series Studies on Global Science Fiction. His most recent books are Solaris (2014), SF Now (2014), and Africa SF (2013).
Elizabeth Montes Garcs is professor of Latin American literature and film at the University of Calgary. Her most recent publications are Relocating Identities in Latin American Culture (2007) and Violence in Contemporary Argentine Literature and Film: 19892005 (2010, with Carolina Rocha).
Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at Exeter University. Her scholarly focus is French cinema and her publications include: French National Cinema (1993, 2005); Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (2004); Luc Besson (1998); French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film (2010); Nikita (2010); Les Diaboliques (2005). She is also the author of Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (currently in its fourth edition).
Jennifer L. Jenkins is professor of English at the University of Arizona and Director of the Bear Canyon Center for Southwest Humanities. She is Principal Investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project to repatriate midcentury educational films about Native peoples by recording new, culturally competent narrations in a process termed tribesourcing. She holds the 2019 Ctedra Primo Feliciano Velzquez Chair of History at the Colgio de San Luis in San Luis Potos, Mexico, where she is developing a comparative study of theatres and cinemagoing behaviors in railroad towns in the United States and Mexico, 18961930.
Thomas Leitch is professor of English at the University of Delaware. His most recent books are Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age (2014) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. He is currently working on The History of American Literature on Film.
Hilary Neroni is professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. She is the author of The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Film and Television (2015), Feminist Film Theory and Clo from 5 to 7 (2016), and The Violent Woman (2005), and has also published numerous essays on female directors, violence in film, and feminist theory.
R. Barton Palmer is an independent scholar. He is the author, editor, or general editor of more than sixty academic books on various literary and cinematic subjects, as well as the author of more than seventy-five book chapters, journal articles, and encyclopedia entries. He serves as the general editor of Traditions in World Cinema and Traditions in American Cinema at Edinburgh University Press, and as general/founding editor of book series at four other academic presses.
Homer B. Pettey is professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. With R. Barton Palmer, he co-edited two volumes on film noir for Edinburgh University Press (2014), which are now in paperback (2015). With Palmer, he also co-edited a collection on Hitchcocks Moral Gaze for State University of New York Press (2016). They also have volumes on Biopics and British National Identity (SUNY, 2016) and French Literature on Screen (Manchester University Press, 2017). Pettey serves as the general/founding editor for two book series, Global Film Studios and International Film Stars, for Edinburgh University Press.
Allen H. Redmon is professor of English and Film Studies at Texas A & M University, Central Texas. He is the author of Constructing the Coens: from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis (2015) and co-editor of Clint Eastwoods Cinema of Trauma: Essays on PTSD in the Directors Films (2017).
Ian Scott is Distinguished Visiting Professor in Film and Culture at Central Washington University and senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of, among other works, American Politics in Hollywood Film (2nd edn; 2011), and has written extensively on Hollywood political movies. He also works in documentary film and his first collaboration with docdays Production, Projections of America was shown on ARTE in Europe in 2014, CBC in Canada in 2015, and at film festivals across the world in 201516. His book, The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism (co-authored with Henry Thompson) was published in 2016 with Manchester University Press and is the result of an extensive series of interviews with the director held over a number of years.
