Notes on Contributors
Jon Braddy
(Ph.D., University of Tennessee, United States). Jon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. Jon’s main areas of scholarship encompass psycho-analytic theory and queer theory. He is a fan of French philosophy, particularly Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. Beyond his scholarly publications, Jon has written and produced documentaries highlighting time-stamps of individual’s struggles as they confront change in their current milieu; his reel includes “Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid,” and “Puerto Ricans Ascending.” Blending his love of cinema with queer theory, he c0-authored “Queerness Underground: The Abject, the Normal, and Pleasure in Cruising the Leather Bar” with Billy Jean Huff (Brill, 2019).
Lawrence Buttigieg
(Ph.D, Loughborough, United Kingdom). Besides pursuing a career in architecture, Lawrence is also a freelance researcher and artist. Working with the female model, his practice-led research examines concepts of representation, alterity, and selfhood, while challenging the dominant role of male subjectivity in the western world. Lawrence’s more recent work takes the form of three-dimensional, mixed-media, body-themed box-assemblages. Through these he re-negotiates the traditional conventions in the studio, namely the observant position of the male artist and the acquiescence of the female model, by opting for a mutually beneficial collaboration between the two. This work has been presented to the general public at the galleries of Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, and also as part of Ostrale Biennale O19 in Dresden. His works may be viewed at
Sophia Kanaouti
(Ph.D, Cardiff University, United Kingdom). Sophia has a PhD from the Department of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies of The University of Wales, Cardiff, on ‘Reading as Socio-political Practice’. She is a 2018 icsi Fellow of The New School for Social Research, New York, and has published on media and politics, on literature and society and on political theory. She has written two e-Books on social exclusion and the media (forthcoming) for the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and her current interests are on strife and the media (she is also starting a podcast on Scary Women, regarding conflict amongst women as strife amongst the socially excluded). She teaches political theory, media and politics for the University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Her youtube channel is home to a series on Critical Distinctions in Media and Politics,
Şebnem Nazli Karali
(Ph.D. student, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany). Şebnem is enrolled in the Department of Writing at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Her doctoral research investigates playwriting and staging techniques of Armenian-American women in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. She received her master’s degree in Advanced Acting with the thesis “Transsexuality and Transphobia in the Native Plays Staged in Turkey” that carries an archival quality as the first wide-ranging project in the field of Turkish theatre with an emphasis on writing and performing transgender experience. Prior to starting her doctorate, she also worked as a theatre actress at various theatre venues in Istanbul. Her main research interest centres on the dialogue between feminist theory and theatrical representations of genocide in minority-ethnic and migrant communities.
Lily Martinez Evangelista
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States). Lily is an Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia in Brazil. She currently teaches courses in translation related to theory, economics and culture and also has experience teaching courses in Spanish for the Professions. Her general research interests revolve around subject matter on gender and sexuality in the Spanish and Portuguese cultural production in the Americas. She specifically explores the mechanism by which gender is culturally constructed and the context in which a political intent can be achieved. Currently, she is working on a book compilation, in Portuguese, on the erotic potential.
Robert Scott Stewart
(Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada). Scott is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University (Canada) where he has taught since 1990. His published work includes approximately 50 journal articles and book chapters covering a wide range of subjects including ethics, both theoretical and applied, philosophy and literature, and the philosophy of love and sex. He is the contributing editor of two books: Food For Thought: A Multidisciplinary Discussion (2012), with Sue Korol (cbu), and Talk About Sex: A Multidisciplinary Discussion (2013). He recently published a co-written textbook with Laurie Shrage (Florida International University), Philosophizing About Sex (2015). Scott is also a union activist having served on the executive of his local faculty union for almost 30 years, including three years as President. He is currently in his third year as President of the Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers (ansut), which represents more than 1400 academic staff at eight universities in the province of Nova Scotia.
Dionne van Reenen
(Ph.D., University of the Free State, South Africa). Dionne is currently a researcher at the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice at University of the Free State (South Africa). Her research largely focuses on critical studies in identity, subjectivity and relationality. She has also worked at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice in various areas of critical studies in higher education transformation and co-authored Legitimation and Transformation in Post-Apartheid Universities: Reading Discourses from Reitz (Sun Media 2017) with JC van der Merwe.