M. Emilia Barbosa
is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the Arts, Languages, and Philosophy Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the USA. Dr. Barbosa’s research interests are centered in the cultural production of Latin America and Portuguese-speaking diasporas, particularly focusing on gender and violence in theater, performance, poetry and spoken word, photography, film, testimonio, and artistic multimedia exhibitions. Her latest publications include “Auto-Ethnographic Performance and Self-Empowerment in Sandra Monterroso’s Lix cua rahro/ Tus tortillas, mi amor (2004),” in Otherness: Essays and Studies 8, no. 3 (2021), Special Issue on Auto-Ethnography, ed. Matthias Stephan; and “Performing Violence: Regina José Galindo and Guatemala,” in Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, eds. Gloria E. Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez (Modern Language Association, 2022). E-mail: ebarbosa@mst.edu.
Jon Braddy
received his PhD from the University of Tennessee and is currently an Associate Professor of Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he teaches Queer Theory. Dr. Braddy’s work has appeared in Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression, eds. John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen (Brill, 2019) and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill, 2020). He has served as editor of the Florida Communication Journal. His work is heavily informed by philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies with methodologies grounded on schizoanalysis. Beyond Jon’s printed work, he has produced documentaries on varied topics including Liberation: One Generation After Apartheid, Voices Boricuas, and Puerto Rico Ascending. E-mail: jbraddy@fgcu.edu.
Lawrence Buttigieg
besides pursuing a career in architecture, is also an artist and freelance researcher. In 2014 he was awarded his PhD from Loughborough University. For more than twenty years, the recurrent theme of Buttigieg’s studio-work and research is the representation of womanhood. Consequent to his practice-led doctoral research, he creates box-assemblages—three-dimensional, body-themed, artifacts—through which his association with the female subject is
Assumpta Sabuco Cantó
is Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Spain. PhD Extraordinary (2003). I Prize Blas Infante, “The Island of bitter Rice”(2004), I Prize Marqués de Lozoya Cultural Research Award for “Memory and Territory” (2005). Second Prize in the Globalization, Culture Change Program, University of Venezuela (2005). Her research production focuses on the study of social identities and the relations between art, gender and sexuality. She has participated in the projects Women in Flamenco: Ethnicity, Education and Power to New Professional Challenges (2003–2005) and The Global Flamenco: The Role of Women in International Markets: Entrepreneurs, Strategies and Alliances (2006–2009). Her publications include “Having Art. Professional Development Strategies of the Flamenco Women” (2005); “Music and Gender: Questioning the Musical Creativity” (2005); “Gender and Ethnicity as a Factor of Development. Roma Women in Flamenco” (2006); “Une Lecture Anthropologique sur “Les Voix de la Chair et du Temps” de Pilar Albarracín” (2020); and “Por Outras e Outros Ocañas que Merecemos” (with Leandro Colling, 2021). She is a contributor in Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field, eds. Phil Shining and Nicol Michelle Epple (Brill, 2020) and coordinator of the course Gender and Flamenco: Sexuation Art in the PhD program “Flamenco” (Universidad de Sevilla). E-mail: assumpta@us.es.
Rita Dirks
is Associate Professor of English at Ambrose University in Calgary, Canada. Her PhD dissertation “The Symbolist Novel as Secular Scripture: Huysmans, Wilde, and Bely” explored the idea of French, English, and Russian Modernism and Decadence in relation to religious thought of the fin-du-siècle. Her research and publishing interests in Decadence and Modernism continue into the present, with recent publications on Bliss Carman, Arthur Symons, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Currently, she is finishing a monograph on the novels of Canadian author Miriam Toews. E-mail: ritadirks1974@telus.net.
is Associate Professor at Catholic Theological College at The University of Divinity in Melbourne, where he lectures in interfaith relations, spirituality, and meditation. He has published many articles in these fields. His specialization is in the field of Kashmir Shaivism. Among his books are Abhinavagupta: The Kula Ritual as Elaborated in Chapter 29 of the Tantrāloka (2003); Jesus, the Mantra of God (2005); The Rivers of Paradise, a Spiritual Autobiography (2019); Chakras, Foyers de Conscience-Énergie: Regards sur Une Autre Expérience du Corps Dans l’Hindouisme et le Christianisme (2020); and Vers un Tantra Chrétien: La Rencontre du Christianisme et du Shivaïsme du Cachemire (2021). He is a Catholic priest and a member of the advisory board of the Contemplative Science Centre at Melbourne University, of the international board of editors of The South Asian Journal of Religion and Philosophy, of the Australian Catholic Theological Association, and of the Interfaith Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He is an international lecturer and leads an interfaith community on the outskirts of Melbourne. E-mail: jeandupuche@gmail.com.
Lily Martinez Evangelista
is Associate Professor of Spanish Translation at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. She teaches translation courses related to culture, theory and economics. Her general research interests revolve around subject matter on gender, sexualities and the erotic 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 through the use of the erotic. She is a contributor and co-editor (with Lawrence Buttigieg, Sophia Kanaouti and Robert Scott Stewart) in Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms (Brill 2020), and editor of the forthcoming book compilation in Portuguese, Erotismo, Feminismo e Empoderamento (University of Brasília Press, 2022). E-mail: lmartinez@unb.br.
Dara E. Goldman
was Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her areas of specialization were contemporary Caribbean and Latin American literatures and cultures, gender and sexualities studies and cultural studies. Her teaching included courses related to Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean. She served as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, chaired the Global Diaspora and Migration
Sophia Kanaouti
teaches on politics, social exclusion and gender at the University of Athens and the University of Crete in Greece, and she has taught for the Open University and for Cardiff University. She is a 2018 and 2022 Institute of Critical Social Inquiry Fellow, and a 2021 Democracy and Diversity Fellow of The New School for Social Research, New York. She has published on the political theory of Arendt and Castoriadis, on media and politics, on gender and film. Her two e-Books on social exclusion—addressing institutional social exclusion and its effects on the person—, are being taught at the University of Athens. Her most recent work includes “Feminism and Emotion in Female Heterosexual Desire: Media Stories, Engaging Stories,” in Erotismo, Feminismo e Empoderamento, ed. Lily Martinez (University of Brasília Press, 2022). She has a forthcoming book on Unveiling Structural Elements of Sexism: Women and Politics. A series of short video essays on Arendt and Castoriadis can be reached at her YouTube Channel. E-mail: SKanaouti@hotmail.com.
Şebnem Nazlı Karalı
is a literary critic, writer, performer, editor, translator, and teacher. A graduate of Boğaziçi University, she is completing her doctorate in Writing at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Her main research interests are the literary and dramatic productions of minority-ethnic/migrant communities, with a focus on memory, trauma, and gender. Her publications include “The Case of Einar Wegener Revisited” (2016); “Musical Affect and the Emotion-Cognition Interaction in The Phantom of the Opera” (2020); “Masculine Uses of the Womb in the Renaissance” in Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms, eds. L. Buttigieg, S. Kanaouti, L. M. Evangelista, and R. S. Stewart (Brill 2020); “Circulation of Orhan Pamuk’s Benim Adım Kırmızı [My Name is Red] in Contemporary Chinese-Indonesian Literature” (with A. N. Adji) in text Special Issue 63: Writing Through Things 2: The Thing as Writing Prompt, eds. M. Saward and D. Wain (2021). Her most recent publication is “A Cor do Potencial Erótico: Sula, de Toni Morrison, ou Como Desconstruir o
George Karpathakis
is honorary lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. A graduate of the Australian Film and Television School, he has taught in the field of acting for screen, and film and television production for over twenty years. He has produced and directed both short dramas and documentaries. He specializes in working with visual artists, and his productions include Landscape and You (1996), Elsa King: Fragile Objects (1996), Nalda Searles: A Stitching of Words (2009), Gregory Pryor: Yilgarn Lacunae (2019) and We Must Get Together Sometime (2021). His PhD entitled Rock Stories and the Discourse of Rocks and Rock-collecting (2008) stemmed from his work with landscape artists. He is an occasional writer of articles and is a regular contributor to the Revelation International Film Festival’s academic conferences. He maintains an active practice in filmmaking and photography. E-mail: g.karpathakis@ecu.edu.au.
Nebojsa Kujundzic
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Malta. He served at Dean of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island from 2014 until 2022. His main interests are in the philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and Austrian philosophy. He is the co-author, with Malcom Murray, of Critical Reflection (McGill Queens University Press, 2005) and the author of the unpublished manuscript Time-less Representations. E-mail: nkujundzic@upei.ca.
Phil Shining
is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer focused on sex life cultivation, arts of living, and practice-oriented spirituality. Phil is the founder and director of the Sexuality and Spirituality Research Network (S&SRN), where he creates academic projects and edits its own books. He is an empirical sexual practice researcher assembling critical theory with Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, and Buddhism in training sessions and self-management programs. Phil is, along with Nicol Michelle Epple, co-editor and contributor to the book Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality: An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Field (Brill, 2020). sexualityandspirituality.org / philshining.net. E-mail: contactphilshining@gmail.com.
is a Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Canada. He is the co-author of Philosophizing About Sex (Broadview, 2015), and editor or co-editor of three books: Food for Thought (Cape Breton University Press, 2012), Talk About Sex (Cape Breton University Press, 2013), and Expanding and Restricting the Erotic: A Critique of Current and Past Norms (Brill, 2020). He has also published approximately 40 articles or book chapters in a variety of areas including the philosophy of love and sex, philosophy and literature, the history of philosophy, and bioethics. E-mail: scott_stewart@cbu.ca.
Dionne van Reenen
(PhD) is currently a lecturer and research fellow with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Dionne’s academic articles focus on media cultures and body politics. Prior to 2021, she worked in university administration—during which much of her work was in higher education and institutional policy and practice—, publishing several articles. She is co-author (with jc van der Merwe) of Transformation and Legitimation in Post-Apartheid Universities: Reading Discourses from ‘Reitz’ (Sun Press, 2017), and contributor/co-editor (with John T. Grider) of Exploring Erotic Encounters: The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression (Brill, 2019). Apart from her academic work, Dionne is an independent philosophical practitioner and fellow of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. E-mail: dionnev@sparta.co.za.
Anne Worthington
is a psychoanalyst and senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University in London, UK. Dr. Worthington is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and the Guild of Psychotherapists, and she contributes to their training programmes. She has published many works, including “Beyond Queer,” in Hysteria Today, ed. Anouchka Grose (Karnac, 2016), and she is the editor of Queer Sexualities: Staking Out New Territories in Queer Studies (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012).