Jade Alexander
completed her PhD on roller derby culture at Western Sydney University, Australia. While she is interested in women’s sport more broadly—having previously completed research on women’s soccer—this study of roller derby explored celebrity and fandom, as well as gender, the body and injury, sport and performance, and community and sociality. She currently tutors in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies subjects.
Katarzyna Bronk
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature, but specialises in English theatre and drama and, thus, investigated the question of celebrity within it. While researching questions of social hierarchy, ostracism as well as the ways of celebrating certain individuals, she turned her studies towards Humanist Gerontology as seen in theatre. In 2015 she was awarded a research grant from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to study old age and ageing in English theatre/drama between 1660 and 1750, and her first edited collection on this topic, Autumnal Faces: Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives, was published in 2017.
Amber Anna Colvin
is a doctoral student at the University of Memphis in Early Modern British History and the Coordinator of the Lausanne Learning Institute. She is currently finishing her dissertation on the connections and interactions between royal portraiture and conceptions of family in the reigns of Henry VIII, James II, and George II.
Anna Fomichenko
is a graduate of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow. Her research mainly focuses on the 19th-century English literature and celebrity culture. She is currently working as an independent scholar and teaching English as foreign language, as well as doing research in the ELT sphere.
Sandra Mayer
is a senior research and teaching associate in English Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre
Mira Moshe
is a senior lecturer at Ariel University, Israel. Her publications include: a co-edited book, The Walk of Shame (2013), The Emotion Industry (2014), and Temporal Love: Temporality and Romantic Relationships (2016), all published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, NY. In addition, Dr. Moshe has published the results of her work, which has mainly focused on the media, politics, culture and society, in leading academic journals and collections of articles.
Samita Nandy
holds a Doctorate from the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts (MCCA) at Curtin University in Australia. Her work has been sponsored by international and national, federal and provincial, grants and awards in Australia and Canada. Nandy has expertise in postgraduate and honours teaching at University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and Curtin University. She is the Founder of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and her research focuses on celebrities and cultural meanings of fame in a national context.