Notes on Contributors
Emily-Rose Carr
is an early-career researcher and communications professional in Melbourne, Australia. She completed her Master of Philosophy (Literature) in 2017 at the Australian Catholic University, where her thesis examined manifestations of feminine sublime theory in violent contemporary American fiction. She went on to complete a Graduate Certificate in Arts (Gender Studies) from the University of Melbourne. Emily-Rose has tutored at the Australian Catholic University and hopes to go on to pursue a PhD in literature.
Ghada Saad Hassan
holds a BA in English Arts and Human Sciences, Suez Canal University and is an MA candidate at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at Cairo University. She is currently working on a thesis in the field of Comparative Literature. She is also a freelance English copywriter and an English History and Literature demonstrator.
Woodrow Hood
is the Director of Film Studies at Wake Forest University and specializes in film and theatre. He has presented his scholarship at Oxford University, the University of Amsterdam, Columbia College in Chicago, and many other institutions. He has written for national and international journals and publications such as The London Journal of Film and Video, Cinemascope, Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, Technoculture, Culture Unplugged, and Postmodern Culture.
María Ibáñez-Rodríguez
holds a degree in English Philology (2009), an MA in Literary Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2013), and an ME in Secondary Education (2015). Her research examines the political aspects of the Gothic genre in its evolution towards the contemporary graphic novel by focusing primarily on the topography of the Gothic in relation to the concept of “heterotopias” developed by Michel Foucault. Her research interests include intermediality, horror, fantasy literature, popular literature and culture, and comic studies.
Nicole M. Jowsey
received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University at Buffalo in 2011. She is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Interdisciplinary Studies at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. Her current research is focused on examining the relationship between the Ancient and Modern epic hero, specifically Achilleus and Harry Potter, using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger.
Marta Moore
teaches English and Humanities at Collin College in Texas. She was born in Budapest and grew up in the shadow of the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. She earned MA degrees in both Russian and English from Eotvos Lorland University, and a PhD in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Pedro Querido
(MA in English Literature, University of London, 2009; MA in Teaching English and German, New University of Lisbon, 2012) is a PhD student in Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and the recipient of a scholarship from the Portuguese Funding Agency (fct). His PhD research focuses on the interplay between the theme of old age and the philosophical concept of the absurd in radio art, and his research interests include twentieth-century fiction and drama, comparative literature, and the absurd in literature.
Ana Romão
is a PhD candidate in the International PhD Program in Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and holds a scholarship from the fct. She is a researcher for Project cilm (City and (In)Security in Literature and Media) at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. She recently co-organized the International Conference “Endangered Bodies: Representing and Policing the Body in Western Culture.” She currently conducts research on the topic of the representation of military women in contemporary visual culture.