Federica Castelli
is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Roma Tre, where she is also supervisor and scientific coordinator for the Master Degree in “Studi e Politiche di Genere.” She edits the journals DWF, B@belonline, and Studi Sartriani and is on the governing council of the Italian section for the International Association of Women Philosophers. Her main publications are: Corpi in Rivolta. Spazi urbani, conflitti e nuove forme della politica (2015, Milan: Mimesis), Il pensiero politico di Nicole Loraux (2016, Rome: Iaph Italia), and, as co-editor, Città. Politiche dello spazio urbano (2016, Rome: Iaph Italia).
Chung-jen Chen
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. He was the recipient of the Award for Innovative Research for Young Scholars (2015) and the Golden Tripod Award of Taiwan (2014). Chen was the 2017–18 TUSA visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at Harvard University. His forthcoming book, Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination (Routledge) focuses on the literary and cultural practice of medical realism and the transformation of the production of contagion into a moral economy of surveillance.
Matthew Crippen
is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University and a researcher at Humboldt University’s Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Integrating diverse traditions and disciplines to gain a better grasp of embodied existence, his research revolves around value theory, taken broadly to include aesthetics, ethics, and politics. Crippen has published in a number of specialist and generalist journals in his fields of research, and has a forthcoming book with Columbia University Press, titled Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain and Affective Life. Outside the academy, he has worked as a musician and a gymnastics coach.
Pradeep Dhillon
is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Her research straddles philosophy of language (in the analytic, continental, and Asian traditions) and aesthetics, as they relate to global education. She has a strong interest in Kantian value theory and its significance for human rights education as well as global aesthetic education. Her most recent work is in the
Mădălina Diaconu
is a Dozentin for philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is editor-in-chief of polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren and member of the editorial boards of Studia Phaenomenologica and Contemporary Aesthetics. She authored and (co)edited several books on the phenomenology of senses, the aesthetics of touch, smell, and taste, urban sensescapes, sensory design, and environmental philosophy, such as Phänomenologie der Sinne (2013), Sinnesraum Stadt. Eine multisensorische Anthropologie (2012), Sensorisches Labor Wien. Urbane Haptik- und Geruchsforschung (2011), Senses and the City. An interdisciplinary approach to urban sensescapes (2011).
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has recently finished two books, entitled Body and Event in Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe (Palgrave 2019) and Evental Ontology, Immanent Ethics and Affective Aesthetics in Howard Barker’s Drama (under review). He has published numerous journal articles on Howard Barker, somaesthetics, oil and literature, and medical humanities in journals such as Symploke, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama and Cultural Critique. He is the sole authorized translator of Barker’s works into Persian.
Robert W. Jones II
has a PhD. in English and is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Palm Beach State College. His research interests span the range of American Studies with a specific focus on the relationship of 20th-century literature and the arts to fringe science. He has published work on the American avant-garde, literary theory and criticism, science fiction, and speculative fiction. He has completed one book (now under review) titled, The Only Complete Man in the Industry: William S. Burroughs, Fringe Science, and the Avant-garde.
Noemi Marin
is a Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University. The author of After the Fall: Rhetoric in the Aftermath of Dissent in Post-Communist Times (Peter Lang, 2007), she is co-editor of Rhetorics of 1989: Rhetorical Archaeologies of Political Transitions (Routledge, 2015) and two volumes of Advances in the
Marilyn G. Miller
is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University, where she is currently also a Sizeler Professor Jewish Studies. Author of the Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2004), she edited Tango Lessons. Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice and has published numerous articles on issues of race, slavery, popular culture and emancipatory poetics in inter-American contexts. She is at work on a book-length study titled Port of No Return: Camp Algiers and New Orleans’ Role in the WWII Enemy Alien Internment Program, forthcoming from LSU Press.
Henrik Reeh
holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature and is an Associate Professor of Humanistic Urban Studies and Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. He is a Danish director of 4Cities – Euromaster in Urban Studies (4Cities.eu). A Visiting Professor at Jan Gehl’s Center for Public Space Research, Copenhagen School of Architecture. Among his books on urbanity, art in public space, and cultural theory, Ornaments of the Metropolis: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture was published by the MIT Press. Reeh is also a photographer.
Ilaria Serra
is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her research ranges from Italian cinema and literature to the history of Italian immigration to the United States. She is author of The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Autobiographies (Fordham University Press, 2007) and The Imagined Immigrant: Images of Italian Emigration to the United States between 1890 and 1924 (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009). She is currently working on a book about the last two centuries of Italian history through songs.
Richard Shusterman
is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. His major authored books in English include Thinking through the Body; Body Consciousness; Surface and Depth; Performing Live; Practicing Philosophy; T.S.
Evy Varsamopoulou
is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cyprus. Her areas of research are in comparative literature, contemporary film, ecocriticism, and continental philosophy. Her publications include The Poetics of the Künstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime (Ashgate, 2002; Routledge 2017), articles in Theory, Culture & Society, ISLE, Cogent Humanities, and a chapter on El laberinto del fauno in The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Literature (2019).