Raluca ANDREESCU is Assistant Professor at the University of Bucharest. She holds an MA in American Studies and a PhD in Philology from the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, both with the University of Bucharest. Her main research interests are in the area of American Cultural Studies, representations of the US legal system in American literature and film, Gothic literature and culture, contemporary women’s studies.
Email: raluca.andreescu@lls.unibuc.ro
Hager BEN DRISS obtained a BA in English, an MA in English literature, and a PhD in postcolonial and gender studies from the Faculty of Arts, La Manouba University in Tunis. She is Assistant Professor at the Institut Prépartoire aux Etudes Littéraires et Sciences Humaines, Université de Tunis. She teaches English, American, and Anglophone literature and her research addresses mainly South Asian and South African literary production. Ben Driss is the editor of Knowledge: Trans/Formations (Tunis: Sahar, 2013). She is the Coordinator of Gender Studies, a multi-disciplinary group affiliated to PHILAB (Laboratoire de Philosophie, Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis, Université de Tunis). She is the editor of Women, Violence, and Resistance (Tunis, Arabesque, 2017).
Email: bendrisshager@gmail.com
Estella Antoaneta CIOBANU is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania. She teaches Identity and Gender in the USA, Culture and Religion in the USA, Postmodernism, and British and American Cultural Icons. Her academic interests include iconization studies and gendered representations of the body in literature, medieval theatre, cartography, anatomo-medical practices and the arts. She is the author of The Spectacle of the Body in Late Medieval England (2012), The Body Spectacular in Middle English Theatre (2013) and over thirty articles, and co-author (with Petru Golban) of A Short History of Literary Criticism (2008).
Email: estella_ciobanu@yahoo.com
Jennifer HENKE is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bremen where she received her PhD for the thesis Unsex Me Here (WVT 2014) on Shakespeare, gender, and film. She is currently working on her second book that deals with obstetrics in literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Her research interests include science and literature, the history of medicine, post-humanism, and visual culture.
Email: j.henke@uni-bremen.de
Andrew HOWE is Professor of History at La Sierra University, where he teaches courses in film history and theory, popular culture, and American history. Recent scholarship includes book chapters on cultural artifacts associated with HBO’s Game of Thrones, the role of cemeteries and burial rites in the western genre, and the transformation of the Mohican myth in Avatar. Current research projects involve the rhetoric of fear employed during the 1980s killer bee invasions of the American Southwest, as well as the debate over the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas. These two works are conceived of as chapters in a book-length project exploring the manner in which societies translate environmental events by employing the familiar rhetorical strategies and vocabularies of existing, sociological problems.
Email: ahowe@lasierra.edu
Anca-Luminiţa IANCU is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. She received her MA in English Literature (2005) and her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition (2009) from the University of Louisville, KY, USA. Dr. Iancu has published numerous articles on American literature and culture; she is the author of a book on literacy practices of 19th-century European-American immigrant women, a volume of translations of Kate Chopin’s short fiction, and several books on English for Specific Purposes. Her research interests include American literature, gender studies, literacy, ethnic studies, and academic writing.
E-mail: ancaian@yahoo.com
Aitor IBARROLA-ARMENDARIZ teaches courses in ethnic relations, academic writing and film adaptation at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. He has published articles on minority and immigrant narratives, the pedagogy of literature and cinema, processes of cultural hybridisation, and trauma fiction. He was the Director of the Erasmus Mundus MA Program in Migrations and Social Cohesion (MISOCO) from 2009 to 2014 and was Head of the Modern Languages and Basque Studies Dept., 2012-15. He has edited several volumes: Fiction and Ethnicity in North America (1995), Entre dos mundos (2004), Migrations in a Global Context (2007), On the Move in English Studies (2016). His translations of the works of Ambrose G. Bierce into Spanish have received several awards. Currently, he is working on a volume of essays on minority authors and trauma fiction in the U.S.
Email: aitor.ibarrola@deusto.es
Anca-Simina MARTIN is a PhD candidate in the field of Philology at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu. Since 2016, she has been working as an adjunct junior lecturer in the Department of Anglo-American and German Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Arts, teaching English to non-philological students. Her main area of research is William Shakespeare’s bawdy language. Ms Martin is particularly interested in analysing the extent to which Romanian translators have succeeded in recreating the most problematic of Shakespeare’s ribald puns in their first language. She has published work in many leading philology journals and reviews.
Email: ancasiminamartin@gmail.com
Merritt MOSELEY is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of volumes on five contemporary British novelists and the editor of Booker Prize Novels 1969-2005 (Gale, 2006).
Email: moseley@unca.edu
Adriana NEAGU is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. She is the author of Continental Perceptions of Englishness, ‘Foreignness’ and the Global Turn (2017), Sublimating the Postmodern Discourse: toward a Post-Postmodern Fiction in the Writings of Paul Auster and Peter Ackroyd (2001), In the Future Perfect: the Rise and Fall of Postmodernism (2001), and of numerous critical and cultural theory articles. Dr Neagu has been the recipient of several pre- and postdoctoral research awards. Previous academic affiliations include an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and visiting positions at Oxford University, University of Bergen, University of East Anglia, and University of London. Her teaching areas are diverse, combining literary and cultural studies disciplines. Her main specialism is in the poetics of modernist and postmodernist discourse, postcolonial theory and the literatures of identity, and translation theory and practice. At present her research centres on new paradigms of cultural identity in the U.K. Since 1999, Dr Neagu has been Advisory Editor of American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania.
Email: adrianacecilianeagu@gmail.com
Ana-Karina SCHNEIDER is Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, holding a PhD in critical theory and Faulkner studies from Lucian Blaga University (2005), and a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College, MA, USA (2004). Her teaching expertise covers mainly English literature from the seventeenth century to the present, alongside literary criticism. Her publications include the monographs Critical Perspectives in the Late Twentieth Century. William Faulkner: A Case Study (Lucian Blaga UP, 2006) and Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction (CSP, 2015), as well as textbooks and study guides for classroom use. She has also published an assortment of articles on the critical reception of various British and American writers in Romania, contemporary prose fiction, literary translation, stereotypes and reading practices, and English Studies in the Romanian higher education. Dr Schneider is Editor-in-Chief of American, British and Canadian Studies, Secretary of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, and Director of her Department’s book club, The Chocolate House.
Email: karina.schneider@ulbsibiu.ro
Kwasu David TEMBO is a PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh’s Language, Literatures, and Cultures department. His research interests include – but are not limited to – comics studies, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, particularly the so-called “prophets of extremity” – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. He also writes poetry and makes experimental electronic music.
E-mail: tembo.kwasu@gmail.com