David Kociemba (Editor)

Emerson College (USA)
David Kociemba has taught at five colleges and universities in Massachusetts over the past nine years. Past courses include introductory media history classes and seminars devoted to exploring topics like the representation of physical disability, video art, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. David has previously written for Slayage, Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica: Finding the Way Home, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, A Dragon Ate My Prom (forthcoming), and Teaching with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (forthcoming). He won the 2007 Short Mr. Pointy Award for his article, "'Actually, it explains a lot': Reading the Opening Title Sequences of BtVS." He appeared in the movie Playing Columbine.
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Jes Battis

Simon Fraser University (USA)
Media and pop culture, children's/teen literature, fantasy, television genres, queer representation and gender studies
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Tanya Cochran

Georgia State University (USA)
Literary theory, cultural studies, television studies, religion, feminist approaches
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James Francis Jr.

Texas A&M University (USA)
Short Story Theory, Creative Writing, Identity Construction, Film Studies
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Jacob Held

Marquette University (USA)
Philosophy and psychoanalysis
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Lori C. Patton

Vanderbilt University (USA)
Religious studies, psychology, media fandom, cultural anthropology
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Caroline Ruddell

Brunel University (UK)
Identity and subjectivity in film/TV and culture, splitting and fragmentary characters, psychoanalysis, speech and power
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Cynthia Ryan

Middle Tennessee State University (USA)
Media and pop culture, fan fiction and communities, queer representation and gender studies, classical mythology, technical work/television production, religion/spirituality, fantasy
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Arwen Spicer

University of Oregon (USA)
Lit theory, ecocriticism/literature and environment, science fiction, utopia, dialogism/Bakhtin, and Victorian England
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Jennifer Stokes

University of South Australia (Australia)
Cultural studies, film studies, digital media, feminist theory and animation studies
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Michelle Wauchope

University of South Australia (Australia)
Cultural Studies, Fandom, Media/Television Studies, Popular Music Studies, Communication Studies, textual analysis, linguistic/socio-linguistics, gender studies, mythology and folklore
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