Notes on Contributors

1. Harry M. Benshoff is a Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of North Texas. Among his books are Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, Dark Shadows, America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America.
2. John Edgar Browning is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Ph.D. from the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he was an Arthur A. Schomburg Fellow in the American Studies Program. Browning has contracted, co-/edited, or co-/written 12 academic and popular trade books and 40 articles, book chapters, and reviews on subjects that cluster around Cultural Studies, horror, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic. His books include Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, with Caroline J. S. Picart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and two forthcoming volumes, The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Bram Stoker and a book on Dracula for Cornell University Press.
3. Chris Dumas is the author of Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible. His work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Cinema Journal, and Camera Obscura.
4. Steffen Hantke is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature (1994) and editor of Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945 (2007) and American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium (2010). He teaches at Sogang University in Seoul.
5. Adam Charles Hart received his PhD from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation was titled A Cinema of Wounded Bodies: Spectacular Abjection and the Spaces of Modern Horror.
6. Joan Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde (2000; University of Minnesota Press) and numerous articles on horror, experimental, and independent cinema.
7. Kevin Heffernan is Associate Professor in the Division of Film and Media Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is currently writing a book on contemporary East Asian cinema tentatively titled A Wind From the East and another book tentatively titled Porn in the USA: Hidden Empires of American Popular Culture.
8. Matt Hills is Professor of Film and TV studies at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of five books, including Fan Cultures (Routledge 2002), The Pleasures of Horror (Continuum 2005), and Triumph of a Time Lord (IB Tauris 2010). He is also the editor of New Dimensions of Doctor Who (IB Tauris, 2013). Matt has published widely on cult media and fandom, and his recent horror-related work includes contributions to the edited volumes Horror Zone (2010), and Horror After 9/11 (2012).
9. Dale Hudson teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi, specializing in transnational and postcolonial frameworks for understanding contemporary media. His work has appeared in Afterimage, American Studies, Cinema Journal, French Cultural Studies, Screen, and other journals and anthologies. With Patricia R. Zimmermann, he is coauthor of Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (Palgrave, forthcoming in 2015).
10. Daniel Humphrey is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of the book Queer Bergman: Gender, Sexuality and the European Art Film and articles published in Screen, GLQ, Post Script, and Criticism.
11. I.Q. Hunter is Reader in Film Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. His publications include British Trash Cinema (BFI/Palgrave, 2013).
12. Peter Hutchings is Professor of Film Studies at Northumbria University. He is the author of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film, Terence Fisher, The British Film Guide to Dracula, The Horror Film, and The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema.
13. Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His books include Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (MUP, 1996) and Horror, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2001). He is currently writing a history of horror in the 1940s.
14. James Kendrick is an associate professor of Film & Digital Media at Baylor University. He is the author of Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Hollywood Bloodshed: Screen Violence and 1980s American Cinema, and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre. He is also the film and video critic for the website Qnetwork.com.
15. Adam Lowenstein is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also directs the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (2005) and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (forthcoming).
16. Daniel Martin is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Honorary Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University. He is the co-editor of Korean Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
17. Jay McRoy is Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Parkside. He is the author of Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema (Rodopi, 2008), the editor of Japanese Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), and the co-editor, with Richard Hand, of Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2007).
18. Xavier Mendik is Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival and DVD label at Brighton University. He has written extensively on cult and horror traditions, and his publications include the books Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic (2012), 100 Cult Films (with Ernest Mathijs, 2011), The Cult Film Reader (2008), Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 (2004), Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (2002), Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002) and Dario Argento's Tenebrae (2000). Beyond his academic writing, Xavier Mendik also has an established profile as a documentary filmmaker and is currently developing a feature film remake of The House on the Edge of the Park with director Ruggero Deodato.
19. Andrew Hock Soon Ng is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University Malaysia. He is the author of Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives (2004), Interrogating Interstices (2008) and Intimating the Sacred (2011).
20. Ian Olney is an Associate Professor of English at York College of Pennsylvania, where he teaches film studies. He is the author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture (Indiana University Press, 2013), as well as several articles on European cinema and the horror film.
21. Julian Petley is the co-editor (with Steve Chibnall) of British Horror Cinema, and the author of Censorship: a Beginner's Guide, and Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain. He is the chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, a member of the advisory board of Index on Censorship, and of the editorial board of Porn Studies. He is Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University.
22. Caroline Joan S. Picart, graduated, with honors, with a joint Juris Doctor in Law and M.A, in Women's Studies in 2013 from the University of Florida, where she was the Tybel Spivack (Teaching) Fellow in Women's Studies (2012–2013); she is now a practicing attorney and currently a University of Florida Levin College of Law Postdoctoral Public Interest Fellow at the 8th Judicial Circuit in Florida. Before law school, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Florida State University. Her books on film include: Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein; Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror; (with David Frank), Frames of Evil: Holocaust as Horror in American Film; (with Cecil Greek), Monsters In and Among Us: Towards a Gothic Criminology; and (with John Browning), Speaking of Monsters and Dracula in Visual Media.
23. Isabel C. Pinedo is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing (SUNY Press, 1997). Other publications address the fallout of 9/11 in relation to blowback, torture, and affective strategies in commemoration programming.
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