Expanding and Restricting the Erotic

Besides pursuing a career in architecture, Lawrence Buttigieg (Ph.D., Loughborough University, UK) is also an artist and freelance researcher. His practice-led research, which takes the form of mixed-media, body-themed, box-assemblages, examines concepts of representation, alterity and selfhood. Buttigieg's work may be viewed at www.aboutlawrence.eu.

Sophia Kanaouti (Ph.D., University of Wales, Cardiff) teaches for the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published on social and political inequality and on media and politics in relation to political theorists such as Arendt and Castoriadis. A recent publication of hers by Brill is Psychologising Evil in the Media, in the collection Perspectives on Evil (2019).

Lily Martinez Evangelista (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) teaches translation at the Universidade de Brasilia. She recently published a paper titled Hyper-Eroticism as a Source of Spiritual and Material Agency in Trilogia sucia de La Habana (2018).

Robert Scott Stewart (Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada) is a Professor of Philosophy at Cape Breton University (Canada). He has published widely and is a contributing editor of two books, Food For Thought (2012), and Talk About Sex (2013). He is also the co-author of Philosophizing About Sex (2015).