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speakers [author names are linked to their abstracts, where applicable]
Lanfranco Aceti is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Leverhulme artist-in-residence in the Department of Computer Science at University College in London. email Jacob Agatucci is an instructor at Central Oregon Community College, where his teaching revolves around the ability of stories to motivate people to explore and expand their knowledge of history. email Lily Alexander is an assistant professor in the Department of Audio/Video/Film at Hofstra University. email Peter Aronsson is a professor teaching the uses of history and cultural heritage at Tema Q, Linkping University, Sweden, where he is involved in a study of translocal storytelling. email Ben Aslinger is a graduate student in the Department of Commnication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. email Barbara A. Audet is an assistant professor of communication and journalism at Auburn University. email Roberto Avant-Mier is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at Boston College. His dissertation focuses on the social construction of identity within Latino/a and Chicana/o rock music. email Burcu S. Bakioglu is pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Indiana University where her dissertation analyzes the role of interactivity in reading in different types of media. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Role of Game in Creating Narratives: Pale Fire as a Form of Cybertext. email Pavlos Baltas is a Ph.D. student in urban history at the National Technical University of Athens. With Nikos Barbopoulos, he recently published a book on the history of the western city and the role of transportation. Nikos Barbopoulos is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Technical University of Athens. With Pavlos Baltas, he recently published a book on the history of the western city and the role of transportation. email Gerry Beegan is a design historian and designer who teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He has designed publications for Penguin Books and the Victoria and Albert Museum. email Ian Beeson is a lecturer in information systems on the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of the West of England in Bristol. email Walter Bender is a senior research scientist and the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, where he holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Chair and is director of the Electronic Publishing Group. email Julie Benjamin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is researching the slides of New Zealand women who practised amateur photography between 1955 and 1969, to look at how these personal images reveal changes within the family as well as the nation. email Paul Benzon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program of Literatures in English at Rutgers University. He is working on a project entitled "Writing from Reproduction to Remix: The Mediation of Postwar American Fiction." email Vanessa Bertozzi is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Cristiani Bilhalva is a Ph.D. student in critical studies at the School of Cinema-Television, USC, where she concentrates on the interaction of narrative languages with social change, aesthetics, commercial cinema, and the avant-garde. email Marnie R. Binfield is a doctoral student in radio-television-film at the University of Texas at Austin, where her dissertation will focus on hip-hop fandom and its relationship to politics. email Jim Bizzocchi is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, where his research includes the aesthetics of high-definition video, issues in interactive narrative, and the design of educational games and simulations. email Mats Bjorkin is associate professor in film studies and head of the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media at Goteborg University, Sweden. His is currently finishing a book on industrial films and organizational learning during the 1950s. email Marie-Eve Blanc is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal in Quebec. An associate member of the Institute for Research on South-East Asia in Marseilles (France), she is a specialist in the overseas Vietnamese communities in France. email Goran Bolin is professor of media and communication studies at the School of Media, Arts and Philosophy, Sodertorn University College, Sweden. His research interests include television production and entertainment television, media structure and use in the Baltic Sea area, and uses of mobile media. email Veronica Bollow is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. Melissa Bostrom is completing her dissertation, "Economies of Form, Family, and Whiteness in Contemporary American Short Stories," in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. email Chris Boulton is a graduate student in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. email Martin Boyden is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Rochester, where his dissertation concentrates on the work of traditional literary genres in preserving experimental and radical radio practices. He produces a found sound and experimental noise radio program on the University of Rochester's WRUR FM. email Bonnie Bracey, currently working with the Thornburg Center, helps teachers integrate technology into their learning environments. She was the only teacher selected by President Clinton to serve on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (NIIAC), and was a Christa McAuliffe Educator for the National Foundation of Education. email Claudia Breger is assistant professor of Germanic studies and communication and culture at Indiana University. She has written numerous articles on contemporary German culture with an emphasis on issues of gender, race, and sexuality, as well as literary, cultural, and media theory. email Anna
Brigido-Corachan is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative
literature at New York University, where her dissertation focuses on
the rearticulation of historical imaginaries in contemporary native
novel and media of the Americas. email Jean Burgess is a Ph.D. candidate in the Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her current research explores the potential of amateur creativity and digital technologies for issues of cultural participation. email Margaret
Bush is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at Simmons College in Boston. For several years,
she served on the board of directors of the League for the
Advancement of New England Storytelling and has been a frequent
participant in their annual storytelling conference, "Sharing the
Fire." email M. Heather Carver is an assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her most recent book is Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography. email Angel J. Castanos lectures on newspaper design and newspaper production at the Cardenal Herrera-CEU Journalism University in Valencia, Spain. email Kirsten
Cater is part of the Mobile Bristol research team at
the University of Bristol, UK. Sadie Chandler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Theatre Department, University of Missouri. Anthony
Chase is professor of law at Nova Southeastern Law Center,
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and the author of Law & History: The
Evolution of the American Legal System (New Press, 1997); and
Movies on Trial: The Legal System on the Silver Screen (New
Press, 2002). Bertha Chin is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, where her dissertation is tentatively titled, "Exploring the Customs of Gifts and Governance in Online Fan Fiction Cultures." email Theodoros Chiotis is completing his doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is researching the ideology and practice of autobiography in Modern Greek fiction. email Steven Classen is an assistant professor of television, film and media studies in the Communication Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 (Duke UP, 2004), and the forthcoming Television and New Media. Roderick Coover is assistant professor of film and media arts at Temple University. His works include the interactive CD-ROM, Cultures In Webs: Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image (Eastgate 2004), which features multimedia approaches to the study of visual culture. email Beth Coleman is assistant professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She was a 2003-4 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and a 2004 Ford Foundation Fellow. Under the name M. Singe, she co-founded the SoundLab Cultural Alchemy project. email Laura Copier is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), where her research focuses on the Apocalypse and notions of martydom in contemporary Hollywood cinema. email Peter Csigo is an assistant lecturer in the Centre for New Media Research and Education, Budapest University of Polytechnics, where his research interests include the tabloidization of politics and of news media, the political implications of infotainment genres and social uses of new, digital, media technologies. email Chris Csikszentmihlyi is the Muriel Cooper Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab. Interested in cultural narratives, his work typically aims to create a new technology to embody a particular social agenda. "Afghan Explorer," for example, was a technology designed to defend the First Amendment by creating a tele-operated robot reporter that bypasses American military censorship. It recently won an International Association of Art Critics award for Best Web Art. email Joe Cutbirth is an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia and New York universities. He has an M.Phil. from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where his doctoral research examines the role of humor in political communication. He is a former political reporter and was communications director for the Texas Democratic Party. email Lan Dong is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Tracy Daniels is an entering CMS graduate student (Fall 2005). email Drew Davidson is the academic department director for game art & design and interactive media design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and an affiliated professor with the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. See http://waxebb.com/. email Maire Messenger Davies is professor of media studies and director of the Centre for Media Research in the School of Media and Performing Arts at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. Her most recent book is "Dear BBC": Children, Television Storytelling and the Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and she is working with Roberta Pearson on Small Screen, Big Universe: Star Trek as Television. email June Deery is an associate professor of literature and media studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). email Thomas DeFrantz is an associate professor in music and theater arts at MIT, where his research centers on African American performance. His current book projects include Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance and Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture. A working director and choreographer, DeFrantz has affiliations with the Drama League of New York and the International Association of Blacks in Dance. email Andy Dehnart teaches writing and journalism at Stetson University in Florida. A contributing writer for MSNBC, his writing on culture and media has also appeared in Salon and the Boston Globe. He is the creator of reality blurred, a Web site that chronicles reality TV and explores hyperreality. email Kate Delaney is a lecturer in American literature at MIT. She has been a Fulbright lecturer in American civilization at the Université de Caen, France and has given numerous guest lectures at other universities in Europe, Africa, and Asia. email Mark Deuze is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture and the School of Journalism at Indiana University. From 2002 to 2003, Deuze was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication. email Kimberly DeVries is a lecturer in writing in the Program for Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. She is a staff writer for Sequential Tart and has published articles on Hong Kong action movies, Asian stereotypes in comics and Otaku culture. email Joellen Easton is a graduate student in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, where her research interests include the interrelationship of technology and content in media production. email Suzette Ebanks earned masters' degrees in literature and communications from the University of Edinburgh and University of London. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on the role of cultural institutions in building stronger more inclusive communities. email Nathan Scott Epley is a Ph.D. candidate in media and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches media production and criticism as well as women's studies. email Staffan Ericson is a lecturer at the School for Media, Art and Philosophy, Sodertorns University College, Sweden. His current research interests include media events and media landscapes in the Baltic Sea region, and his Ph.D. dissertation investigates the relation between modernism, cultural theory, and television drama. email Elizabeth Fakazis teaches journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University where her dissertation explored the way stories about journalism are used to defend or challenge boundaries of acceptable narrative practice in the profession. email Andreas Fickers is assistant professor for radio and television history at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on the cultural history of communication technologies and currently works on a comparative history of European television. email Dora Fitzgerald is an assistant professor in communication arts at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. She was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant in 2004 to study media in China, and visited seven cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Xian and Hong Kong. email James Fitzgerald is an instructor of history at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas. His area of specialization is African American history. Constance
Fleuriot is part of the Mobile Bristol team at the
University of Bristol, UK. Martin Fredriksson is a doctoral student at Tema Q at the University of Linköping, Sweden, where he is working on a thesis on copyright, the construction of the author and the future of the public domain. email Elfriede Fursich is associate professor of communication at Boston College, specializing in issues of media globalization. Sean Galvin is an urban folklorist in New York City and adjunct at LaGuardia Community College. He is author of a monograph on Southern African-American quilters living in New York City, a videotape on ethnic breadmakers in Brooklyn, and co-author of Jews of Brooklyn. email Barbara Ganley teaches at Middlebury College where her interests include digital storytelling as a means of academic discourse and integrated web technologies as a vehicle for expression, community building, and student-centered learning. email Cristobal Garcia is a research fellow at in the MIT Political Science Department where he does research on the field of "political edutainment." Garcia graduated from MIT Comparative Media Studies in 2004. email Bernard
Michael Geoghegan is a doctoral student in screen
cultures at Northwestern University. email Carla
Gomez-Monroy wrote her master's thesis, "eRadio: Amulya Gopalakrishnan is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. Babette Grabner wrote her master's thesis on the influence of film in western culture and is currently examining depictions of death in film. email Michael Grabowski is an assistant professor of communication at the College of New Rochelle, and teaches filmmaking at New York University. He has won two Emmy Awards, and his films have played in numerous film festivals as well as at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, on PBS, and in Cuba. email Douglas Grant is a graduate student in Simon Fraser University’s Computing Arts & Design Sciences Program with a background in software engineering and research interests involving narrative in interactive media.email Jonathan Gray is a lecturer of mass communications at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is finishing a book for Routledge entitled Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, and is co-editing a collection on fan studies with Matt Hills and C. Lee Harrington. email Jonathan Greenberg is assistant professor of English literature at Montclair State University, where he teaches courses in 20th century British literature, Anglophone literature, and literary theory. He has published articles on Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and on Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. email Alison Griffiths is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Baruch College, the City University of New York and a member of the Ph.D. Program in Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture, and is finishing a book Shivers Down Your Spine: Panoramas, Museums, and the History of Immersive Technologies forthcoming from Columbia University Press. email Jessica Hammer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on interactive, collaborative and improvisational storytelling.She runs an experimental storytelling group in New York City. email Mary Beth Haralovich teaches television and film history at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A fireworks enthusiast, Haralovich is a member of Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI), attends the national conventions and has passed the PGI display operator certification course. Co-editor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays (Duke University Press, 1999), Haralovich is a founder of Console-ing Passions, the international conference on television, video, new media, audio and feminism. email Christopher Harper is joining the Department of Journalism at Temple University in the fall. He has written and edited four books, including two on the role of the digital media in mass communications. Before he joined the academy, he worked as a journalist for more than 20 years at the Associated Press, Newsweek, ABC News, and ABC's 20/20. email Justin Hayes is a Fulbright-Hays Fellow with the Council on African Studies at Yale University, and an associate professor of English at Quinnipiac University. email Alison
Hearn is assistant professor in the Faculty
of Joanna Hearne is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. email Sarah J. Heidt teaches English literature at Kenyon College. She is writing a book called Composite Beings: Auto/biography and Late-Victorian Self-Making. email Devorah Heitner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and Northwestern University. She is currently conducting oral histories and archival research for her dissertation, "Telling It Like It Is: A National Movement of Black Public Affairs Television 1968-1980." email David Herman, who teaches in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, is editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series for the University of Nebraska Press and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (forthcoming in 2005). He is the author of Universal Grammar and Narrative Form (1995), Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (2002), and many articles on narrative-related topics. email Jeremy Hight is a new media artist, writer and theorist. He collaborated with Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman on the project 34 north 118 west, which was awarded the grand jury prize at the Art in Motion festival. email Brigitte Hipfl is professor in media studies at Klagenfurt University, Austria. She has written widely on media reception, identity formation, gender and media, and media education. Her current work focuses on media as identity spaces and media as means of community building. email Mary Hopper is a faculty member in the Technology in Education division at Lesley University, where she serves as course mentor for the course Teaching and Learning with Digital Media, a required course in a Masters degree program that is offered to teachers in more than 20 states across the country. email Richard Howells is a senior lecturer in communication arts at the University of Leeds. In 2004, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a regular contributor to BBC national radio and television discussions on media, art and popular culture. His publications include Visual Culture (2003) and The Myth of the Titanic (1999). email Theo Hug is an associate professor of educational sciences at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and head of the ARC Research Studio eLearning Environments. He is currently working on media communities, instant knowledge and micro-learning. email
Shelley Ingram is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, University of Missouri. Hiroshi Ishii co-directs the Media Lab's Things That Think (TTT) consortium, and directs the Lab's Tangible Media group, which explores ways to give physical form to digital information. Ishii is an active researcher in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). email Brian Jacobson is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Jan Jagodzinski is a professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta where he teaches visual art and media education. He edits the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and is the author of Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media (2004). email Henry Jenkins is the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. He is the author and editor of several books including Hop On Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (co-edited with Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc) (Duke, 2003). email Vamsee Juluri is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco and the author of Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television (Peter Lang, 2003 & Orient Longman, 2004). email Inkyu Kang is a doctoral candidate in media and cultural studies in the Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. email Robert Kanigel is a professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT. He is the author of several books, including The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biography of the mathematician Ramanujan; The One Best Way, a biography of efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor; and Apprentice to Genius, about mentor relationships among elite scientists. email Julia Keefer is an asssociate professor at New York University where she teaches global literature and screenwriting. She has just completed a trilogy of novels with the overall title, How to Survive as an Adjunct Professor by Wrestling. email Gary Keller is director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles about Mexican-American and Latino literature, art, film, linguistics and language policy. email Frank Kessler is a professor of film and television history at Utrecht University. He has written widely on film history and is the current president of DOMITOR, an international association for research on early cinema. email Kelly Kessler teaches film and media studies at Queens College and Sacred Heart University. Her research examines the mainstreaming of lesbianism in television and film and the shifting form of the musical genre and its associated masculinities. email Bette U. Kiernan is a psychotherapist in private practice in Palo Alto, California who provides crisis intervention to several Silicon Valley Corporations. She has taught the psychological meanings of fairy tales at several California universities. email Madeleine Kleberg is a reader in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm University. She is working on a research project titled, "The Intimization of Journalism: Transformations of Medialized Public Spheres from the 1880s to Current Times." email Amanda Klein is a Ph.D. candidate in film studies in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where her dissertation focuses on theories of genrification and cycle formation, with a specific focus on gangster films and the juvenile delinquent teenpic. email Eric Klopfer is associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of the Teacher Education Program at MIT. email Poh Cheng Khoo is an independent scholar whose interests include warfare and identity and ethnic American literature. email Sebastian Koehler is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Journalism, Institute for Communications and Media Science at Leipzig University (Germany) and a television producer for Reuters, German Public Broadcasting "RBB" and the news channel "n-tv"). email Jaap Kooijman is assistant professor of media and culture at the University of Amsterdam. His research primarily focuses on the appropriation of American pop culture in Dutch cultural production (film, television, pop music). email Sara Koopman is a graduate student in women's studies at the University of British Columbia, where she focuses on how social movements tell personal stories for social change. She is a long-time activist in the movement to close the School of the Americas. email Marwan M. Kraidy is assistant professor of international relations at American University in Washington, DC. Having written widely on global media, intercultural relations and the Middle East, he is at work on a book tentatively titled Screens of Contention: Arab Television and the Challenges of Modernity. email Orit Kuritsky is a former producer for The Connection on WBUR and will be joining MIT Comparative Media Studies as a graduate student in the fall of 2005. email Joe Lambert is co-director of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California. Along with Nina Mullen and Dana Atchley, he developed the Digital Storytelling Workshop, a computer training and arts program. email Kurt Lancaster is the creator LettersfromOrion.com and digital films including The Kitchen and Huckleberry August. Lancaster is the author of several books and teaches filmmaking at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in performance studies from NYU. Henrik Lassen is associate professor in the English studies program at SDU-Kolding in Denmark (University of Southern Denmark, Kolding Campus). email Elaine J. Lawless is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of English and Folklore Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her most recent book is Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative (2001). email Julie LeBlanc is a doctoral candidate in folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship. email Bruno Lessard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal, where his thesis concerns performance and remediation in the CD-ROM adaptation of literary works. email Thomas Levenson is an associate professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, and teaches in the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT. His most recent book is Einstein in Berlin. His documentaries on science include the television programs Origins: Back to the Beginning (NOVA); Building Big: Domes (PBS); and Einstein Revealed, among others. email Marc Leverette is a Ph.D. candidate in media studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture and the forthcoming Understanding McLuhan. email Paula Levine is assistant professor of art at San Francisco University, where her teaching focuses on new and emerging technologies. Her current area of research and art practice is in Global Positioning Systems, remote and locative media. email Torey Liepa is a doctoral candidate in cinema studies at New York University, where his dissertation examines the presence of vernacular character language in American silent film. email Alan Lightman, a physicist-turned-writer, is adjunct professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. He has written four novels, including, Einstein's Dreams, and The Diagnosis, both rooted in stories of science and technology, and several works of nonfiction, including A Sense of the Mysterious, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists; Ancient Light; and Dance for Two. Anthony Lioi teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. He is working on a book called The Nature of Enchantment that examines American nature writing as a force for rebuilding world orders in postmodernity. email Leah Lowe is an assistant professor of theater at Connecticut College. She is particularly interested in comedy and has published articles on Gracie Allen’s mock presidential campaign of 1940 and the plays of novelist Anita Loos. email Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber teaches journalism and media at Suffolk University, Boston. A former journalist, she earned a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. email Erica Magris is pursuing a Ph.D. in theatre at Scuola Normale Superiore and University Paris III, specializing in the use of the new technologies in Italian Theatre. She regularly writes for Ateatro, a Web site about theatre. email Neepa Majumdar is assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is revising her book manuscript titled Wanted: Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s. email Atteqa Malik is a freelance digital artist and media studies scholar residing in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2004, she won third prize for digital storytelling in an international competition organized by Nabi Art Center in Korea. email Robert "Ouimette" Martinez is a doctoral student in the Media and Communications Program at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Previously, he earned degrees in political science and historical studies from New School University; and in art history and American studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. email Jean S. Mason is associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research into tuberculosis pathographies by patients in Adirondack sanatoria from 1884-1954 is supported by a major three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. email Michael L. Maynard is associate professor and chair of the Department of Advertising at Temple University, where his research includes cultural and textual analyses of television and print advertising in Japan. email Andrea McCarty is a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Her interests include amateur and grassroots media, media technology, and issues of media access and preservation. email Thomas McLaughlin is a professor in the English department at Appalachian State University. He is the author of Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular (U of Wisconsin Press, 1996) and is a lifetime basketball player and fan. email Ayana McNair is a graduate student in cinema-television critical studies at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include the representation of underrepresented groups in the media, and Black popular culture. email Ellen Menefee is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Delaware, where her specialization is architectural history. email Trudy Mercadal-Sabbagh is an instructor in the Department of Communication at Florida Atlantic University. email Ruth Miller is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her book, Legislating Authority: Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, is forthcoming from Routledge. email Clodagh Miskelly is a lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Current research includes community uses of located media and evaluation of a web-based participatory drama. email Jason Mittell is an assistant professor of American civilization and film and media culture at Middlebury College. His book, Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004) explores television genres as cultural categories, as exemplified by a number of historical case studies. email Sujata Moorti is associate professor at Middlebury College. Her previous scholarship examined narratives of globalization and the diaspora. She is the author of Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television’s Public Spheres and the co-editor of Planet Bollywood. email Joanne
Morreale is an associate professor at
Northeastern Rekha Murthy is a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Her research interests include ambient street media in urban spaces, urban annotation practices, and the supporting telecommunications and social networking technologies. email Amor Muñoz lectures on newspaper design and informatics for communication at the Cardenal Herrera-CEU Journalism University in Valencia, Spain. email Alan Nadel is professor of literature and film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is the author of several books and essays on American literature, media and culture including Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Duke UP, 1995) and Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America (Rutgers UP, 1997). He is former president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. email James Nadeau is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Sheila J. Nayar is assistant professor of English and communication studies at Greensboro College, North Carolina. Her latest article, "Dis-Orientalizing Bollywood: Incorporating Indian Popular Cinema into a Survey Film Course," is forthcoming in the New Review of Film and Television Studies. email Caren
S. Neile is founding director of the South
Florida Ken Newman has consulted with Australian State Government Education Departments in developing large-scale language teaching software, and was producer of the interactive online and broadcast TV production "Come Ride With Me." email Jonathan Nichols-Pethick is an instructor at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. He is currently finishing his dissertation, "Open Up: Crime, Community, and Citizenship in the American Police Drama from 1980-2000." email Sarah Nilsen is assistant professor of film and television studies at the University of Vermont. This paper is part of a larger project examining Walt Disney culture during the 1950s that includes chapters on Davy Crockett, the Circarama films at world’s fairs, and Zorro. email Michael Nitsche is an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on the design, presentation, and use of virtual spaces via a combination of theoretical analysis and practical experiments. email Siobhan O'Flynn teaches in the English Department of the University of Toronto, and is a faculty member at the Interactive Art and Entertainment Program at Habitat of the Canadian Film Centre. email Kimberly A. Owczarski is a doctoral candidate in radio-television-film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest include authorship in contemporary media, the contemporary film industry, and issues of gender and media. Ruth Page is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Central England in Birmingham, where her research interests focus onstylistics, narrative theory and feminist linguistics. Her book, Feminist Narratology, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. email Ana Pano is a Ph.D. student in comparative literature at the University of Bologna, where her dissertation is titled "The Fantastic on the Net: the Uncanny Effects of Digital Texts." She was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan during the previous academic term. email Yong Jin Park is a doctoral student in the Interdepartmental Mass Communication Program at the University of Michigan, where interests include social/policy implications of new technologies and the economics of media institutions and the telecommunication industry. email Alisa Perren is a visiting assistant professor in communication studies at Northeastern University. Her research interests include media industry studies, American film and television history and the development of niche markets in contemporary Hollywood. email Tom Pettitt is an associate professor at the Institute for Literature, Culture and Media Studies of the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on folk traditions of narrative (particularly the wondertale and the urban legend), song (particularly ballads) and drama (particularly mummers' plays). email Deborah Philips teaches in the Department of Arts at Brunel University. She is the author of Brave New Causes (with Linington and Penman), Writing Well (with Ian Haywood), and a co-editor of Tourism and Tourist Attractions. email Ester Pollack is head of the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm Univerity. She is the author of "A Study of Media and Crime (2001)," her doctoral dissertation. Aswin Punathambekar is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This paper is part of a larger dissertation project that examines the intersections of fandom, Indian cinema, and ‘new’ media in transnational contexts. email
Heli Rantavuo is a doctoral student in the Media Lab at University of Art and Design Helsinki. The working title of her doctoral study is "Digital Photographs in Personal Communication." email Jacqueline Reid-Walsh teaches children's literature at Bishop's University. She is co-author with Claudia Mitchell of Researching Children's Popular Culture: Cultural Spaces of Childhood. email Paul Richens founded the Martin Centre CADLAB in 1991, and has been director since 1992. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, a director of Informatix Software International, and Advisor to the National Film and Television School. email Vincent
F. Rocchio is assistant professor of communications and
media studies at Northeastern University and author of Cinema of
Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism (University of
Texas Press) and Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's
Construction of Afro-American Culture (Westview Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega is a Ph.d. student at New York University, where his dissertation is titled "Violent Cities, Mobile Bodies: Transnational Cinema in the Era of Uneven Globalization." email Marja Roholl teaches history at Rotterdam University in the Netherlands, where her main interests are American cultural diplomacy, the reception of American culture in the Netherlands, and the history of 19th and 20th Century display (photography, museums, world’s fairs). She was a visiting scholar at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program from 2001 to 2004. email Melinda Rosenberg is an adjunct instructor at the University of Tampa. She received herPh.D. in philosophy from the University of South Florida where her dissertation focused on the testy relationship between Nietzsche and liberal democracy. email Sharon Ross is an assistant professor of television studies at Columbia College, Chicago, where she teaches classes on TV history, criticism, and program development with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. email Jeff Rush is an associate professor in film and media arts at Temple University. His presentation comes from the first chapter of Linked Pleasures, a book in progress that draws on a number of narrative theories to develop a model for interactive media that integrates user control and narrative representation. email Adrienne Russell is assistant professor at the American University of Paris Department of International Communications. She is currently guest editing a theme issue of New Media and Society on new media and political resistance. email James Russell is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of East Anglia in the UK where his thesis is a study of historical epic films and film industry release strategies in the 1990s. Aside from epics, his research interests include film industry economics, filmmaking in the 1950s and 1960s, and the films of Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks SKG and Jerry Bruckheimer. Scott Ruston is a Ph.D. student in the critical studies division of USC's School of Cinema-Television with research interests in narrative structures in film, television and new media. email Jon Saklofske is a literature instructor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, where his research interests include Victorian England's reception of the Byronic hero, the history of the relationship between visual art and text on the printed page, and seduction and textuality. email Kevin S. Sandler is an assistant professor of media industries in the Department of Media Arts at the University of Arizona who specializes in U.S popular media, censorship, and animation. His forthcoming books include The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Does Not Make NC-17 Films (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and Scooby Doo (Duke University Press, 2006). He is the academic spokesperson for the Cartoon Network. email Karen Lori Schrier is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Rikke Schubart is director of studies at the Center for Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark. She has published several books on film and is chief editor of the Danish media journal MedieKultur. email Stephen Schultze helped start the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), an non-profit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio pieces. At PRX, he builds tools that enable stations to exchange content online for radio broadcast and to discover new voices through horizontal distribution channels. email Claudia Schwarz is a research assistant and lecturer in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the construction of "virtual bodies" in the postmodern era in cinema, television, literature, and the Internet. email D. Travers Scott is a graduate student in digital media at the University of Washington. He is the author of the novels One of These Things is Not Like the Other (Suspect Thoughts, 2005) and Execution, Texas: 1987 (St. Martins, 1987), and editor of the anthology Strategic Sex (Harrington Park Press, 1998). email Rakefet Sela-Sheffy is senior lecturer in the Unit of Culture Research at Tel Aviv University. She is currently working on strategies of self-representation and construction of self-images through discursive activities. email Simone Seym is a professor at American University and teaches "German Movies of the 90s" at the Goethe-Institut in Washington. She is the author of two books about the aesthetics of political power in the performing and cinematic arts of Ariane Mnouchkine (Metzler), and an intercultural German-Japanese textbook with audio-tools for beginners (Daisan Shobo). email Parmesh Shahani is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Nick Sharman is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is completing a Ph.D. at Latrobe University on the New York Times' coverage of the Chicago Eight trial. email Shawn Shimpach holds a Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University and currently teaches courses on film, television, and cultural studies in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. email Jan Simons is associate professor in new media at the University of Amsterdam. Simons is a former film critic and author of two books published in Holland: one on political advertisements on television and an introduction to new media theories. email Rolf Sindoe is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Denmark. email Stephen Sobol is program leader in new media at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. His current interests include visualizations of user paths through web sites as an aid to improved design and navigation, and the Direction Mapping and Sequence Chart project, which seeks to uncover stories behind web-consumption patterns. email Kristin Sorensen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is writing her dissertation on Chile and how human rights, social, and environmental issues get articulated through the media and the ways in which media consumers and audiences engage with these discourses. email John-Paul Spiro is a visiting assistant professor of humanities at Villanova University. His doctoral dissertation analyzes the religious and moral-ontological implications of Shakespearean comedy. email Julie Springer is coordinator of teacher programs at the National Gallery of Art, where she is responsible for developing programs and teaching materials that make the Gallery's collections accessible to K-12 educators nationwide. email Janet Staiger is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published nine books, with a 10th forthcoming: Media Reception Studies (June 2005, New York University Press). email Lukasz Stanek is a doctoral student at the Technical University of Delft in Holland. He earned degrees in architecture (Technical University, Krakow) and philosophy (Jagiellonian University) and has collaborated on projects with architectural firms throughout Europe. email Markus Stauff teaches in the Department of Media Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, where he is involved in a research project on the aesthetics and politics of the human face in media presentations of sports. email Jen Stein is the program coordinator for the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. email Louisa Stein is a doctoral candidate in the NYU Department of Cinema Studies and an adjunct in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College. She is writing her dissertation, "'A Transcending-Genre Kind of Thing': Teen/Fantasy TV and Online Fan Culture." email Janani Subramanian is a Ph.D. student in critical studies at the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. email Jenny Sunden is assistant professor in media technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She is the author of Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment (2003, Peter Lang), as well as a co-author of Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet (2002, Peter Lang). email Donald R. Sunnen is a professor of German at the Virginia Military Institute. He recently completed a manuscript called Communication as Common Space, which explores the relationship between oral and written traditions of communication and the impact of cyberspace and modern technology. email David I. Tafler is head of the Communication Department of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and has written extensively on interactive media and new technologies. He co-edited with Peter d'Agostino TRANSMISSION: Toward a Post-Television Culture. email Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. The author of books on the Brothers Grimm, on fairy tales (The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales and Off with Their Heads!), and on the cultural impact of mesmerist theories and practices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, she is currently at work on a book about the Bluebeard tale. Sue Thomas is a professor of new media in the School of Media and Cultural Production at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Her most recent book is Hello World: Travels in Virtuality (Raw Nerve Books, 2004). email Stella Thompson is assistant professor of English at Prairie View A&M University. email David Thorburn is a professor of literature at MIT and director of the MIT Communications Forum. He is the author of Conrad's Romanticism and many essays and reviews on literary, cultural and media topics. Tes Thraves is a Ph.D. student in communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She most recently worked on a collaborative multi-media documentary, Stewards of the Land, a profile of six sustainable farmers local in central NC. email Nancy Thumim is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. email Zoe Trodd is a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard, where she teaches a course on American protest literature. Her book, Meteor of War: The John Brown Story, co-authored with John Stauffer of Harvard, came out earlier this year. email Laura Tropp is an assistant professor at Marymount Manhattan College. She is currently writing a book exploring pregnancy within changing media environments. Tropp earned her Ph.D. in media ecology at New York University. email Marina Turco is a doctoral student at the Universitry of Utrecht, Holland. In 2004, she curated, with Isabella Galli, the media art festival Video Village in Milan. email William Uricchio is co-director of MIT Comparative Media Studies. He is the author and editor of several books including The Many Lives of Batman and Reframing Culture. Lalitha Vasudevan is a postdoctoral fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is involved in a study of stories and literacies in the lives of youth who are straddling the justice and education systems, and is particularly interested in how youth use media and technologies to create new spaces for storytelling and representation. email Ilya Vedrashko is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Nanna Verhoeff is assistant professor at Utrecht University, where she teaches comparative media studies at the Institute for Media and Re/Presentation. Her book on emerging cinema and the representation of the American West (After the Beginning: Westerns Before 1915) will appear in 2005. email Alicia Verlager, also known as Kestrell, is a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Her work explores how technology and media influence images of disability. email Pieter Verstraete is a Ph.D. candidate in the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and the Theatre Department, University of Amsterdam. His dissertation is entitled, "The Frequency of Imagination, a narrative-perceptual study of the interrelations between sound, text and performative space." email Hector Vila ia an assistant professor in writing at Middlebury College, where formerly he was associate director of the Center for Educational Technology. His last book, Life-Affirming Acts: Education as Transformation, chronicles the experiences of teaching marginalized students in New York City. email Jyotika Virdi is an associate professor at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. She recently published The Cinematic ImagiNation: Indian Popular Films As Social History (2004). Priya
Virmani is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Drama, Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Bristol,
UK. email Richard Walsh is a lecturer in English and related literatures at the University of York, where his research is part of a monograph project entitled "Rhetoric of Fictionality." email Frederick Wasser is an associate professor in the Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College CUNY, and author of Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR (University of Texas Press, 2003). email Kyle Weise is a graduate student in the Department of Art History, Cinema Studies, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on digital effects and the construction of urban space in contemporary Hollywood action films. email Ann
Werner is a Ph.D. student in the The Tema Institute Mark Williams is associate professor and chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. His book, Remote Possibilities, a history of early television in Los Angeles, will be published by Duke University Press. email Morris Williams is a member of the School of Information Systems at the University of the West of England. Samuel Willcocks is a Ph.D. candidate in German literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In his home city in England he performs with the Brighton Storytellers. email Amy Wlodarski is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, where she is writing a dissertation that explores the musical reactions of German composers to the Holocaust between 1945 and 1965. email Lucy Wood is a research scientist working in Ordnance Survey Research and Innovation in Southampton, UK. Shaunda Wood teaches educational psychology and mathematics at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada. During graduate studies, she studied how science/ engineering are best learned by non-traditional populations. email Sarah Worth is an associate professor of philosophy at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. She is currently working on a book that deals with narrative as a form of reasoning, emphasizing the role of storytelling, story-hearing, and story-creation as traditionally under-represented forms of knowledge. email Tim Wright has worked on narrative/drama-based interactive projects for the last 10 years. He recently completed a residency for the Writers for the Future programme, managed by the trAce Online Writing Centre based at Nottingham Trent University (UK).email Bilge Yesil is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, where she is finishing her dissertation, "Blind Spots: Video Surveillance and its Social, Cultural Dimensions." email Usha Zacharias teaches international communication, intercultural communication, film and gender, and media criticism at Westfield State College, Massachusetts, and writes on the cultural politics of media, gender, and citizenship in the context of fundamentalism and neoliberalism. email
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