Peter Gillgren is a Swedish art historian and holder of the Anders Zorn professorship at Stockholm University's Department of Art History. He was awarded a PhD from Uppsala University in 1995 for his work on painted epitaphs in Early Modern Sweden. Fields of Scholarship: Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern Swedish Art, Art Theory, Performativity and Art, Relationship between Art and Music, Contemporary Art and Multimedia. Gillgren's recent research focuses on Michelangelo and multimedia contexts, including a semester as a visiting scholar at EHESS in Paris. His publications span journal articles and edited volumes, with notable works on Federico Barocci and Baroque Rome. He is a Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2013) and actively participates in international conferences and symposiums in Stockholm and Rome. Scientific Awards: Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2013)
Dr. Mylène Pardoen is a soundscapes archaeologist affiliated with the Lyon Institute of Human Sciences . Her work focuses on reconstructing soundscapes from pre-20th-century urban and military contexts, blending historical research with acoustic design. Notable Projects : Bretez Project (18th-century Paris), Musée de l'Armée soundscapes (Paris), Notre-Dame Archaeological Crypt sound installations. Research Themes : Historical acoustics, cultural heritage sonification, sensory urbanism, and museum auditory experiences. Her research trends emphasize multidisciplinary approaches combining digital humanities, urban history, and sonic artistry. She has been recognized in the Innovatives 2015 for her heritage-focused work. Scientific Awards : Innovatives 2015 (Heritage category) Mylène has presented extensively at international conferences, including Digital Humanities 2015 , CSHS Congress 2012 , and Music and Ecology of Sound 2013 , showcasing her expertise in auditory heritage.
Teresa Murjas is a Professor at the University of Reading , affiliated with the School of Arts and Communication Design . Her work spans performance art, translation studies, and digital humanities , with a focus on Polish literature, archival histories, and collaborative theatre practices. Her research explores: Theatre Translation : Specializing in Polish playwrights like Gabriela Zapolska, with notable performances at the University of Reading and POSK Theatre in London. Digital Practice : Investigating spatiality in heritage sectors through works like The Biscuit Town and Animating Archival Histories . Collaborative Methodologies : Exemplified in Peeling Onions with Granny and Between , which engage with intergenerational and advocacy-driven theatre. Her publications and performances often bridge memory studies, cultural heritage, and experimental media , as seen in works like I, Sheep (2019) and Surviving Objects (2012). No formal advising or awards are documented in the provided records.
Hirotaka Matsuoka is a Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University . Holding a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, he has been actively contributing to sports management research since 2003. His work appears in journals like International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship , Journal of Business Research , and Frontiers in Psychology . Education: Ph.D., Sport Management, The Ohio State University (2001) M.A., Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences B.A., Kyoto University of Education Research Focus: Sports consumer behavior Event management Corporate social responsibility in sports Wearable technology adoption Psychological impacts of sports spectatorship His recent publications examine language effects in sports advertising, CSR strategies in sponsorship, and fan behavior patterns. Grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science support his work on mega-event impacts and social effects of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He collaborates with institutions in Japan, Germany, and the USA, and has published in both Japanese and international journals. Scientific Awards: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research DAAD-Waseda Partnership Programme Professor Matsuoka's advising has influenced numerous studies on sport marketing and spectator behavior. His research projects address community engagement through sports events, fan migration patterns, and digital technology integration in sports contexts.
Dr Ned Barker is a Lecturer in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities, affiliated with the Digital Futures Institute. He holds a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship (2021-24) leading the 'Biohybrid Bodies' project exploring biohybrid systems’ societal impacts. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at UCL, contributing to the ERC-funded InTouch project on digital touch. His research bridges sociology, robotics, and sensory ethnography, focusing on human-technology embodiment. Education: BSc Sports Coaching Science, MRes Social Science Research Methods, PhD Sociology of Education (King’s College London). Teaching focuses on digital cultures, datafication, and ethics of emerging technologies. Research interests include biohybrid robotics, human-robot interaction, and interdisciplinary methodologies. Notable collaborations include co-created multi-sensory artworks with artist Joana Burd exhibited globally. Public engagement includes organizing events at the International Conference on Multimodality. Awards include the Leverhulme Fellowship and contributions to interdisciplinary research manifestos addressing scholarly uncertainties. His work intersects with UN SDGs on innovation and ethical technology deployment.
Michele White is a Professor of Communication at Tulane University, associated with the Program for Gender and Sexuality Studies within the School of Liberal Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on media and visual culture, particularly the intersection of feminist, queer, and anti-racist theories with digital media technologies. She examines how digital platforms shape gendered interfaces, beauty cultures, and online hate, while exploring embodied experiences of touch and emotion through screens. White has co-edited special issues like Feminist Media Histories on 'Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies' (2018) and is co-editing Anti-feminisms in Media Culture . Her books include Producing Masculinity (2019), Producing Women (2015), and The Body and the Screen (2006). Her current projects include Touch/Screen/Theory , which investigates digital devices and embodied feelings. Her teaching spans new media studies, communication theory, and feminist critiques of digital culture. Her work critically engages with platforms like eBay, LambdaMOO, and social media, analyzing how they reflect and reproduce gender, race, and class dynamics. She addresses contemporary issues such as anti-feminist discourses, digital mourning practices, and the politics of online identity.
Dr. Kenneth Wilder is a Professor of Aesthetics and UAL Professor in Reception Aesthetics at the University of the Arts London (UAL), affiliated with Camberwell, Chelsea, and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts. He holds a PhD from UAL (2009) and an MA from the Royal College of Art (1984). His research focuses on the phenomenological experience of art, emphasizing non-visual engagement for visually impaired communities and the role of spatial design in art reception. He has exhibited globally, including installations in the UK, China, Germany, Sweden, and Ukraine. Wilder has secured significant grants, including the AHRC-funded 'Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture' (2023–2026), which explores tactile and sensory art engagement for the blind. A prior UKRI grant (2021–2023) investigated non-sighted modes of beholding art, partnering with institutions like Tate and the Henry Moore Institute. His work integrates disability studies, analytic philosophy, and contemporary art practices to redefine curatorial and spatial accessibility. Education: PhD in Spatial Design (2009), MA (RCA) in Environmental Design (1984) Key Collaborations: Dr. Aaron McPeake (research co-lead), Coram (artist-in-residence), and organizations such as Shape Arts and VocalEyes His research network engages interdisciplinary perspectives, including cognitive science and disability studies, to address inclusive art spaces. Current projects aim to expand the application of non-visual art engagement beyond gallery contexts. Wilder has supervised multiple students on spatial design, architecture, and art studies topics, with notable advisees listed below.
Kelly Jordan is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University, affiliated with the School of Humanities and Performing Arts within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities. She has been a core member of the Drama team since 2006, contributing to teaching, research, and creative practice in contemporary performance. Education: PhD in Drama and Performance, De Montfort University MA in Performance Studies (with Distinction), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies, St Mary’s University College (awarded by University of Surrey) Certificate in Further Education Teaching, Brooksby Melton College Her research centers on Live Art, immersive and participatory performance, contemporary theatre, and the ethics of audience engagement . She explores how presence, interaction, and ethical responsibility shape experimental performance practices. Her work often engages with radical performance collectives like La Pocha Nostra and investigates the philosophical dimensions of participation. The recent publications reflect a strong thematic focus on audience ethics, immersive rituals, and political engagement in performance . Her work spans journal articles, conference papers, and creative collaborations, with recurring attention to Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s methodologies and the boundaries of spectatorship. Scientific Awards: No formal awards listed in the provided text. Kelly Jordan actively supervises postgraduate research, including AHRC-funded and university-bursary PhD projects. She leads modules in Directing and Live Art, and mentors students in practice-as-research. Her creative work includes co-directing immersive cinema projects with Dr Alissa Clarke and CATHI, staged at Picturehouse and Phoenix Cinemas. She has also organized impact events such as 'In Conversation' with Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency. While no formal lab is mentioned, her work is closely tied to the Drama Research Group and the Institute of Drama, Dance and Performance Studies at DMU.
Dr. Sara Oscar is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Technology Sydney's Faculty of Design and Society. She serves as Responsible Academic Officer for Plagiarism (since May 2018) and Ethics Committee Member (since June 2019) in the School of Design. Her work bridges academic scholarship with creative practice in visual arts, focusing on how images shape historical memory and contemporary discourse. Her educational background includes: Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts) from the University of Sydney (2008) Oscar's research centers on photography and moving image practices that explore the archive as a starting point for creative work. She employs strategies of appropriation and digital collage to examine how visual culture mediates our understanding of the past and present. Recent work increasingly addresses the implications of AI and deepfake technologies on visual representation, identity formation, and spectatorship. Her scholarship demonstrates sophisticated engagement with feminist film theory, particularly Laura Mulvey's concepts of the 'male gaze' and 'curious spectatorship,' applied to contemporary digital contexts. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent trajectory exploring visual representation through multiple lenses: historical, technological, and theoretical. Her work demonstrates growing engagement with digital technologies' impact on visual culture while maintaining connections to foundational questions about photography's ontology and politics. She has created significant exhibitions including 'From Here to Eternity' (2015) at the Centre for Contemporary Photography and 'Dress Code: The World's Longest Bar' (2013) at the Palimpsest Biennial. Her notable recognition includes: John and Margaret Baker Fellowship, National Photography Prize (2022) Dr. Oscar is available for Masters Research and PhD student supervision, teaching courses including Critical Approaches to Visual Culture, Research Through Design, Photography and Memory, and Narrative, Form and Time. She is an active member of the Faculty Visualisation Institute (VI) Research Network. Her media contributions address contemporary visual culture issues, including analyses of deepfakes, AI art, and social media censorship of women's bodies as seen in her widely discussed commentary on Instagram's removal of her childhood photos. Her creative practice extends into prominent public exhibitions including 'Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker' at the State Library NSW and Monash Gallery of Art, and 'An Elegy to Apertures' at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections.
Dr. Kelli Fuery is a Professor at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences , Chapman University . Her expertise spans Contemporary Visual Culture, Film Theory, and Psychosocial and Cultural Theory . Her research investigates the mediation of reality through visual culture, focusing on power dynamics, knowledge structures, ethics, and the aesthetics of emotional experience. She integrates psychoanalytic theory, critical philosophy, and feminist phenomenology into her work. Her recent publications, including the edited collection Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation (2024), emphasize cinematic temporality, embodiment, and transformation. These works engage with thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, Barad, and Bachelard, while exploring topics such as trauma, affect, and new materialism. Dr. Fuery serves on the Editorial Board of Film-Philosophy and is the Special Issues Editor for Film Matters . She has mentored student-run issues of Film Matters and contributed to journals like Psyche On Campus and The American Journal of Psychoanalysis .
Mariola Alvarez is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, specializing in Latin American art of the 20th and 21st centuries with a particular focus on the history of abstraction in Brazil. Education PhD, Art History, University of California, San Diego, 2012 MA, Art History, University of Florida, 2005 Alvarez's research centers on Brazilian modernism, particularly Neoconcretism—a movement of Brazilian artists and poets from the 1950s and 1960s. Her scholarship examines interdisciplinary collaborations within Brazilian modernism and the relationship between art and postwar modernity. Her current research project investigates the art of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil, for which she received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award. She has published extensively in journals like Third Text and Arts , and contributed to exhibition catalogs on Maria Martins and art of the Asian diaspora in Latin America. Her work significantly contributes to expanding the geographical understanding of abstract art beyond Eurocentric narratives. Alvarez co-edited New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America , which expands current research by leading scholars in the field, and was appointed co-editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture . Her publications demonstrate a consistent trajectory toward examining transnational connections in Latin American art, particularly focusing on diasporic communities and cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped artistic production in the region. Scientific Recognition Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for research in Brazil As Director of Graduate Studies, Alvarez oversees graduate programs in Art History while maintaining an active research agenda. She has served on committees related to diversity practices in academic settings, reflecting her commitment to inclusive scholarship. Her editorial work with Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture positions her at the forefront of contemporary discourse in the field, facilitating scholarly conversations about underrepresented perspectives in art history.
Vicky Angelaki is a Professor at Mid Sweden University’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences since January 2020. With 15 years of full-time academic experience in the UK (University of Reading, University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University), she specializes in interdisciplinary literary and theatre studies, focusing on societal/political intersections, environmental humanities, cultural sociology, and contemporary British drama. BA (Hons) English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003) MA Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway (2005) PhD Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway (2009) Her research explores theatre’s role in addressing climate crisis , digital environments, and sociopolitical issues. Recent projects include Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre (RJ-funded monograph, 2022) and co-editing the Palgrave Macmillan series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance . She leads the Political Literatures research network at Mid Sweden University. Recent publications and presentations analyze environmental dystopias , gendered geopolitics in classical adaptations, and pandemic-era theatre pedagogy. Her work synthesizes ecocritical frameworks with performance studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies and international collaboration . RJ Sabbatical Grant (2022) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018) She teaches courses on Literature and Crisis , Contemporary Anglophone Theatre , and Political Literatures , supervising PhD candidates in collaboration with the University of Reading. Professional affiliations include the European Theatre Research Network, International Federation for Theatre Research, and assessment roles for Uppsala University’s KoF24 research evaluation.
Beth Carroll is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, affiliated with the Centre for International Film Research. Her research examines audiovisual culture, particularly sound-space interactions and mediated environments. She explores video games, virtual reality, musicals, and phenomenology, focusing on immersion and engagement. Carroll actively supervises PhD students and teaches in film and media studies. Carroll earned her PhD from the University of Southampton, where she investigated spatial dynamics in musical theatre. This work established her interest in audiovisual experience, which continues to drive her current projects. Her primary research areas include Sound Studies, Music, Space, Phenomenology, and Genre. Recent projects analyze the sound environments of early Southampton cinemas, using technology to reconstruct lost architectural acoustics. She also studies meta-diegesis in musical films and transmedia storytelling patterns in games, emphasizing how sensory experiences shape audience engagement. Carroll's publications (2016-2025) show a trajectory from musical film analysis ("Contemporary musical film", 2017) to interactive media. Recent work (2020-2025) addresses transmedia storytelling, alternate reality games, and vocal performance in musicals. Her scholarship consistently links spatial theory with sensory experience, revealing how architecture and technology mediate cultural narratives. No major scientific awards or fellowships are currently listed in Dr. Carroll's public profile. Carroll supervises five PhD students in Film: Sihui Li, Nan Zhou, Weiyi He, Wenxin Cai, and Geyu Wu. Her mentorship focuses on audiovisual culture and spatial dynamics. While specific grants are not detailed, her ongoing cinema reconstruction project indicates active research support. As a member of the Centre for International Film Research, Carroll contributes to a collaborative environment that fosters innovative film scholarship through interdisciplinary methods and global perspectives.
Berenike Jung is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton, specializing in Global and Transnational Cinema of the Global South, politics of memory, and decolonising film education. Her research explores audiovisual screens as sites of ethical encounter with trauma and violence. PhD in Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick, 2016) Former Lecturer positions at King’s College London, University of Tübingen, and University of Groningen Her work interrogates: ethical/political implications of cinematic violence, decolonising film curricula, and postcinematic aesthetics in TikTok formats. She co-edits the Film Education Journal and organizes research seminars on decolonisation. Key publications include The Invisibilities of Political Torture (2020) and chapters analyzing Abu Ghraib, Get Out, and TikTok’s affective dimensions. She supervises PhD students in film studies and leads modules on Global Cinemas and Digital Screen Cultures. Centre for International Film Research member
Dr. Kwangmi Kim is a Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University's College of Fine Arts and Communication. Since joining TU in 2003, she coordinates the Advertising and Public Relations program while teaching courses including Media Planning, Advertising Campaigns, and International Advertising and Public Relations. Her research focuses on international advertising, media globalization, and the intersection of social media with sports communication. Recent work analyzes Twitter usage patterns during major sporting events and develops social media data collection tools. She contributes to academic discourse through publications in journals like International Journal of Advertising , Asian Journal of Communication , and Sex Roles . Dr. Kim serves as Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Communication since 2008 and previously held leadership roles in the Korean American Communication Association. Her expertise spans political economy of mass communication, gender/race representation in advertising, and digital media analysis.
