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Katharina Eisch-AngusView profile

Professor

University of GrazAustria

Katharina Eisch-Angus is a Professor at the University of Graz's Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology. Her research focuses on ethnography of everyday life, memory, and security discourses, with a focus on borders, liminality, and neoliberal transformation. She explores cultural semiotics, visual anthropology, and the intersections of art, craftsmanship, and work culture. Her methodologies blend multi-perspective ethnography with ethnopsychoanalytic and semiotic approaches. Her work examines topics such as migration, nationalism, post-socialist change, and the security society, often through case studies like Northern Ireland and pandemic responses. She has published widely on cultural theory, edited volumes on university transformations and Eastern European contexts, and co-directed ethnographic films. Her research bridges academic and public spheres, including collaborations with museums and exhibitions, such as the Rösselmühle project in Graz. Eisch-Angus holds a habilitation and has led interdisciplinary projects on cultural anthropology and folklore. Her recent publications emphasize the interplay between institutional structures and everyday experiences, particularly under neoliberal pressures. She teaches courses on cultural anthropology, ethnographic methods, and contemporary cultural crises.

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Maxine Lavon MontgomeryView profile

Professor

Florida State UniversityUnited States

Maxine Lavon Montgomery is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU), holding dual titles as Distinguished Research Professor. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on African American fiction, contemporary Black women’s novels, and archival studies, particularly examining postapocalyptic themes and cultural production. She has authored/co-edited seven books, including The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination (2021) and Conversations with Edwidge Danticat (2017). Montgomery has secured prestigious grants, including a 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant to digitize Gloria Naylor’s unpublished works. She is a屡获殊荣的教师, earning four university teaching awards, including the Transformation Through Teaching Award (2017) and the Dr. Martin Luther King Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award (2010). Her community engagement includes literacy initiatives, book discussions, and public lectures on Toni Morrison and other Black authors. Her recent work explores intersections of Black feminist thought, archives, and digital humanities. Key research projects include co-editing a two-volume collection on Gloria Naylor’s archives and analyzing postapocalyptic narratives by Black women across the African diaspora. Montgomery’s scholarship bridges academic and public spheres, emphasizing marginalized voices in literary and cultural studies.

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Laura J. GurakView profile

Professor

University of Minnesota Twin CitiesUnited States

Professor Laura J. Gurak holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a Professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, where she also served as the founding chair from 2007 to 2016. Her work focuses on the intersection of rhetoric, technology, and trust in digital environments. Key areas include technical communication, science communication, and the socio-psychological aspects of online interaction. Her educational background includes a B.A. in Public Communication (1989), M.A. in Technical Communication (1990), and Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric (1994), all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has authored influential books such as Cyberliteracy (2001) and Technical Communication (2024, co-authored with John M. Lannon). Gurak’s research explores ethos construction in digital spaces, trust in online communities, and the rhetorical dynamics of technological discourse. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks with applied studies, including analyses of internet activism, e-health communication, and the ethics of technical writing in the digital age. She has contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed articles and edited volumes. Her academic leadership includes roles in curriculum development for technical communication education, emphasizing digital literacy and visual communication. She has pioneered studies on privacy in internet-based research, particularly in health-related contexts like the Men’s INTernet Sex (MINTS) Study. Gurak’s research has been supported by grants focusing on technical communication pedagogy, digital rhetoric, and interdisciplinary program development. She is actively involved in professional organizations and serves as a reviewer for major journals in rhetoric and technical communication.

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Vindhya ButhpitiyaView profile

Lecturer

University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom

Dr Vindhya Buthpitiya is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Film Studies. Her work examines the intersection of conflict, visual culture, and post-war dynamics in Sri Lanka, particularly focusing on ethno-nationalist struggles and the political role of photography. She is a core member of the ERC-funded PhotoDemos Collective and curates the Museum of Religious Freedom, Sri Lanka. Her research investigates the global and local repercussions of Sri Lanka's civil war (1983–2009), analyzing how images—such as identity photographs, memorial portraits, and wartime evidence—shape narratives of identity, justice, and accountability. Current projects include studying the visual economies of war death and the 'Black July' pogrom's enduring visual legacy, supported by a Carnegie Trust grant. Buthpitiya’s publications span ethnographic studies, edited volumes on photography's political imagination, and critical articles in journals like Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . She emphasizes photography as both an ideological tool and an emancipatory practice, exploring its role in activism, commemoration, and state accountability. Her academic contributions include mentoring PhD students Ashley Bowes and Xi Chen, and her work bridges anthropology, visual studies, and postcolonial theory. She actively engages with transnational visual cultures and grassroots photographic practices in conflict zones.

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Jacqueline StaceyView profile

Professor

The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom

Prof Jacqueline Stacey is a Professor of Cultural Studies, English and American Studies at the University of Manchester’s Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing. She holds a BA in European Studies (University of Sussex, 1982), MA in Women’s Studies (University of Kent, 1985), and PhD from the University of Birmingham (1992). Her interdisciplinary research spans cultural studies, film analysis, gender, sexuality, and embodiment, focusing on topics like Hollywood cinema, queer film, medical visualization, and genetic constructions of identity. Her teaching includes undergraduate modules like 'Crossing Over with Tilda Swinton' and 'Gender, Sexuality and the Body,' as well as directing the Gender, Sexuality and Culture MA program. She has supervised over 20 PhD students and leads the annual Manchester Sexuality Summer School. Her research explores intersections between visibility, power structures, and cultural intelligibility, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to gender equality and cultural sustainability. Recent work includes examining impersonal subjects in family histories, queer cinematic representations, and global cultural formations. Her projects often bridge academic disciplines, reflecting her commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship. She has co-edited influential volumes on cultural criticism and feminist theory, further shaping discourse in her fields.

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Catherine CraigView profile

Assistant Professor

University of British ColumbiaCanada

Catherine Craig is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, affiliated with the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD and MA from Baylor University and a BA from St. Thomas University. Her research focuses on the history of political philosophy, particularly classical thought, with special attention to Plato and the intersections of politics with literature, art, and myths. She explores themes such as friendship ethics in modern media, disaster narratives, and political aesthetics through artistic works like those of JMW Turner. Her recent publications include a monograph on Plato’s Statesman (Lexington Press, 2023) and articles in journals like History of Political Thought and Political Science Reviewer . She co-edits volumes on artistic foundations of political communities and disease/disaster theory. Dr. Craig teaches courses on classical political thought and contemporary political philosophy. She actively collaborates with scholars like Ann Ward and Sara MacDonald on interdisciplinary projects blending philosophy with art and literature.

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Michael CoopersonView profile

Professor

University of California, Los AngelesUnited States

Michael Cooperson is a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), within the Humanities Division. He specializes in pre-modern Arabic literature, time-travel fiction, and cultural history of the early Abbasid period. His research includes a visual-narrative history of Arabic literature and global time-travel narratives. He has collaborated on studies of Akritic poetry and non-native Arabic learners. His courses cover pre-modern Arabic literature, Maltese linguistics, and translation practices. Cooperson holds a PhD from Harvard University (1994) and has authored/co-edited multiple books and articles on Arabic literature, Islamic culture, and Maltese studies. His work spans interdisciplinary approaches to Near Eastern literatures and cultural history. Education: PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University (1994) MA, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University (1991) Certificate, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University of Cairo (1988) BA, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard College (1987) Research Interests: Pre-modern Arabic literature Time travel as a literary device Maltese language and culture Abbasid cultural history Literary translation Teaching: Undergraduate courses: Reading pre-modern Arabic literature, survey of Arabic literature in translation, Maltese linguistics, Arabic translation practices. Graduate seminars: Pre-modern Arabic literature, including African and Indian subcontinent texts. Publications: Over 50 books and articles, including co-edited volumes on Arabic literary culture and festschriften for scholars like Wolfhart Heinrichs. Notable works: Classical Arabic Biography (2000), Impostures (2020), and studies on time-travel narratives.

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Emma BondView profile

Professor

University of OxfordUnited Kingdom

Emma Bond is a Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. She is a Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College and Lecturer at New College and Oriel College. Her research focuses on migration literatures, transnationalism, postcolonial studies, and the intersection of literature with visual and material culture. She has authored three monographs, including Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature (2024), and edited/co-edited multiple volumes. Her work has been supported by grants from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and others. In 2019, she received a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She currently leads a research project on Italian colonialism’s legacies, collaborating with institutions in Italy, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Her teaching emphasizes 20th/21st-century Italian literature from transnational and comparative perspectives, interrogating colonial legacies. Education: Studied at the University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford, followed by postdoctoral roles. Previously taught at the University of St Andrews (2013-2022). She holds editorial roles for Modern Languages Open and Liverpool University Press’s Transnational Italian Cultures series. Her research fellowships include the British School at Rome and Wolfsonian FIU. Key research themes include postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis in literature, cultural history, and world literature. Her upcoming projects explore museum practices and colonial archives. She actively engages with contemporary art and performance to reassess imperial histories.

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Joan S. RubinView profile

Professor

University of RochesterUnited States

Joan S. Rubin is the Dexter Perkins Professor of History and Professor of History at the University of Rochester's School of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on 19th–20th century American cultural and intellectual history, particularly the history of the book and poetry's role in society. She holds a PhD from Yale University (1974) and has authored seminal works like Songs of Ourselves (2007) and The Making of Middlebrow Culture (1992), recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Rubin has also served as Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the University of Rochester Humanities Center since 2016. Her scholarship bridges high and popular culture, examining cultural mediators like literary critics and musicians post-WWII. She has contributed to major projects such as the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History and co-edited volumes on book history. Courses taught include Culture Wars in Modern America and Cultural History of the United States . Rubin’s publications span poetry’s societal impact, publishing history, and interdisciplinary cultural studies. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship. She has advised on numerous collaborative research projects and remains active in humanities leadership roles.

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Jennifer L. GeddesView profile

Associate Professor

University of VirginiaUnited States

Jennifer L. Geddes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She holds all three of her degrees from the University of Virginia: BA, MA, and PhD. Her research focuses on intersections between religion, literature, and culture, with specialties in Holocaust studies, ethics, and critical theory. She teaches courses like 'Responses to the Holocaust,' 'Literature and Ethics,' and 'Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt.' Her work examines themes of evil, suffering, and ethical interpretation through literary analysis, particularly in works by Kafka, Primo Levi, and Levinas. Recent publications explore political theology, post-Holocaust ethics, and theodicy debates. Geddes has authored monographs and edited volumes, including Kafka’s Ethics of Interpretation (2016) and co-edited The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust (2009). Her research bridges philosophy, religious studies, and literary criticism to address contemporary ethical dilemmas arising from historical atrocities. While no specific awards are listed, her prolific publication record reflects sustained scholarly impact. She advises students through the University of Virginia’s Religious Studies programs, contributing to both undergraduate and graduate education in Charlottesville. Her academic contributions are anchored in interdisciplinary approaches, combining close textual analysis with broader philosophical questions about humanity and morality in the wake of modern tragedies.

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Renato PajarolaView profile

Professor

University of ZurichSwitzerland

Prof. Dr. Renato Pajarola is the Head of the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab at the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich. His research focuses on computer graphics, scientific visualization, and geometric processing, with applications in 3D scanning, point cloud analysis, and real-time rendering. He leads a team developing advanced visualization techniques for high-dimensional data, parallel rendering frameworks, and interactive systems for complex datasets. Key research areas include: 3D reconstruction of indoor environments Tensor approximation for volume visualization Interactive ray tracing and point cloud processing Parallel rendering frameworks (e.g., Equalizer) Scientific computing and sensitivity analysis His recent publications emphasize: High-dimensional data exploration using tensor methods Efficient rendering techniques for large-scale point clouds Integration of citizen-reported weather data for environmental analysis Prof. Pajarola’s lab collaborates on projects like VIAN (visual annotation tool for film analysis) and Terrender (web-based terrain visualization). His Erdős number is 3, reflecting interdisciplinary research connections in mathematics and computer science.

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Susan A CraneView profile

Associate Professor

University of ArizonaUnited States

Susan A. Crane is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona. Her scholarship examines historical consciousness through the lens of historical photographs and material culture. Publications include Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany and the edited volume Museums and Memory . Current book project ...And Then Nothing Happened: A Short History of Nothing explores conceptualizations of historical absence and non-events. Research interests span: Photography as historical evidence Museum representations of history Cultural memory formation 19th century historical practices

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Vaibhav SinghView profile

Research Fellow

University of ReadingUnited Kingdom

Dr. Vaibhav Singh is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, specializing in typographic history, printing, and publishing with a focus on Indian language scripts and their sociopolitical contexts. His current project, 'Merchants of alphabets: networks of typographic design and technology in Indian language publishing, 1900–1950,' examines how typographic design influenced linguistic diversity in Indian publishing pre-independence. He holds a PhD in typographic design from the University of Reading, alongside qualifications in book history, English literature, and visual communication. His research explores transnational networks in design and technology, emphasizing how creative and commercial collaborations across geographies shaped multilingual publishing. Key themes include technological modernity, nationalism, and the interplay between design practices and social structures. Singh has exhibited widely, including works on global newspaper design, non-Latin type transitions, and historical print artifacts. Publications span technical journals like Hiut: Typography Journal and edited volumes such as Non-Latin scripts: from metal to digital type . His work bridges material culture, technological history, and cultural studies, with a focus on understudied areas like colonial typography and pre-digital publishing workflows.

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Claire JonesView profile

Associate Professor

University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom

Claire Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham. She joined in 2015 and holds roles including Director of Postgraduate Studies and Convenor of MA Art History and Curating. Her research focuses on 19th-century French and British sculpture, emphasizing intersections between sculpture and decorative arts, art-industry relationships, and exhibition histories. She earned a PhD in Art History from the University of York (2010), an MA from the Royal College of Art, and a BA from the University of Essex. Her postdoctoral work included AHRC-funded projects on dance and memory, and Victorian sculpture displays. Her research explores how sculpture interacts with decorative arts, challenging traditional hierarchies in art history. Key publications include her monograph *Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895* (2014) and co-edited volumes on *Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe* (2020). She also investigates exhibition contexts, co-editing special issues on craft exhibitions in *The Journal of Modern Craft* (2022-2023). In teaching, she convenes MA modules on curatorial practices and exhibition theory. Her current project, *Experiments in Nineteenth-Century British Sculpture*, examines innovations in collaboration, church sculpture, and portraiture. She actively supervises PhD research in sculpture history, decorative arts, and museum studies.

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Julia DoroszewskaView profile

Academic

University of WarsawPoland

Julia Doroszewska is an Adjunct in the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, affiliated with the Department of Ancient History. She earned her Ph.D. and multiple degrees in classical philology, Polish philology, and glottodidactics from the University of Warsaw. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Silesia (2013–2017) and in an ERC Advanced Grant project on the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity (2017–2018). Since 2019, she has led the NCN-funded project "Epiphanies of Saints in Late Antique Greek Literature." Her research interests include classical philology, late antique literature, hagiography, liminality, paradoxography (especially Phlegon of Tralles), spatial theory, and cognitive metaphors in ancient texts. She explores how ancient authors conceptualized boundaries, thresholds, and the supernatural, particularly in the works of Plutarch and Apuleius. The most recent articles reflect a strong focus on liminality, saintly epiphanies, and the monstrous in antiquity. Her work analyzes miracle collections, ghost stories, and paradoxographical texts, revealing how ancient literature negotiated ambiguity, identity, and the sacred through spatial, bodily, and narrative liminality. She frequently examines humor, disguise, and the trickster archetype in saintly figures. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies , American Journal of Philology , and Preternature , as well as chapters in edited volumes from publishers like De Gruyter and Routledge. She has no listed scientific awards in the provided text. She collaborates with scholars such as Janek Kucharski and Robert Wiśniewski and has contributed to conference volumes and research projects on late antique sanctity and ancient narratives. She does not appear to supervise formal advisees, though she engages in collaborative research. Julia Doroszewska is actively involved in research projects including "Epiphanies of the Saints in Late Antique Greek Literature," "Thresholds, Passages, Boundaries: Liminality in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses," and "Thinking of Thinking: Conceptual Metaphors of Cognition in the Plutarchan Corpus." She is a key contributor to the academic discourse on late antique religious imagination and the cultural logic of marvels.

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