Professor of English, City University of New York I'm a romance fiction reader and scholar who teaches at LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York. My most recent monograph is Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (2023, Indiana University Press). My article on representations of Black and BIPOC academics in romance novels from the 1980s and more recent ones is available at the open-access peer reviewed journal Esferas Literarias via https://academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_pubs/190/
Post Doctoral Associate in the Institute of Environment, Florida International University Jazmin entered as a Ph.D. student in Agroecology program in 2017 with Dr. Krishnaswamy Jayachandran as her major adviser. Her current dissertation work investigates the application of Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTW) as a type of green infrastructure to manage nutrient runoff in South Florida through phytoremediation. By experimenting with cut-flower crops, she is identifying flowers that will grow well in these conditions, produce abundant blooms, and promote regular harvesting. This regular biomass harvesting increases the nutrient removal capacities of the FTW while also providing a product that can be sold in the market to help financially sustain the remediation efforts.
Associate Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa Jolene Zigarovich teaches and researches at the crossroads of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century body politics, death studies, and queer and trans studies, with particular emphasis on the history of the novel. She regularly teaches courses on the long eighteenth century, women writers, Romanticism, and Gothic literature. In Spring 2021 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and in 2021-22 was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. She is author of Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives, and editor of Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature as well as TransGothic in Literature and Culture. Her monograph Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) had the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, she is working on two new book projects that engage law and literature, Victorian Necropolitics: Legislating the Dead Body and the Novel, 1847-1874 and Legal Bodies: Women, Economies, and the Law in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.
Lecturer in Digital Animation, University of Bristol Dr. Jacqueline Ristola is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Her research areas include animation/anime studies, media industry studies, and queer representation. Her work is published in Kinephanos, Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has chapter in edited collection on television series Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman.
Senior lecturer in Philosophy and Media Studies, University of Nairobi Dr Jacinta Mwende Maweu is a senior lecturer in philosophy and media studies. Her research interests include social and political philosophy, media and democracy, media and conflicts, political economy of the media and climate change communication.
