Contributors

Jianxin Wang

Associate Professor of Finance, University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor of Finance, University of Technology Sydney worked at a major US bank in Chicago before joining UNSW in 1994

James Francis, Jr.

Instructional Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

Instructional Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Dr. Francis received his BA and MA in creative writing from Texas A&M University. He studied children’s literature and film at MTSU where he attained his PhD, now specializing in film (horror studies), children’s literature, and creative writing. He is the author of Remaking Horror: Hollywood’s New Reliance on Scares of Old, which chronicles the contemporary film industry phenomenon of horror-movie remakes. He has published book chapters in Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television and TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural as part of his background in television and media studies; The Scientist in Popular Culture: Playing God and Working Wonders and Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror regarding his specialty in Horror Studies; and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review connected to his interest in Queer Studies. He is the editor for Images in Motion: Exploring Visual Storytelling and served as contributing author and editor to Howdy or Hello?: Technical and Professional Communication; Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing; and Marvels and Wonders: Reading, Researching, and Writing about Science Fiction and Fantasy, all open-educational resource textbooks created by TAMU English Department committees in order to provide free-access educational resources to the instructor and student populations to enhance teaching and learning practices and increase academic equity. Dr. Francis is also an internationally-published portrait, fashion, and art photographer. As an Instructional Associate Professor at TAMU, he is currently researching and co-authoring two genre-studies monographs on horror musicals and A.I. in science-fiction film with former students of the TAMU English Department.

Joshua Lens

Associate Professor of Instruction of Sport & Recreation Management, University of Iowa

Associate Professor of Instruction of Sport & Recreation Management, University of Iowa A former attorney and college athletics administrator, Lens’s teaching and scholarship focus on the intersections of sports, business, and the law.

Jade Scott

Affiliate in History, University of Glasgow

Affiliate in History, University of Glasgow Dr Jade Scott is an affiliate in History at the University of Glasgow. She completed her PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2017, with funding from the AHRC. She is an expert on women’s epistolary culture in Scotland and is currently working on a research project with future digital edition, ‘Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625’. She is a historical linguist and gender historian with a focus on the early modern period. Her research is interdisciplinary bringing together social and gender history with digital textual editing methods. She was Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC Archives and Writing Lives project (2017-2019) and the British Academy recognised Book of the Dean of Lismore project (2020-2021). She has lectured at the University of Glasgow and the University of Stirling. Her edition of the Letters of Lady Anne Percy was published by Boydell & Brewer (2024) and her new popular history of Mary, Queen of Scots’ captive letters is published on 24 October 2024: Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots (Michael O Mara Books, 2024).

Jesica Lopez

PhD Candidate, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University

PhD Candidate, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University I am a PhD student in Sustainable Land Use at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC. I've been living in the Nordics since 2009. I have a BSc in Environmental Biology at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá (Colombia) and a MSc in Forest and Nature Management at the University of Copenhagen. After my studies, I’ve gained experience in the private and public sector in Denmark as an ecosystem services consultant at consultancy firm COWI A/S Denmark, and ecosystem service specialist at Climate-KIC Nordic. I was also Project coordinator/Research assistant at the Department of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen. The overarching aim of my PhD study is to improve our systems' approach understanding the mechanisms behind the land use transformation. More specifically, the cumulative effects of extensive cattle ranching into tropical forests in protected areas, in order to implement effective and integrative land use planning in the northwest of Amazon region of Colombia. I am combining the systems approach with the use of Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) together with remote sensing and GIS tools. The contribution of the study seeks to increase our knowledge to ensure pathways to reduce the alarming deforestation, create sustainable food systems and tackle the loss of biodiversity in this part of the Amazon. As part of the Agenda 2030 graduate school at Lund University my research interests within the SGDs are focused on the nexus between the competition of land for food production (i.e., livestock) and the pressure on biodiversity and ecosystem services in protected areas with tropical rainforests.

Joanne Banks

Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education, Trinity College Dublin

Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education, Trinity College Dublin Dr Joanne Banks is a lecturer and researcher in inclusive education at the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. Joanne's research interests are in the field of inclusive education and educational inequality. She has published widely on special and inclusive education policy and practice, school exclusion, and student diversity. She is the presenter and author of the Inclusion Dialogue podcast series' and books.