Dean, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University Professor Matt McGuire is the Dean of School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He has over twenty years' of experience in the tertiary education sector of two countries - the UK and Australia. Professor McGuire has held a number of Senior Management roles within the Australian higher education sector. These include Director of Higher Degrees by Research, Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre, and President of the Australian Universities’ Heads of English. Currently, Professor McGuire is Treasurer and a Board Member of DAASH, the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Professor McGuire’s qualifications include a MA (Honours), MSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He also holds an Executive MBA from the Sydney Graduate School of Management and qualifications from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Lecturer, American literature and African American Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield My research and teaching focuses on Gothic literature and Horror Film, although I also teach American literature and African American Cultural Studies. I specifically investigate racial discourses and manifestations in Gothic Literature and Horror film, as well as the way Black Diasporic people have appropriated the genres to speak back against oppressive socioeconomic rhetoric. For my BA fellowship, I am investigating the ways the Gothic has and continues to impact and inform anti-Black language and discourses from the Gothic’s rise to our current era (as such, I will also consider the ways Horror Film takes up this task in the twentieth-century). I am especially interested in how the genres morph alongside any moments of racial progress, thus providing a means to consistently erase Black humanity despite seeming political and ideological advancement. To put it simply, I want to explore how Gothic Literature and Horror Film have contributed to populations still needing to shout “Black Lives Matter” in protest during the Twenty-First century—150 years of the US abolition of Slavery and over 200 years after its abolition in the UK—at a point of such intellectual and scientific progress that we should be well beyond this discussion. Although my work focuses upon anti-Black discourse, it is also inspired by and has ramifications for anti-immigrant discourses (such as rhetoric warning against hordes of non-white immigrants coming to rape and pillage the nation).
Investigadora, activismo de datos, Universidad de Deusto Investigadora Principal del programa ARES (Analysing Antifeminist Resistances). Doctora en Comunicación, especialista en activismo de datos. Licenciada en Lingüística, Máster en Comunicación. Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute (Londres)
Professeur-chercheur en management, EM Lyon Business School Ancrée dans une observation-participante de plusieurs années au sein du siège d'un grand groupe, ma thèse a porté sur la collaboration entre salariés et travailleurs extérieurs. Je travaille depuis sur la manière dont les entreprises et les personnes vivent les transformations du travail et de l'emploi. En particulier, je m'intéresse aux questions du management des collectifs de travail, du dialogue social et des pratiques de GRH, des parcours des travailleurs et de la soutenabilité de nos modes de travail. Je mène mes recherches dans le cadre du centre o.c.e d'emlyon business school.
PhD Student, UNSW Sydney I am a PhD student and research officer at the University of New South Wales and the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, Australia. My research examines treatments for bipolar disorder, applied machine learning, and digital interventions for mental health disorders.
