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 | Kelly McWilliam (M/C Reviews general editor) | |
| Having heard much about the famed "real world", Kelly remains enthusiastic about the opportunities associated with avoiding it. Indeed, alongside healthy obsessions with sugar, caffeine, public sneering and "creative microwave cooking", Kelly currently spends most of her time considering global hunger, existential guilt, ecological sustainability, world peace and the meaning of life. In her spare time, she is enrolled in a PhD at UQ, studying representations of female queerness in contemporary film. | | |
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| Emma is a postgraduate at the University of Queensland. She has recently submitted her MA on national identity and masculinity within the texts of Hanif Kureishi. Her other interests include Nineteenth century English literature and culture and letting herself eat cake. | | |
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| Christine Dauber is a Ph.D Candidate and is also a confirmed museum hopper and art history buff. Her research interests lie in the area of national
museums and the representation of indigenous cultures and peoples. This has ensured that she has had, and will continue to have interesting places to
go, such as the Museum of Civilisation, Hull Quebec, Te Papa, Wellington and the Museum of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. | | |
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| Kate Douglas ('screens' section editor) | |
| This gig allows Kate to realise a life-long wish to ‘talk film’, long and often. In a previous life, she gained degrees in social work and arts (english) at the University of Newcastle before moving to Brisbane to commence her PhD at UQ in late 1999. Her current research interests include contemporary self-representations (autobiographies, confessionals, diaries) and reality TV. She maintains an amateur fascination with the Premier League, The Eurovision Song Contest, and the song lyrics of her favourite female singer-songwriters. | | |
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| One of the major interests in Axel's life is music. Having realised he wasn't any good at playing an instrument, he became a collector -- his main focus is on the resurgent genre of Progressive Rock, and other styles similarly off the industry-polluted mainstream. He is also a passionate movie-goer, leaning particularly towards Canadian and French cinema. | | |
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| Catriona Mills is currently a postgraduate student at the University of QLD. | | |
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| Mark Andrejevic is an assistant professor of communication at Fairfield University in the USA. His dissertation was on reality TV, and his ongoing
research interests include on-line surveillance, personal Webcams and digital aesthetics. | | |
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| Professor Paul Attallah is the Associate Director of the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. He has written extensively on communication and cultural theory, including two books: Les Théories de la Communication: Sens, Sujet, Savoir (Éditions Boréal, 1991) and Les Théories de la Communication: Histoire, Context, Pouvoir (1989). He is a leading expert on North American television and has produced many articles and commentaries on contemporary culture, in both academic and popular sources. Although he may remember how to, he rarely drives. His memory, as far as we know, is still intact. | | |
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| Dr. Atton is the author of Alternative Literature (Gower, 1996) and numerousarticles on radical media. He is particularly interested in the use of suchmedia by new social movements and in the development of fanzines and zinesunder new technology. In 1998 he was awarded the American LibraryAssociation's prestigious Eubanks Award 'in recognition of his outstandingachievements in promoting alternative media'. His second book, asociocultural study of alternative and radical media, will be published bySage. | | |
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| Gareth Barkin is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at Washington
University. He is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork on popular
television and the creation of class-cultural distinctions in Jakarta,
Indonesia. Other research interests include cultural and lifestyle modeling in
emerging and interactive media. His website can be found at: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~gsbarkin | | |
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Michael Beltz is a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at George Mason
University. His work focuses on television representations of political
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| Donna Lee Brien teaches and is completing a Ph.D. (in biography) in theCreative Writing Section at Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane. She is currently writing a fictionalised biography of Mary Dean(b. 1876), wife of infamous poisoner George Dean. | | |
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| Laurence Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Queensland. He is editor of the E-Journal Access: History, and is currently working at Ipswich for the LearningResources Development Unit which is dedicated to the development of flexible delivery inAustralian tertiary studies. | | |
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| Candice Burgess is a librarian by day but by night she is an aspiring singer
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| Alex Burns writes and edits content for Disinformation,the award-winning subcultures search-engine, and is author of the forthcoming book DivineInterventions: Essays & Reflections on the Century ofIdentity Confusion (21.C Books). | | |
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| Yesim Burul is a PhD student at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural
Analysis) and a teaching assistant at the Department of Communication,
Istanbul Bilgi University (on leave). She is currently researching for
her PhD thesis, which focuses on identity formation and the uses and
abuses of and by media among 2nd and 3rd generation European Turks. As
a former radio producer and editor, she has an obsessional interest in
all forms of popular culture, and still dreams about going back to good
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| Lara Cain is a student and tutor at the Queensland University of Technology where she is currently researching aPh.D. thesis. Her work looks at the international transfer of Australian novels and the ways in which Australianismsare translated for outside readers. Her research also considers issues of funding, promotion and definitions ofcultural identity, and legitimates her voracious reading of grotty novels full of swearing and pop culture. | | |
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| If it's got spaceships in it, you can guarantee that Nick Caldwell will beinterested. Whether this is a result of some deep-seated Freudiananxieties, or merely a love of giant cylindrical objects that commandthe apocalyptic forces of nature, who can say? But anyone who trieswill be hearing from his solicitor. | | |
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| Dianna is a PhD student at the University of Queensland, writing a thesis which examines images of the witch in contemporary fiction and culture. | | |
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| Diane Caney is a writer, poet and freelance web-manager/author. She is currently assistant editor and web-manager of "Australian Humanities Review", an online journal. In 1999 she was awarded an Australia Council grant with Robin Petterd to complete "Archiving Imagination", an array of net.lit. Caney's works/collaborations, can be accessed from her web-site "over there". | | |
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| Sam Carroll is wading through her Research Masters at the University ofQueensland, carefully balancing her obsessive-compulsive tendency tolist-making with brief moments of grammatical sloth, so demonstrating thefact that self-indulgence is generally a very satisfying thing (particularlywhen it involves spelling, the vernacular and high-cal. sweeties). In afurther demonstration of the Inscrutability of Woman she likes botheasy-read and extra-complex texts (hence a thesis analysing Brisbane'sbroadloid Courier-Mail and a passion for hard-core science fiction and crimenovels). As a feminist, she slavers at the thought of political debate, andas a student she relishes the actuality of institutional gossip. | | |
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| Linda Carroli is a writer, curator and artist. She has produced several hypertexts both collaboratively and independently including an award winning collaboration with Josephine Wilson, *Water writes always in *Plural. Her most recent work is a hypertext essay, speak. | | |
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| Nick's currently wading through a PhD in pure mathematics, but is more
well-known as an occasional drag performer, tap-dancer and socialite. He
likes a film that is well thought through. He is running a queer
reading group based at UQ called Quook (email him for details). His ideal
first date is a game of scrabble, and he avoids men who wear white jeans. | | |
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| Nathan Cook is a 1998 graduate of Newberry College in South Carolina andwill begin graduate work at Hollins College in Virgina this September. Hehas recently ended a stint working for the Cartoon Network where he was, fora time, Space Ghost's male secretary (a job that is exactly as interestingas it sounds). | | |
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| David Cox is a film maker, writer and lecturer in digital screenproduction at Griffith University's School of Film Media and CulturalStudies. He's into japanese animation, videogames, The Situationists,media archeology and all that kind of culture jammer stuff. His Website ishttp://www.netspace.net.au/~dcox/dcox.html. | | |
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| Over the past few years Joseph has developed a passion for the popular. A devourer and devotee of magazine culture, gossip, and celebrities, hehas developed a strong interest in the development and movement oftrends. By absorbing music, movies, and literature, from classic totrash, he has attempted to incorporate, de-bunk, and analyse thesetrends from a "generation next" (insert groan of distaste here)perspective. | | |
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| Sunanda Creagh has co-produced the zines Spammy and Spill the Soup,and her own production Untitled. She is studying journalism at theUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS). | | |
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| Pierina Curties is a fan of just about anything, though she knows what about anything she likes. She has a degree in English Literature and Psychology from the Uni of Queensland and is currently studying Creative Writing at QUT. Pierina dabbles in the Visual Arts and is currently smitten with the creation of kitschy sculpture. | | |
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| Lincoln Dahlberg is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis insociology at the School of Sociology and Women's Studies, MasseyUniversity, New Zealand. His thesis research focusses on the possibilityof the Internet enhancing the public sphere. In the near future heplans to continue to pursue questions around the role of new informationand communications technology in local and global processes ofdemocratisation and social justice. | | |
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| Anne is a librarian with interests in both standard library work andcomputing/electronic issues. Working with the Electronic Unit at theNational Library of Australia since its inception in April 1996 has given herthe opportunity to combine both her working passions. On a personal level, sheis an animal lover (especially cats), enjoys reading, walking, movies, goodfood, wine and company and enjoys watching high quality rugby union matches(she's a Brumbies and Wallabies supporter). | | |
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| Eleonora is unrehabilitatively addicted to linguistics and is likely todie of frustration without it. Her current area of interest is firstlanguage attrition in a second language environment, as opposed to firstlanguage attrition due to slovenliness. | | |
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| Karen Gai Dean received her PhD for her Cultural Studies
dissertation on the image of Richard Nixon (English, La Trobe). She currently lectures in Humanities
(literature and film/media) at the University of Ballarat. | | |
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| Anything to do with the entertainment industry and you have Damien's undivided attention. He is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Queensland and strives for a career in the film industry. He derives immense pleasure from listening to a diverse menu of music. To him there is simply nothing more captivating than a senstadium cinematic experience or the sensation of a live concert. He also enjoys the outdoors and works as a lifeguard. Would you put your life in this guy's hands? | | |
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Peter Donnelly is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. He is interested in sport policy and politics, and identity issues in sport. Recent books include, Taking Sport Seriously (Thompson); and (with Jay Coakley) Inside Sports (Routledge).
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| Nicola Doering is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Socialpsychological aspects of computer-mediated communication are among her major research interests. For more details visit her homepage at http://www.nicoladoering.de/. | | |
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| Paul Elliott (aka Gonzo Macmillan) | |
| Gonzo Macmillan (aka Paul Elliott) is showing his age by proclaiming hiszine experience as the publisher of 7 issues of the zine Eyeball inSydney between 1972-73, and ensuring its credibility by being charged with5 counts of publishing an obscene publication. These days Gonzo amuseshimself operating PolyEster Books, Melbourne's centre for counter-culturaldissemination. He has aspirations to become a film-maker. Listen toGonzo on Mondo PolyEster live on the internetevery Tuesday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. | | |
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Christine Fogg is a writer who returned to Brisbane 18 months ago from a decade in Sydney, and after recovering from her shock at finding so much live performance happening in Brisbane, dived right into enjoying it, in between tutoring in journalism and media studies with the Faculty of Creative Industries at QUT.
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| Professor Field is a founding member of the Franklin Pierce Law Center faculty and has taught copyright and otherintellectual property law for nearly 30 years. As an author, teacher, editor of a refereed journal published inhard copy and, belatedly, online, Field has ample opportunity to see problems addressed here from each of several,often competing, perspectives. He says, "you bail; the hole is on your end of the boat" is a bad strategy. His home page is at http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/tgf.htm. | | |
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| Megan Foley recently received her undergraduate degree from Mary Baldwin College at the age of 18, and is now fervently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She plans on continuing the investigation of mediated (quasi-)personal
relationships in the context of reality television, and is currently conducting research on emotion management in partner selection and the influences of hegemony on hate and anti-hate speech. | | |
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| Adam Ford is the editor of the zine Duck Fat, the poetry journal &, and the creator of the comics The Amazing Atavistic Adventures of the Fish and Neuronn, the Creature from a Human Brain! He is currently working on two new comics, as well as the latest issues of & and Duck Fat (as always). In his other life he is an editor at Lonely Planet. In yet another life he is the author of a collection of poetry called Not Quite the Man for the Job. Contact him at ihaveseenthefish@jahoopa.comor PO Box 1297, North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068, Australia. | | |
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| Holly Forsythe is currently a doctoral student at the University of
Toronto who is writing a dissertation on "P.R." in George Eliot's early
fiction whenever she manages to ignore the television. Her research
interests include Victoriana; scandals, celebrity/public image and "the
author"; intersections between biography and literature; publishing
practices and fads; Rezeptionsästhetik, cultural studies, feminist and
queer theory approaches; history of the novel | | |
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| John Fraim is President of The GreatHouse Company. Located in northernCalifornia's wine district of Sonoma County, GreatHouse is a research,consulting and publishing firm in the area of symbolism and popular culture.Before starting GreatHouse, he worked in a number of businessmanagement positions. He was Staff Analyst with Chevron USA (San Francisco),President of Pacific Marketing Strategies, a marketing consulting firm withoffices in Berkeley and Los Angeles, and Marketing Manager for AcuSportCorporation in Ohio. He has a BA in History (Cum Laude) from UCLA and a JDfrom Loyola Law School (Los Angeles). His book Spirit Catcher won the 1997 Small Press Award. His forthcoming booksare Symbolism of Place: The Hidden Context ofCommunication and The Symbolism of Popular Culture: Dynamics of LeadingBrands, Products and Entertainment Genres. His articles have appeared ina wide range of publications such as The Marketing Journal (officialpublication of the American Marketing Association), Sonoma Business andPsychological Perspectives. He is a member of Publishers MarketingAssociation and the San Francisco Chapter of the American MarketingAssociation. | | |
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| Vida Zorah Gabe is a fresh graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University in
the Philippines. Currently unemployed, she spends her time reading, watching
movies, and trying to find ways to bring peace and goodwill to everyone on
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| Radhika Gajjala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Interpersonal Communication, Bowling Green State University. Member Spoon Collective and co-moderator for postcolonial email discussion list. Founder of Third-World-Women list, Sa-cyborgs list and Women-Writing-Culture list. One of several moderators for SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network) since 1994. Has published poetry and experimental prose here and there over the last 18years. Has published articles related to cyberfeminism/cyberculture in journals such as "Gender and Development" and "Works and Days." | | |
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| Michael D. Giardina is a doctoral student in Kinesiology and Cultural Studies Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. His current research focuses on the intersecting planes of trans/national identity, popular culture, and sport from a postmodern cultural studies perspective. | | |
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| Kathryn Goldie completed her MA thesis at the University of Queensland in 1998 on representations of gender andsexuality in the popular TV show Gladiators. Sustained by occasional doses of Polish, Hungarian and Austriantelevision, she spent three months backpacking through Eastern Europe, and has returned to Brisbane to embark on amagnificent career in university administration. | | |
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Gerard Goggin, PhD is Lecturer in Media Studies, School of Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.
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Chloe Goodyear studied Theatre at QUT and currently works for the producers of the Woodford Folk Festival. She is growing more and more interested in the strange divide between folk and pop culture. | | |
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Lisa Gunders is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland. She is interested in a range of things, including media, politics, and education, and especially how language functions in these areas as a way of creating 'realities' and maintaining power relations. | | |
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| John Gunders is enrolled in a Ph.D. at the University of Queensland,where he is studying the symbolism of food in cultural texts. His favourite theorists are Pierre Bourdieu, Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright. | | |
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| Roger Haden is a Ph.D. candidate at UTS working within the discipline of cultural studies, on a thesis that is a history and philosophy of the sense of taste. | | |
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| Jay Hamilton teaches courses on advertising and society, and cultural-criticaltheory at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on thehistory, theory and practice of alternative media, and on critical mediapedagogy as assisted by digital technology. He is currently writing acritical history of alternative media and producing a Website thatillustrates the pedagogical value of montage as a form and practice ofcritique. | | |
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| William Hatherell is a lecturer in written communication at QUT and is writing a PhD at UQ on Brisbane cultural history. He has masters degrees in literature and organisational communication, and has dabbled in linguistics. | | |
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| Byron Hawk is a Ph.D. candidate in English (Rhetoric and Critical Theory) at the University of Texas at Arlington, working on his dissertation entitled "On Vitalism: An Ethics, Politics and Pedagogy of Decomposition." He has published review articles in Enculturation and Post Script, hypertexts in Kairos and Pre/Text: Electra (Lite), and has an article forthcoming in an edited volume entitled The Terministic Screen: The Rhetoric of Film and Film Theory. | | |
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| Melanie Hawkins is a self-confessed film nut who relishes any opportunity
to grab the popcorn--particularly for an Aussie film! She is an
Education/Arts student majoing in English and History at UQ. Melanie rates
such screen gems as Rocky Horror, Silence of the Lambs, Moulin Rouge, Psycho and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as among her all-time faves. | | |
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| Michelle Henning teaches Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the
West of England and works as multimedia artist. Her publications include
essays on photography, the digital image and electricity and femininity.
She is currently researching taxidermy displays and online cemetries. | | |
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| Lawry Hill was at AFTVRS from 1977-79 and then worked for regional
television in Western Australia in everything from camera to sales before
going on to establish a video production company in 1990. Since 1995 he has
been a full time lecturer in film & television employed by the W.A. School
of Art, Design and Media at Central TAFE. He is mid way through a Master of
Communications at Edith Cowan University, researching interactive
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| Catherine Howell works from Brisbane as a coursewriter for Southern Cross University (Lismore NSW, Australia). Describing herself as a keen foyer-hopper, her special interests include contemporary / experimental music, ukiyo-e, and Scandinavian design. | | |
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| Kevin Howley (Ph. D. Indiana University, 1998) is Assistant Professor of
Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He teaches courses in
media production, analysis and criticism. He has written extensively on
community-based media and is author of the forthcoming book "Community
Media: People, Places and Communication Technologies" (Cambridge
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| Carolyn Hughes is a writer and reviewer currently doing postgraduate study at UQ in Australian fiction and whiteness theory. Other research interests include gothic fiction and romance, as well as New England fiction. Carolyn looks for writing that aims for the head and hits no lower than the heart. | | |
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| Greg Hughes is presently completing a research masters at The University of Queensland on
the representation of Australian gay men in Robert Dessaix's writing.
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| Lynette Hughes is currently a postgraduate student at the University of QLD. | | |
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| Joanne decided enough was enough after completing a Bachelor ofCommunications earlier this year. University was a challenging time forher considering the fact that her primary motivations in life are moneyand recognition. Therefore, instead of continuing with her studies,Joanne opted to step outside of the 'comfort zone' and undertake thedaunting task of finding suitable full-time work. However, all is notlost and she has considered embarking on the exhilarating adventure thatis postgraduate studies -- but only after she has recuperated from herstint as an undergraduate. | | |
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| Ian Irvine is an Australian poet, writer and academic. His poems, shortstories, reviews and essays have featured in journals as diverse as TheAntigonish Review, Southern Ocean Review, Salt, Bonfire, Eclectica, TheAustralian Writer's Journal, Gravity and Conspire. Ian is also co-editorof the literary e-journal The Animist, which is archived by the AustralianNational Library. As a founding member of ILEF (Internet Literary Editors'Fellowship) he believes in the need to properly promote the new forms ofliterature available on the World Wide Web. Awarded his Ph.D. in 1999 forhis work on the concept of 'chronic ennui', he currently teaches MedievalHistory at La Trobe University (Bendigo) and Work Place Skills through the Koorisupport unit of the Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE. In formerincarnations Ian was an alternative rock singer/songwriter in a bandcalled Goya's Child and a professional cricketer with Worcestershire. Hecan be contacted via e-mail at asphodel@iaccess.com.au. | | |
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| Ann Johnson completed her Ph.D. in communication at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently studies contemporary popular culture
and gender.
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| Anna has lived 25 earth years. She has performed her original poetry at various venues in Queensland. Her story is true -- from her perspective, but she sees words as playthings designed for fun and learning. | | |
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| Laura Kertz is an associateproducer at Web Lab, a not for profitInternet company based in New York City that encourages innovation on theWeb. Web Lab's own model for many-to-many small group dialogues was employed forReality Check, an online forumsparked by dissatisfaction with the media coverage of the events leading upto the impeachment of President Clinton. Laura is also pursuing a Masters ofLiberal Studies at the Graduate School of the City University of New York,where she focusses on technology and culture. | | |
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| Tseen Khoo was awarded her PhD by the University of Queensland in 1999. She is continuing her research and politicalinterests in Asian-Australian studies while working as a policy officer at the UQ Graduate School. | | |
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| Ben is an avid film, music and book fan, with a fondness for satire, blackcomedy and performance-driven texts which explore the dark side ofhumanity. Small doses of infomercials are a secret fetish. | | |
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Graham Knight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). His recent research has focussed on news production processes, and on the anti-Nike campaigns. He has conducted previous production ethnographies in newspaper and television newsrooms, and he has tracked government uses of media to
support specific policies.
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| Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb began studying the piano at the age of 6, but whenstage-fright prevented a career in music, he decided to concentrate on art.After a spell in Europe, where he was trained academically in painting, hefound his true calling as a writer and art critic. Yustas is now working ona book about Paul Jaisini, the inventor of Gleitzeit art. | | |
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Geoff Lealand teaches in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and is particularly interested in studying children and media, and grand issues of television, cultural identity and the meaning of life. His top TV pick for 2000 is Malcolm in the Middle (FoxTV).
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Amy Lee is interested in popular cultural issues concerning various kinds of identities. She has researched in representations of the gay figure in modern European fiction, as well as its representation in the context of Hong Kong’s local culture. She has also studied modern female writings of different Chinese communities. Amy Lee is now teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University.
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| Kirsty spent most of her undergraduate degree in darkened cinemas tryingnot to read the subtitles on French language films. More recently she hasslipped into the alleyways behind the cinema to explore the decayinginner cityscapes that permeate the recent spate of contemporaryAustralian 'grunge' fiction. It was while lurking in those alleys thatshe encountered the grrrls and buoys who self-publish zines. Kirsty canbe found buried beneath a pile of Australian-made zines. Her feet areresting on the tomes of French theory. | | |
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| Not so much a living treasure as a living movie database, Shane Lewishas at times applied her memory banks to producing newspaper andmagazine reviews. Now she studies movie costume, especially in movieswhere you're not supposed to notice the costume. | | |
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| David Liddle is an Arrernte Aboriginal man from Alice Springs and has been a journalist for 15 years. While no expert in nutrition, he realises now he is in his early 30s the steady diet of McDonalds and KFC with a large Coke has got to stop. More than 200 years ago Aboriginal people were once the healthiest people on the planet. David believes if we can get as close to that diet as possible, using a combination of Australian bushtucker and introduced fruits and vegetables and low fat meats, we should live healthier lives. Any self-respecting nutritionist will tell you that, but how many of us listen? David believes there will be an explosion of popularity in traditional Aboriginal bushtucker and medicines, much the same as inAboriginal art. | | |
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| Jessica Livingston has recently completed her M.A. in English at the
Univerity of Kentucky and will be pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of
Florida. | | |
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| Miriam's work (poetry and academic stuff) has been published in journals in Australia and overseas. This year, she has started to run writing workshops for community groups and has learned a lot from having to (lovingly) deal with old women who think their poetry is divinely inspired and teenagers who want her to help them write their school assignments. She is currently doing a PhD in creative writing and is writing a book on her grandmother's lives (in prose and poetry) as part of this project. | | |
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| Brian Martin and Wendy Varney are in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Wollongong, where they are researching communication for nonviolent struggle. | | |
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| After spending a number of years as a professional Art College drop out, Libby finally finished a degree, and wound up studying for her Masters in the English Department of the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the idea of Paradise in colonial discourse about the South Pacific. She has almost managed to give up all other interests and hobbies. | | |
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Margaret MacNeill is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. She has conducted a great deal of research on sport media, and is particularly interested in the production process, having conducted a previous production ethnography on ice hockey coverage at the Calgary Olympics.
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| P. David Marshall in his spare time collects remaindered (often bad)biographies and autobiographies of the rich and famous. When he has more spare time he might read them. He also enjoys channel surfing, reading the requisite novel a year on holidays, and going to a film. | | |
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| Hugh Martin is a Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at La TrobeUniversity, Australia. | | |
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| Hailing from Ireland, now an Australian, Paul Mc Cormack has recently finished an honours degree in English Literature. His interests include getting his life back, and going to more movies, plays, bars and beaches than he has in this past year-of-living-boringly. His ambitions amount to much the same thing. | | |
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| Dr Susan McKay teaches communication and cultural studies in the School of
English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. Her
interest in reality television remains virtual. | | |
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| Margaret McDonell is working towards an MPhil in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. She is a freelance editor and indexer, and her thesis is an exploration of the relationship between Indigenous author and non-Indigenous editor. | | |
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| Past 'events' section editor. Refusing to believe in the Brisbane Cultural Cringe, Felicity enjoysthe performing arts scene in this fair city and is especially partial tocontemporary dance, theatre and music, only reserving a special loathingfor the opera. She also loves Australian cinema and spends copious amountsof time attempting to convince her friends of its virtues. | | |
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| Simon Mee is completing a Masters of Fine Arts at the QueenslandUniversity of Technology (QUT). He has had four shows at the RedbackGallery (formerly Savode) in Brisbane, and recently self-published his ownartist's book, A Pilgrim's Regress. | | |
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| Tanya Meek is a television scriptwriter. She has just completed the firstdraft of a feature film as part of her course work for the Masters inCreative Writing at the University of Queensland. | | |
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| Graham Meikle worked in Japan, Spain, Ecuador and his native Scotlandbefore moving to Sydney in 1994. He has an MA in Media, Technology and Lawfrom Macquarie University, where he is currently doing a Ph.D. on politicalactivism and the Internet. | | |
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| Jennifer L. Metz is a doctoral student in Kinesiology and the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her current research focuses on concepts of motherhood in relation to public health policy, sport, and consumer culture. | | |
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| Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe studied English, Philosophy and German Literature atthe University of Düsseldorf, Germany and obtained his Ph.D. from theUniversity of London in 1994. Since then he has been a lecturer in theDepartment of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University ofWales, Aberystwyth. The relation of consciousness and performance representshis major research interest, documented by Consciousness and the Actor(Peter Lang, 1996), as well as several articles and conference presentations. | | |
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| John Miller teaches writing, communications, and literature at National University in Costa Mesa, California. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on The Anatomy of Melancholy, critical thinking in online instruction, The Lord of the Rings, and Chuck E. Cheese. | | |
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Janine Mikosza is a Phd student in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Queensland. Her thesis is on masculinity in 'new lad's' magazines. Like Roy and HG, her favourite Olympic sport is Greco-Roman wrestling...ooooh baby!
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| Andrea Mitchell is writing a PhD thesis on emotive narrative and the televising of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. | | |
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| Peta Mitchell has just begun her MA at UQ, which she hopes to convert to aPh.D. in an attempt both to wring the most out of her scholarship and todelay confrontation with the 'real' world. Her dissertation will explorecartographic strategies in 20th Century literature, encompassing Modernist,Postmodernist and electronic texts. Meanwhile, she fears that her interestin mapping may stem from a deep-seated anxiety over where all this is goingto get her in the end.... | | |
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Sean Monaghan is a recent addition to the Queensland population. He had published several short stories and numerous reviews. Sean is working on an MA at the University of Queensland. | | |
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| Mark Munsterhjelm is an independent Aboriginal rights researcher. He lives inTaipei, Taiwan with his wife and daughter. If you have questions concerningTaiwan Aboriginal peoples please check the Taiwan Aboriginal Rights Webpage. | | |
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Christopher Newell, PhD is Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, and a person with disability.
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Greg Oguss is a Ph.D. student in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-TV. His primary areas of research are 1970's American popular culture, film and television. He is
currently researching conspiracy narratives of the late 60's and 70's and their link to discourses surrounding white masculinity.
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| Paula Orlando currently attends New York's University at Albany where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis on Teaching, Writing, and Critical Theory. As an English Instructor at the University at Albany and at various community colleges, she has taught writing-intensive courses focussed on poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as survey courses on British/American poetry and Shakespeare. She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Mills College and her B.A. in Humanities with an emphasis on Poetics at New College of California where she also studied book arts. She has been a reporter for the East Boston Community News, an editorial cooperative member of Processed World magazine, and an acquisitions intern at Mercury House publishers in San Francisco. Her most recent projects are a serial poem titled Dispositional Formations and a dissertation on the phenomenology of gesture in performance poetry and drama. Some of her work has been included in Exquisite Corpse, Prairie Fire, Minotaur, Wisconsin Review, Processed World and Prosodia. She is a practicing Zen Buddhist and her interests include photography and printmaking. | | |
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| Sara O'Sullivan has recently completed a PhD on Irish Talk Radio. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. Her webpage is available at: http://hermes.ucd.ie/~sociolog/sos.html | | |
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| Cally Phillips is a professional screenwriter and founder of 3dnarrative, a project designed to consider narrative from new perspectives. Her work embraces new media, filmmaking and theatre She lives and works in Scotland and has served time as a script reader for Channel 4, the perpetrators of the Big Brother phenomenon. | | |
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| Anita holds a master degree in geography and political science fromthe Free University of Berlin. She presently coordinates the Bangkok-based Tourism Investigation & Monitoring Team (t.i.m.-team) andis the editor of New Frontiers, a bi-monthly news bulletin focussing ontourism, development and environment issues in the Southeast Asian Mekongsub-region. | | |
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'Craig Prichard' is home to a network of ways of speaking, embodied
practices and artefacts. Newspaper cuttings identify 'Craig
Prichard' as formerly a reporter with various New Zealand provincial
dailies. More recently 'Craig Prichard' is identified as lecturer
in communication with Massey University, Palmerston North. |
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| Theodore O. Prosise (Ph.D., Annenburg School for Communication, University
Of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor in the Speech Communication
Department, University of Washington. | | |
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Amanda A. Putnam is an assistant professor at Roosevelt University in
Chicago, IL. Dr. Putnam specializes in women's literature with specific
interests in transnational black women's literature. Other interests include
on-line and technology-enhanced teaching, African American popular fiction
and film, and the emerging topics within Girls' Studies. |
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| After graduating with an MA in Critical and Cultural Theory from Cardiff,Wales, Guy spent five happy semesters teaching English in Thailand before arriving at UQ, his fifth uni. (What is he running from? Can you trust this man?) Guy is fascinated by the proliferation of genres and media inrecent culture, and is particularly interested in hearing from people who want to review cultural phenomena that don't normally get reviewed as cultural phenomena. His doctoral research investigates the commodification of personal values in the arena of New Ageism. | | |
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Maarten Reesink is an assistant professor at the Department of Film and
Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests
are reality and emotion television, popular journalism and infotainment. |
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Sal Renshaw teaches in the Philosophy and Women's Studies programs at
Nipissing University in Canada. Her research interests derive primarily
from two questions: What kinds of subjectivities do our contemporary
worlds imagine? and: What do these worlds make possible? She teaches a
range of courses from Women, Media and Representation, and Women and
Cinema, to The Origins of Western Philosophy. |
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| Marc doesn't mind a bit of theatre or film. He's involved in a couple of theatre companies himself. It never gets in the way of his passions though: Japanese gameshows and PubTab. He just can't seem to get the same high from university work or theatrical ventures as he does from a tipsy Saturday-morning punt. | | |
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| Like James Cagney, Sean feels torn between his external persona as a Communications researcher and web-developer and his internal desire to be a song-and-dance man. | | |
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David Rowe is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies and Acting Head, Department of Leisure and Tourism Studies at The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. His books include Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure (London: Sage, 1995); Tourism, Leisure, Sport: Critical Perspectives (edited with Geoffrey Lawrence, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998); and Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity (Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1999).
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Kay Schaffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Inquiry, Adelaide University. Her books include the co-edited anthology Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader (with Jennifer Sabbioni and Sidonie Smith, Rutgers, 1998) and The Olympics at the Millennium (Rutgers, 2000). She is presently working with Sidonie Smith on a book on Autobiography, Human Rights and Social Change. She is the immediate past president of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia.
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Kristen Schilt is a graduate student in Sociology at UCLA who focuses on
youth subcultures, popular music, and adolescent girls. For her master's
thesis, she interviewed founders of the Riot Grrrl movement to determine how
they saw their experience in the group retrospectively. Currently she is
interviewing teenagers about their attraction to misogynistic and homophobic
music such as Eminem and ICP. |
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| Simon-Astley Scholfield completed his Honours at Griffith University with a dissertation onthe motifs of the vagina dentata and anus dentatus in (notonly) lesbian and gay visual art. He is currently writing his M.A.dissertation on representations of the anus in fin demillénaire cultural productions, and compiling an anthology ofqueer erotic art. | | |
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| Rachel Scholl is a Western Australian graduate student who, like most of us, is cursed with the palate of a king and the pocket of a pauper. | | |
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| Jimmy Dean Smith has recently published or presented papers on SiegfriedSassoon's war verse, DuBose Heyward's Porgy, and certain pastoral aspectsof the Susan Smith infanticide case. He is currently at work on Amy Lowell,Ralph Ellison, apocalyptic expectation, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.He teaches English at Newberry College in South Carolina. | | |
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| Sean is in the final year of his Ph.D., desperately trying to finish a ridiculously multi-diciplinary study of thesemiotics, sociology and political economy of the mobile telephone. Like all postgraduate students, he has no lifeoutside his thesis, except in his case, television, a burgeoning CD collection and playing soccer with the localshinbreakers. | | |
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| Matt Soar is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1993 he briefly volunteered at Adbusters. His research centres on the subjective aspects of advertising and design production from a critical cultural studies perspective. He is also Director of Publications and Design at the Media Education Foundation (www.mediaed.org) in Massachusetts, USA. MEF is entirely unrelated to the Media Foundation, which is based in Vancouver, Canada. | | |
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| Thomas Streeter studies culture and mediainstitutions, laws, and policies at the University of Vermont. Hispublications include Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy ofCommercial Broadcasting in the United States (Univ. of Chicago, 1996);"What is an Advocacy Group, Anyway?" in Suman (ed.), AdvocacyGroups and Prime Time Television (Praeger, 1999) and "'ThatDeep Romantic Chasm': Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the ComputerCulture", in Calabrese and Burgelman (eds.), Communication,Citizenship, and Social Policy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). He hastaught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of SouthernCalifornia, and is very grateful to the Key Centre for Media and CulturalPolicy for hosting his visit to Brisbane in June and July of 1999. | | |
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| While enjoying the finer things, Hamish appreciatesthe following fundamental elements of life --modern history, famous literature, skateboarding, andthe author Franz Kafka. Hamish vehementlydislikes only two things, mainstream music and lemurs. | | |
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Melanie Swalwell is currently working on a PhD on different figures of the senses in media tech contexts, which she hopes to finish real soon! She is based at present at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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| Shana Tacon is a writer of fiction and criticism who wishes she could be swallowed by the sea. | | |
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| Elspeth Tilley is a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, where she is researching "The Vanishing Myth" in non-indigenous Australian literature. Her supervisor suggests that her topic is apt because of her ability to vanish whenever a meeting is imminent; despite this propensity Elspeth hopes to complete her thesis in 2000. Usually when invisible to academia, she can be found working as a professional journalist for a variety of trade and sports publications, or riding her mountain bike in the forest. She is passionate about clarifying scholarly language in order to make academic work more widely accessible and valued. | | |
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| Christopher is a theatre director and designer from the US of A. In Australia as a Fulbright Fellow, Christopher is training in the Suzuki Actor Training Method and pursuing an M.A. in theatre at University of Queensland. Previous to embarking on his ozzy adventure, he spent six months working in Santiago de Chile training De la Vida Teatro in the Viewpoints Actor Training Method. Christopher is a graduate of Western Michigan University with Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance (Directing) and Theatre Design and Technical Production. With THE CO., the theatre ensemble he founded in the states, Christopher has created original work including Makbeth MCMXCVIII. His interests include ensemble training and performance, environmental theatre, intercultural theatre, and the creation of new work. | | |
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| Ian is a 23-year-old yank with a love of new and different sensory experiences. | | |
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Wendy Varney is a fellow in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Wollongong. She did her PhD on the social shaping of children’s toys but extends her research to various areas of leisure and leisure technology, most notably sports.
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After completing earlier degrees externally and working at TAFE in Charters Towers, Fran is currently completing a PhD at UQ. Her interests include feminist literary representations and how women function, or the options available to women, in society. The topic of her thesis is "isolation" and how this is depicted and developed as a theme in Australian literature. The topic is experienced by both genders but in very polarised forms which have greater impact on women. | |
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| After a career in education the reviewer commenced retirement by contacting the Coffs Harbour Pipe Band. To the concern of family and friends alike he
then announced his intention of becoming a pipe-playing member and promptly acquired a chanter and a How To manual. It soon became apparent enthusiasm
far exceeded ability and a chain reaction set in. The Pipe Band elected him President to keep him out of harm's way, his family began inquiries into the
legalities of reverse disinheritance, the family cat began meaningful dialogue with the R.S.P.C.A. about animal cruelty, and land values around
the reviewer's home where he daily practises suddenly became - well, not nice. The reviewer was allowed out in public to attend the Tattoo in the
hope that exposure to quality playing would prove beneficial. We can only hope and pray!
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| Sheena Walsh is a librarian person with a secret fetish for Broadway musicals and Gilbert and Sullivan. She studied Ancient History at uni andhopes to get back to it at some stage of her career though she is working in a law library now. | | |
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| Tim Watts reports on US business and politics for Business Review Weekly and The Age, and is completing a masters in political science at Northeastern University in Boston. | | |
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| Melissa West is a Ph.D. candidate in the Communication and Culture program at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Her major scholarly areas of interest are popular music, feminist/gender theory, and interactive multimedia. Most of her studies are focused on the reception of the media projected by popular music star Madonna. | | |
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| Melissa is currently completing her Masters degree at UQ in the field oftheatre studies after a year of Honours HELL which she survived, firstclass and with a Uni medal. She tutors drama, sings and acts at variousplaces and has an unfortunate propensity to overcommit. Her love ofentertaining means that she is constantly talking, eating and drinking.Her life goals are not to be boring, over-nourished or alcoholic... | | |
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| Midway through the way of life he was bound upon, Drew Whitehead quit hisrather poorly paid profession as an a la carte chef, in favour of the evenpoorer paid life of the professional student. That such a momentousdecision could be made based entirely upon a quote from Shakespeare pointsclearly to where his true love lies. Unashamedly a "Canon-boy", Drewcurrently divides his life between his MA on early modern English drama(which wants to be a PhD when it grows up), his three small children(still growing up) and his ever patient and understanding partner, Wendy.He is also the creator of "Twilight Pictures", aWebsite devoted to the dramatic and non-dramatic works of Beaumont andFletcher, contemporary playwrights of William Shakespeare. | | |
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| Kim Wilkins is author of the double Aurealis-award winning novel The Infernal. She is currently engaged in postgraduate English studies at the University of Queensland. Her third novel The Resurrectionists will be published in October. Her website is at http://welcome.to/KimWilkins. | | |
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| Rachel Williams is a postgraduate student exploring how women desire, love, and meet death. Fascinated by Florence Nightingale's mystic visions, Rachel is attempting to outline the unspeakable experiential dimensions of Nightingale's encounters with the divine. If this doesn't work, she intends to rely upon her repertoire of drinking songs to busk around Belfast. | | |
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| Alix is a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland. She is involved with the UQ Women's Collective, has aparticular fondness for her bike and is learning to skateboard. | | |
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| Heather Wolffram is a postgraduate student in the department of History atthe University of Queensland. She hails from the land of the long whitecloud (New Zealand), but lured by the high life and the friendlynatives has made Australia her home for the last 3 years. Her researchinterests include the history of psychiatry and religion and culturalcriticism. She is currently working on a doctorate on Victorianspiritualism. | | |
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| Deborah Wyrick teaches postcolonial studies, contemporary theory, and eighteenth-century literature at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, USA. She founded and edits Jouvert, the firston-line journal of postcolonial studies, and has written books on Frantz Fanon and Jonathan Swift. | | |
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Bilge Yesil is a doctoral student in Media Ecology program, NYU. She
received her M.A in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison where she held a Fulbright scholarship. Her research
interest is in video surveillance and the impact of technology on
privacy. She also teaches at the undergraduate Communication Studies
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