{"id":449,"date":"2018-01-18T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/?post_type=article&p=449"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T10:41:38","slug":"notes-on-contributors-3","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/archives\/article\/notes-on-contributors-3","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No. 3 \u2013 2018<\/p>\n

Editorial Board |\u00a0<\/strong>Adelaide Serras\u00a0|| Ana Daniela Coelho\u00a0|| Ana Rita Martins || Ang\u00e9lica Varandas || Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix || Jos\u00e9 Duarte<\/p>\n

Advisory Board |\u00a0<\/strong>Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) || David Roas (Univ. Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona, Spain) || Fl\u00e1vio Garc\u00eda (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) || Henrique Leit\u00e3o (Fac. de Ci\u00eancias, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) || Jonathan Gayles (Georgia State University, USA) || Katherine Fowkes (High Point University, USA) || Lubjica Matek (University of Osijek, CROATIA) || M\u00aa Cristina Batalha (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) || Susana Oliveira (Fac. de Arquitectura, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) || Teresa Lopez-Pellisa (Univ. Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona, Spain)<\/p>\n

Copy Editors |\u00a0<\/strong>Ana Rita Martins || David Klein Martins || Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix || Jos\u00e9 Duarte<\/p>\n

Translator |\u00a0<\/strong>Diogo Almeida<\/p>\n

Book Review\u00a0Editors\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Diana Marques\u00a0|| Igor Fur\u00e3o\u00a0||\u00a0M\u00f3nica Paiva<\/p>\n

Photography<\/strong> |<\/strong>\u00a0Thomas \u00d6rn Karlsson<\/p>\n

Site |\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact |\u00a0<\/strong>mfts.journal@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>ISSN |\u00a0<\/strong>2183-7465<\/p>\n

Editor<\/strong> | <\/b>Centro de Estudos Angl\u00edsticos da Universidade de Lisboa | University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. Alameda da Universidade \u2013 Faculdade de Letras. 1600-214 Lisboa \u2013 Portugal<\/p>\n

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GUEST EDITORS <\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Simonson | <\/strong>Martin Simonson received his PhD from the University of the Basque Country with a dissertation on the narrative dynamics of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. He is the author of the monographs The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition <\/em>(Walking Tree Publishers, 2008) and, with Ra\u00fal Montero, El h\u00e9roe del oeste en Las Cr\u00f3nicas de Narnia<\/em> (Peter Lang, 2014) and El Western fant\u00e1stico de Stephen King: hibridizaci\u00f3n y desencantamiento en \u201cEl Pistolero\u201d<\/em> (Peter Lang 2018). He is the translator of several works by J.R.R. Tolkien into Spanish, among others Beowulf<\/em> (2014), The Story of Kullervo<\/em> (2015) and Beren and L\u00fathien<\/em> (2018). He currently teaches English 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> century literature in the BA program of English Studies, and an introductory course on fantasy, horror and science fiction at the MA program of comparative literature at the University of the Basque Country.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | martin.simonson@ehu.eus<\/a><\/p>\n

Ra\u00fal Montero Gilete | <\/strong>Ra\u00fal Montero Gilete is a Spanish scholar and novelist, specialized in literature-teaching methodologies, and the role of children in fantasy literature. He teaches English language and literature at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. He was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 1978, holds a PhD in English literature from University of the Basque Country (2007). He has written several novels and a book-length essay on the role of the children as heroes in The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>, and published many articles and chapters in books on the works of C.S. Lewis and literature-teaching methodologies for students of English as a Foreign Language.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | raul.monterog@ehu.es<\/a><\/p>\n

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Amaya Fern\u00e1ndez-Menicucci <\/strong>| Amaya Fern\u00e1ndez-Menicucci lectures on American literature at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. She is a researcher in Gender and Cultural Studies and she has recently been writing on cultural bodies and the corporeal dimension of gendered identities in both science fiction and fantasy cinema and literature.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | amaya.fernandez@ehu.eus<\/a><\/p>\n

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John B. Kachuba<\/strong> | John B. Kachuba is the award-winning author of twelve books and numerous articles, short stories and poems. Among his awards are the Thurber Treat Prize for humor writing awarded by The Thurber House and First Place in the Dogwood Fiction Contest. John teaches Creative Writing at Ohio University, Antioch University Midwest and the Gotham Writers Workshop. He is a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Horror Writers Association, and the American Library Association\u2019s Authors for Libraries. He writes for his blog \u201cThe Metaphysical Traveler\u201d that can be found at: www.johnkachuba.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | www.johnkachuba.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joseph Giunta<\/strong> | Joseph Giunta hails from Queens, New York, and recently earned his MA from the Cinema Studies program at NYU\u2019s Graduate School of Arts & Science. Chiefly focusing on the children’s film genre, he also explores a variety of filmic modes (film noir, disaster, science fiction) and cinematic minds (Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Hayao Miyazaki). He plans on continuing his career in academia and ultimately teaching cinema and media studies at the university level.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | jvg263@nyu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Katherine Connell<\/strong> | Katie Connell is currently a PhD student at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on object oriented ontology, queer theory, weird media, and transgressive identity formation.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | katie.n.connell@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Katherine Fowkes <\/strong>| Katherine A. Fowkes is Professor of Media and Popular Culture Studies in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University in North Carolina where she teaches a wide range of media courses. She specializes in fantasy and science fiction films, comedy films, genre, textual analysis, and gender.\u00a0 \u00a0She is currently working on issues related to myth and fairy tales, Jungian archetypes, and synchronicity.\u00a0 Her most recent book is The Fantasy Film<\/em>, Wiley-Blackwell (2010).<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> |kfowkes@highpoint.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kwasu David Tembo | <\/strong>Dr. Kwasu David Tembo is a PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Language, Literatures, and Cultures department. His\u00a0research interests include \u2013 but are not limited to \u2013 comics studies,\u00a0literary theory and criticism, philosophy, particularly the so-called\u00a0\u201cprophets of extremity\u201d \u2013 Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida.\u00a0He also writes poetry and makes experimental electronic music.<\/p>\n

Email Address | <\/strong>tembo.kwasu@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Summer Sutton <\/strong>| Summer Sutton is a graduate student working on a Master\u2019s in English literature at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her academic interests range widely but center around science fiction and political theory. After finishing her Master\u2019s degree, she plans to move on to a PhD program.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | suttonsc@mymail.vcu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thomas \u00d6rn Karlsson<\/strong> | Thomas \u00d6rn Karlsson started out as a nature and landscape photographer but gradually evolved towards the realm of horror and fantasy. Recent exhibitions include #MEMORYLANE, in which levitation art is combined with music (by Anders Rane), and \u201cOut of this world\u201d, a collaboration with writers Martin Simonson and Ra\u00fal Montero, which was presented, together with a lecture, at Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm in August 2017. Thomas currently works as ambassador for Olympus.<\/p>\n

Email Address<\/strong> | ornthomas@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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