Contributors
-
Linda J. Merelle
Linda Merelle is a lawyer and writer living and working in the Seattle area. She studies and writes about film and is currently working on her first novel.
-
Zain Jamshaid
Zain Jamshaid is a graduate (MA) student in Columbia University School of the Art’s Film Studies Program. He is currently working on his Master’s thesis which traces the points of intersection between New Indian Cinema filmmaker Mani Kaul’s theoretical/filmic discourse and Western film theory. His varied interests include comparative aesthetics, Indian avant-garde traditions and modernist practices, European modernisms, transnational feminisms, critical legal studies, contemporary Latin American Cinema, queer representations on film, the place of the animal in continental philosophy, and Pakistani political cultures. Recently, he has published a piece examining Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s ambivalent approach to feminist theory in Senses of Cinema, and has also presented a project (called “The Failure of ‘Hybridity’ in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled”) at Bucknell University examining Spike Lee’s racial politics in Bamboozled (2000). He intends to pursue a doctorate in Film/Visual cultures.
-
Kier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, Owner/Artistic Director of Spectacular Optical Publications and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014), The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited and published the anthology books KID POWER! (Spectacular Optical, 2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (Spectacular Optical, 2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017), and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She is currently writing A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: Children’s Programming and the Counterculture, 1965-1985, as well as monographs about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter and Patricia Birch’s Grease 2, and is in development on a narrative television series based on her book House of Psychotic Women with Rook Films (Free Fire, Duke of Burgundy, A Field in England).
-
Parisa Hakim Javadi
Parisa Hakim Javadi is a MA graduate of art studies (with a special focus on visual culture) from Tehran University of Art. Cinema is her passion, with a particular interest in the cinema of her home country Iran (her MA thesis is entitled: Chronotopical Narrative Construction in Fictional Feature Films of Abbas Kiarostami from 1987 to 2008). Her research also includes the Middle Eastern cinema and the cinema of East Asia.
-
Seung-hoon Jeong
Seung-hoon Jeong is a PhD candidate in Film Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
-
M. Sellers Johnson
M. Sellers Johnson (he/him) is a graduate student from Te Herenga Waka (Victoria University of Wellington) where he received his Master’s in Film in the spring of 2021. He previously completed his Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in December 2018. M. Sellers shares interests in film-philosophy, French cinema, American art cinema, historiography, and film aesthetics. He has written for New Review of Film and Televisions Studies, Film-Philosophy, Film Cred, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Film Matters. As an aspiring researcher, he also aims to continue his studies at a doctoral level.
-
Randolph Jordan
Randolph Jordan is a Montreal-based film scholar, educator, and multimedia practitioner. His research lives at the intersection of acoustic ecology, film studies, and critical geography. He teaches in the Humanities department at Champlain College, and has previously taught film, media literacy, and environmental philosophy at Concordia University, Ryerson University, Dawson College and LaSalle College. He is co-editor of the Sound, Media, Ecology collection (Palgrave 2019), and his monograph Acoustic Profiles: A Sound Ecology of the Cinema has just been published by Oxford University Press (2023). He has been covering Montreal film, music and new media festivals for Offscreen since 2001.
-
Stefan Jovanovic
-
Betty Kaklamanidou
Betty Kaklamanidou is Lecturer in Film Theory & History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. She is the author of Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com (2013), and two Greek books on film adaptation and the Hollywood romantic comedy. She has co-edited The Millennials on Film and Television: The Politics of Popular Culture (2014), HBO’s Girls. Questions of Gender, Politics, and Millennial Angst (2014), and The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film (2011). In 2011, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in New York. Her fields of study include film and politics, adaptation theory, genre and gender, and contemporary Greek cinema.
-
Brett Kashmere
Brett Kashmere is a Canadian-born, US-based filmmaker, writer and curator. His writing on experimental film and video has appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines such as Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), The Films of Jack Chambers, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Senses of Cinema, Esse, Take One, and more. Kashmere is currently co-editing a book on the films of Arthur Lipsett and is also the founding editor of INCITE of Experimental Media.
-
Aryeh Kaufman
Aryeh Kaufman was born in New York City in 1982. He studied philosophy and psychology at Columbia University before attending Harvard Law School. Aryeh is currently a practicing attorney in New York. His academic interests center on literature, poetry, and various intersections of psychology and artistic expression. Theories of creativity, specifically relating to the subconscious, are of particular importance to him currently.
-
Mark Kerins
For Mark Kerins’ bio please go to his Faculty page.
-
Najmeh Khalili Mahani
Najmeh Khalili Mahani, PhD, is a Canadian-Iranian researcher, currently working as a Neuroscientist in the Netherlands. She graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with a Master’s degree in Film studies in 2008. Her cinema writings focus on the historical or sociological contexts that inform the narrative of films, with particular attention to technological and formal elements that influence the film’s phenomenology.
-
Nojang Khatami
Nojang Khatami is a PhD student in political science at the University of British Columbia with interests in cosmopolitanism and social psychology. His past work has focused largely on Iranian political culture, including co-authored articles in Constellations, openDemocracy and The Progressive. In 2014, he was awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which supports his research. His recent work explores the possibilities for cosmopolitan understanding across cultures through empathy and perspective-taking. He is an avid reader and writer of fiction, and firmly believes that through sharing distinct experiences, people in those societies can go beyond merely coexisting and find ways to thrive together
-
Ouennessa Khiari
-
Khatereh Khodaei
-
Guan-Soon Khoo
Guan-Soon teaches communication studies and film at Roanoke College in Virginia, USA. He is an enthusiast of the close-up and the auteurist cinema of David Lynch, Lee Chang-dong, and Wong Kar-wai. His current research focuses on the social and psychological effects of film drama and self-reflection.
-
Jeffery Klassen
Jeff Klassen is a multi-faceted writer, artist, and student of media studies currently residing in Montreal, Canada.
-
Raphael Koenig
After completing an undergraduate and M.A. degree in French and Comparative Literature at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris, Raphael Koenig is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, studying Comparative Literature and Film and Visual Studies. He is a regular contributor to the Paris-based review Gravitations. He is currently working on his dissertation, on the topic of ‘art and madness’. His research interests include Surrealism, Dada, Weimar cinema, Chinese and Japanese cinema, translation theory, immigration theory, and outsider art.
-
Anton M. Kolev
Anton M. Kolev is a Bulgarian philosopher. He is the founding editor of adopto.net, a Bulgarian-language web portal specializing in literary & film theory and social critique and a member of Collective for Social Interventions, Sofia — an engaged research NGO and publishing house.
