John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature and Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power and Waste in Western American Literature (2009), co-editor (with Ryan Bishop) of Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (forthcoming 2016), and has published on photography in Theory, Culture & Society, Cultural Politics, and Tate Papers.
Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths)
Nicolas Brinded (Goldsmiths)
Christopher Clark is a PhD candidate in the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University. His thesis explores state and citizenship modes in contemporary US culture through queer theory and memory studies. He has an article forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly on Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. As a poet, Christopher has published in Ink, Sweat and Tears and Cadaverine magazine.
Nicoló Giudice is a Lecturer in Photography at the University of Bedfordshire. His photographic practice is based on long-term projects that are concerned with the notions of tracing and imprinting from cognitive, social and environmental points of view. His work has been exhibited in England, Italy and France, including at The Rencontres d’Arles 2012. Publications include his contributions to Reflexions Materclass 2002-2012 (Actes Sud, 2012) and Reflexions Masterclass al Gran Teatro La Fenice (Marsilio Editori, 2013). He has an article forthcoming in Contact Sheet 183: Light Work Annual 2016 on Miki Soejima’s photobook Mrs Merryman’s Collection (MACK, 2012).
Sarah Garland is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia. She writes about image, text and inter-media arts in twentieth century American works with a particular focus on modernism and on American avant-gardes.
Mick Gidley is Emeritus Professor of American Literature & Culture at the University of Leeds. His publications include Photography and the USA, many works devoted to Edward S. Curtis and other photographers of Native Americans, essays on E.O. Hoppe, and, as co-editor, Views of American Landscapes, Modern American Landscapes, and Picturing Atrocity.
Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. Publications include the monograph Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (2015); articles and chapters on Hurricane Katrina and Southern Gothic; special issues of journals on American Exceptionalism and the Twenty-first-century Southern Novel.
Martin Padget (Aberystwyth University)
Stephanie Schwartz is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at University College London. Her writing on American photography and film has appeared in Oxford Art Journal, ARTMargins and Photoworks. Stephanie is currently developing a new research project on street photography in the US since the 1970s. Her initial reconsideration of the genre will appear in her forthcoming Tate Modern In Focus study of Allan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas [white globe to black].
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