Abigail Whittall is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University for the Creative Arts in the School of Film, Media and Performing Arts.

Adèle Cassigneul is an independent researcher specialising in Virginia Woolf, text/image relationships and contemporary feminist literature.

Adriana Margareta Dancus is a Nordic literature and film professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Aga Skrodzka is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Clemson University.

Agnieszka Piotrowska is an award-winning BBC-trained filmmaker and theorist. She is a Reader in Film at SODA, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor in Film at the University of Gdansk, Poland.

Before entering academia, Akwugo Emejulu worked in a variety of grassroots roles—as a community organiser, a trade union organiser and a participatory action researcher—in both the United States and in Britain. She joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick in February 2017 as Professor of Sociology. She is an inaugural winner of the Flax Foundation’s Emma Goldman Prize. As a political sociologist, she has research interests in two areas: 1. racial, ethnic and gender inequalities in Europe and the United States and 2. women of colour’s grassroots organising and activism.

Alan McKee is an expert on entertainment and healthy sexual development.

Alex Bevan is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland.

Alex Wilson (Swampy Cree from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation) is a Professor and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.

Alexandra Dumitrescu writes poems, short stories, and essays. She has published in journals and collective volumes in New Zealand, America, Australia and Europe.

Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker.  

Alice Butler is an interdisciplinary writer and scholar based in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art who specialises in the intersections of recent and contemporary feminist and queer art, writing, and theoretical practices.

Alice Haylett Bryan is a Lecturer in Film History at Queen Mary University of London

Alice Pember is a PhD student and TA at Queen Mary, University of London.

Alicia Izharuddin is a Senior Visiting Fellow in Gender and Sexuality in the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore, where she teaches courses on Indonesian and Malay cinema, along with gender and Islam in Southeast Asia.

Alison Mayne is a researcher in handcraft, wellbeing, digital crafting communities and everyday textiles.

Alison Peirse is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Allain Daigle is a writer and visual storyteller. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Altea Solari is a newly qualified MD who plans to specialise in child psychiatry and eating disorders.

Alva Gotby is a doctoral student at the University of West London.

Alyssa Harad is the author of a memoir, Coming to My Senses, which was published by Viking/Penguin.

Amanda Hopkinson is an academic, writer and literary translator.

Amanda McBride gained her PhD in Social Sciences at Northumbria University in March 2020.

Ami Nisa recently completed a doctorate at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Her PhD thesis examined the camera in the found-footage horror film through the intersections of new materialism, visual culture, film theory, and the philosophy of technology.

 Amy Acre is a poet, performer and freelance writer from London. 

Amy Boyle is a sessional academic, a PhD Candidate (University of Wollongong) and a research assistant for the Program in Gender-Based Violence (University of Newcastle).

Amy Corron is a leadership educator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Amy E. Elkins is Associate Professor of English at Macalester College.

Amy McCauley is a poet. She won a Northern Writers’ Award (2016). She serves as MAI’s editor of creative response. Amy’s book of poetry Oedipa is published by Guillemot Press (2018). You can view her work at http://mccauliana.weebly.com/.

Ana Maria Sapountzi is a PhD student at the Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews.

Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (born in Lima, 1989) is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Andrea Braithwaite is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University.

Angelica Fenner is Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.

Ann Gagné is an Educational Developer at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. She completed her PhD at the University of Western Ontario and has worked at colleges and universities in Ontario, Canada for more than a decade. Her areas of research include the ethics of tactility in Ruskin and Hardy, the use of touch in experiential learning in the nineteenth-century, and the pedagogical application of touch in constructivist learning using instructional technology. Her current project explores the intersection of inclusive pedagogical strategies, the sensory, and accessibility considerations in the Canadian higher education context.

Link: https://blackfoodtoronto.com/

MAI co-founder and co-editor-in-chief, Anna Backman Rogers is a Professor in Aesthetics and Culture specialising in feminist theory  at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis Image (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (Berghahn, 2018), and Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s Wanda (Punctum, 2021).

Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2017-2021.

Anna Rocca is a professor of French and Italian at Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, USA.

Anne M. Harris, PhD is an Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021) studying intercultural creativity.

Anne Sweet is a lecturer in American Civilisation, TV and Cinema Studies in Paris, France.

Annika Svensson (b. 1970) is a Swedish ceramicist/tiled stove maker/artist,who lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Aparna Sharma is a documentary filmmaker and film scholar. She works in India’s northeastern region, documenting various communities’ cultural practices.

Ariel Avissar is a lecturer and PhD student at the Steve Tisch School of Film & Television at Tel Aviv University.

Ashna Ali is a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature program at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Astrid Korporaal is a curator, writer and researcher.

Aura Lehtonen is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Northampton. 

Aylwyn Walsh is an Associate Professor of Performance and Social Change at the University of Leeds School of Performance and Cultural Industries, where she leads the MA in Applied Theatre and Intervention.

Ayo Osobamiro is a Nigerian American raised in the great state of Michigan and is the producer of The Black Motherhood Project.

Barbara Bolt is Professor in Contemporary Arts and Culture and a practising artist and art theorist with a special interest in the dialogue between theory and practice and digital and analogue painting seen through the lens of New Materialist studies.

Barbara Filser is an art historian and media theorist currently based at the Institute for History of
Art and Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, where she is working on a
research project on CD-ROM art funded by the German Research Foundation.

Barbara Selznick is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona. 

Beatrice Alvestad Lopez is a Norwegian artist working across multiple fields, including land-based performance, photography, film and installation. Her practice often focuses on remote environments, ecology and poetic narratives.

Her work can be viewed here:

https://www.beatricealvestadlopez.com/

Beatriz Saldanha is a doctoral student, film critic, curator, and director.

Benson Rajan is an Assistant Professor at Christ University Bangalore, Department of Media Studies.

Birdy Wei-Ting Hung is an M.F.A. Candidate at the School of Cinema, San Francisco State University.

Boel Ulfsdotter is a Reader in Film and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Gothenburg University in Sweden.

Brian Michael Müller is a South African-born queer scholar based in Vancouver, Canada.

Briana L. Martino is Assistant Professor of Communications and faculty affiliate of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University in Boston, MA.

Bruna Foletto Lucas is a fourth-year PhD student at Kingston University London, where she is expanding her previous research on women-directed horror films.

Bryony Bates is a writer and performer based in Manchester.

Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist and researcher focused on feminism, photography and activism.

Camille Melissa Waring is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, School of Arts, University of Westminster, London.

Camille Waring is a feminist writer and researcher. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), Westminster School of Arts, London.

Carli Cutchin is a writer and PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Carly Guest is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Middlesex University.

Carolyn Shapiro is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at Falmouth University, where she has been teaching since 2002.  She is Coordinator for the Critical Studies program for BA Illustration, and the primary theory tutor for MA Authorial Practice and MA Creative Advertising at Falmouth University.

Catherine Dormor is an academic artist and writer, working with textiles.

Catherine Grant is an independent scholar, film critic and filmmaker.

Professor Catherine Harper is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of University for the Creative Arts, UK.

Catherine Martin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Studies in Denison University’s Department of Communication.

Catherine Putman has MA and BA degrees in Film Studies from the University of Sussex.

Charlotte Hodes is Professor of Fine Art at London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London.

Charlotte Johanne Fabricius is a postdoc with the project FEMINIZED: A New Literary History of Women’s Work, situated at the University of Southern Denmark, for which she studies diary comics on Instagram as a form of precarious, feminised work.

Charlotte Morris is a teaching fellow at the University of Sussex, UK.

Christine Vicera (she/hers) is a Filipino writer, researcher, and filmmaker from Hong Kong.

Claire Mortimer is an independent researcher and teacher, who completed her PhD on ageing women in British film comedy at the University of East Anglia in 2017.

Clara Bradbury-Rance is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at King’s College London, where she also sits on the steering committee of Queer@King’s.

Clare Cheverall completed her PhD thesis, on dialogue in the novels of Jane Austen and their adaptations, at the University of Teesside.

Clarissa Smith is Professor of Media and Sexual Cultures at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Clementina Elba is a black woman moving through life with the sole purpose of empowering black children from the inside out.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat is an Associate Editor of Adaptation and co-editor of the volumes The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda (2022) and Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige (2017).

Colleen Laird is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Conner Milliken is working on a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Connor Winterton is a PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer in the Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University.

Cordelia Freeman is a senior lecturer in political geography at the University of Exeter, UK.

Cristina Nualart is a cheerful feminist and art lover who highly recommends making life interesting.

Dagmar Brunow is an Associate Professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Dan McKay is a film researcher and an experimental/documentary film director.

Danica van de Velde is a writer and researcher based in Perth, Western Australia.

Daniel Fountain is an artist and Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.

Danielle Seid is assistant professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she teaches courses in film, television, and literature.

David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in Film & Media at the University of Stirling.

Davina Quinlivan is Senior Lecturer in Film (Critical and Historical Studies) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University.

Dayna McLeod is a queer video and performance artist-scholar who actively engages queer and feminist approaches to research-creation through art and media.

Deneesher Pather is a doctoral candidate in Digital Media & Culture and assistant lecturer in Visual Studies.

Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.

Duc Dau is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at The University of Western Australia.

E. Deidre Pribram is Professor in the Communications Department at Molloy College, Long Island, New York.

Elena D’Amelio is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Marino, where she also coordinates the Research Center for International Relations.

Elin Már Øyen Vister is an artist and composer based in Røst, Nordland, Norway-Sápmi who works within several creative disciplines.

mirko nikolić holds a PhD in Arts & Media Practice from the University of Westminster.

Elinor Cleghornis a writer, researcher and poet based in Sussex, UK.

Elizabeth Orcutt is an artist and educator.

Emily Jay is an Assistant Professor of Art at Ohio Northern University.

Emma Maguire is a Lecturer in English and Writing at James Cook University.

Emma Renold is Professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Emma Spruce is a Teaching Fellow in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights at LSE.

Erica Sheen is Professor of Literature and Film in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Erika Kvistad is Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Erika Teichert is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol.

Eugenia Zuroski is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Eva A. Sprecher is a PhD student at the University College London (UCL) Psychoanalysis Unit.

Fenia Kotsopoulou is an award-winning Greek cross-disciplinary artist based in Lincoln (UK).

Feona Attwood is Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Fjoralba Miraka is a research student at Roehampton University and teaching associate, with a research focus on ‘Women, Movie Brats and Sexual Politics in the era of Hollywood Renaissance’.

Freya Johnson is a recent PhD in Human Geography from the University of Bristol. 

Gabriel A. Maher is a designer currently living and working in the Netherlands. With a background in interior architecture, Maher’s practice is essentially focused on relationships between body and structure and an interest in objects and systems.

Gabriella McGrogan (she/her) is PhD student in Criminology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist and writer, originally from Detroit, MI.

Gabrielle McNally is an Assistant Professor of Digital Cinema in the School of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University.

Gal Leshem is a London based artist with a socially engaged practice. Her work centres around the significance of history and collective memory within the construction of local identities.

Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė is a Lithuanian artist and a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Film and Screen, University of Cambridge.

Gemma Blackshaw is Professor of Art History at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London and Academic Associate at the Freud Museum.

Georgina Evans works as a lecturer in French and film at St John’s College, Cambridge.

Giulia Strippoli is a historian (PhD in Historical Studies, University of Turin, 2012).

Gloria Dawson lives in Leeds, UK. She writes poetry, essays and work for performance. She’s recently published in Zarf, Datableed, para.text and The Literateur. Her work has been shown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and anthologised in Remembering Oluwale (Valley Press, 2016).

Gracia Ramirez is based in London where she lectures at the School of Media of London College of Communications, University of the Arts.

Han Geng is an AHRC funded PhD student in Film Studies at the University of Southampton.

Hannah Dear is a writer based in Southend-On-Sea/London who writes about ecological and geopolitical issues in relation to art, culture and politics.

Hannah Hamad is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Cardiff University, and the author of Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film (New York and London: Routledge, 2014).

Harriet Lee-Merrion is an artist and illustrator.

Harriet Worsey is a recent Film graduate from Falmouth University.

Hatty Nestor is a cultural critic and writer, published in Frieze, The Times Literary Supplement, The White Review and many other publications.

Heather Diack is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Miami.

Heather Salter Dromm is an instructor of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

Helen Cahill is a leading innovator of dialogic wellbeing interventions for use in the school and community sectors in Australia and within developing countries in the Asia-Pacific and the region of East and Southern Africa.

Helen Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University.

Helena Hunter works across text, film, performance and sculptural assemblage, blending languages of science with art, poetry and fiction to reimagine material agency and forms of ecological knowing.

Hester Baer is Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland.

Houman Sadri is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, specialising in English Literature and Popular Culture.

Ina Rae Hark, founder of the Film and Media Studies major at the University of South Carolina, retired from teaching in 2009 after an academic career marked by original scholarship on popular media cultures.

Ingrid Ryberg is a filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

Irina Souch is Lecturer in the Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam and Research Affiliate in the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).

Isabel Seguí is a Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and a holder of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

Isabelle Labrouillère is a lecturer at ENSAV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’AudioVisuel), an in-house film school at Toulouse II Jean Jaurès University, and a member of the Lara-Seppia laboratory (Savoirs, Praxis et Poïétiques en Art).

Isabelle McNeill is the Philomathia Fellow in French and Film at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where she has taught film studies and French literature since 2005.

Jacob Breslow is a Teaching Fellow in Transnational Gender and Sexuality Studies at LSE, where he co-convenes a course on feminist epistemologies with Emma Spruce.

Jacqueline Gibbs is a Lecturer in Sociology at Middlesex University. Her research focuses on feminist theoretical engagements with the concept of vulnerability.

Jade Elizabeth French’s work explores the poetics of ageing in modernist and mid-century texts, visual culture and film.

Jana Fedtke is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates).

Janne Stigen Drangsholt is Professor of English Literature at the Department of Culture and Language Studies, University of Stavanger.

Jeanette Spicer works in photography and video to explore intimacy, the lesbian gaze, and the body’s analogous nature to space, and objects.

Jem Mackay is the course leader for MA Film & Television (Online) at Falmouth University.

Jennifer Duggan is Associate Professor of English, Head of English, and Deputy Head of Language and Literature for English at USN.

Jennifer Handy is a fiction writer whose work explores sexuality, psychological trauma, mental illness, homelessness, severed family relationships, and environmental issues.

Jennifer Lynde Barker is an Associate Professor of film studies at Bellarmine University, where she directs the Film Studies minor and specialises in animation and film history and aesthetics.

Jennifer Stob is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas State University.

Jenny Chamarette is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at QMUL and Director of Graduate Studies for the department.

Jessica Ford is a Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies and an early career researcher in the Gender Research Network at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education and co-chair of the International Gender and Education Association.

Jessica Tillings is a poet, artist, editor and events organiser based in West Lancashire. Her poetry has appeared in The Wolf, Datableed & Zarf.

Jessica Wax-Edwards is an honorary research fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, where she completed her PhD in 2018.

Jiratorn Sakulwattana is a lecturer at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University in Thailand.

Joanna Callaghan is an artist filmmaker and Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Sussex.

John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research.

Jonathan Wyatt is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh.

Jordana Blejmar is Senior Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool.

Julia Coffey is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Júlia Havas is Lecturer in Media at De Montfort University (Leicester UK).

Julia Sattler is based at TU Dortmund University, where she investigates the intersections of activism and writing from various angles.

Julia Winckler is a photographer, academic, experienced participatory arts facilitator, curriculum developer and principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media

Juliet Winter is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at the University of Winchester.

Justine Atkinson is reading a PhD entitled, ‘Representation Matters: On- and off-screen diversity within African cinema exhibition in the UK’ at the University of Glasgow.

Kadija Sesay FRSA is a literary activist, writer, editor and co-founder of Mboka Festival for Arts, Culture and Sport.

Dr Karen Brooks is the author of twelve books (fiction and non-fiction), a weekly columnist in a major Australian newspaper and has been published in a range of academic books and journals internationally on topics such as popular culture, literature, education and youth.

Karen Sztajnberg is a Brazillian filmmaker and researcher at the Amsterdam
School for Cultural Analysis working on Latin American Cinema, Spectatorship
and Theory of Desire.

Katarzyna Ancuta is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Kate C. Hashemi is a Senior Research Associate at the Middle East Consultancy Services and sits on the board of trustees for TWWR.

Kate Levey is the daughter of Brigid Brophy and Michael Levey. Now 62, she writes about her parents, having started “deplorably late” to take an interest in their outstanding lives and achievements.

Kate Lewis Hood is a writer and editor from the Midlands, UK. She completed Master’s degree in contemporary women’s poetry and the Anthropocene at the University of Edinburgh. She is the founding editor of CUMULUS and amberflora. 

Kate Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Italian Culture, Media and Gender at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Kate Robertson is an Australian-born, New York-based author and critic with a PhD from the University of Sydney.

Katherine Champion is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication and Programme Director for the MSc Media Management at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

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Katie Tobin is a PhD candidate in English Literature and Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Katve-Kaisa Kontturi works as a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Turku, Finland.

Kelly Parker is a doctoral student and visiting lecturer at Falmouth University’s School of Communication.

Kerreen Ely-Harper is a creative media researcher and filmmaker with a background in theatre and film performance.

Kevin Haworth is Giles Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University and the author of the Eisner-nominated Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets.

Ki Wight is a full-time lecturer at Capilano University in the Communication Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Liberal Studies and Motion Picture Arts programs, and a  PhD candidate in the Equity Studies in Education program at Simon Fraser University.

Kierran Horner is currently researching ethical representations of female suicide in post-war European film.

Kim Donaldson is a Senior Lecturer in Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, and practising artist and curator. 

Kingsley Marshall is Head of Film & Television at the CILECT accredited School of Film & Television, and a member of the project team at the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, both based at Falmouth University, UK.

KRAFT is a Swedish freelance cooperative business working within craft.

Krissy Mahan is a working class daughter, filmmaker, and elementary school aide.

Krista Calvo is a Mestiza PhD researcher at Northumbria University studying child autonomy, cultural conservatism and moral panics in Reagan era American horror cinema.

Krista Grensavitch, Ph.D. is a lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies, History, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

Kylie Thomas is a Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. 

Lara G. (@SrtaLaraG) is a queer Catalan millennial who migrated to London seven years ago.

Larval Rock Stars is an ongoing multi-modal project (website, writing, performance/sound/video experiments, couplings, twinning) of the distributed intelligence of the orbifold twins who hold the larva between them–Anuj Vaidya and Praba Pilar, also known as Pilarvaidya.

Laura Stamm completed her PhD in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught for programs in Film and Media Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Pittsburgh and University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Lauren Elkin is the author, most recently, of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto & Windus/FSG), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Leanne Dawson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

Li Zeng is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Illinois State University.

Lindsay Steenberg is Reader/Associate Professor in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema.

Linnéa Saaranen has an MA in Film Studies from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She specialises in Feminist Film Theory, Gender Theory and Cultural Analysis.

Lisa Hill has taught screen and media studies in Australian universities for 10 years. Her publications explore nostalgia, adaptation, the representation of gender on screen, children’s media, celebrity and feminism.

Lizelle Bisschoff is a researcher and curator of African film and the founder of the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival, an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, now in its 13^th year (www.africa-in-motion.org.uk). Lizelle holds a PhD in African cinema from the University of Stirling in Scotland, in which she researched the role of women in African film.

Lottie Whalen is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow, UK.

Louise Anne Buchler is based in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. She is a poet, performer, director and playwright.

Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall/University of Cambridge) is an academic, quiltmaker and aspiring textile artist. As Professor in Medieval Iberian Cultural and Literary Studies she works on issues relating to humour, the body, identity and the collective.

Lourdes Chuan Banda is a member of the Asociación de Mujeres en Defensa de la Vida. For the last 10 years she has been engaged in struggles in defence of water and life.

Luca Tainio lives between Sweden and Finland and works as a doctoral researcher with the PhD Programme in Gender, Culture and Society at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Lucy Benjamin is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. In her dissertation she explores the question of ‘earth’ and ‘world’ as taken up in 20th century German philosophy in order to rethink questions around political action and the right to live in view of anthropogenic climate change.

Luisa Magdalena is an Argentinian feminist born in San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1990. She is a photographer and Art Director.

Lydia Hounat is a British-Algerian writer and photographer.

Lydia Tuan is a PhD candidate in the departments of Film and Media Studies and Italian Studies at Yale University.

Lynn-Sayers McHattie is Professor of Design Innovation in the Innovation School, a post-disciplinary school at The Glasgow School of Art.

Magdalena Tymicka is a Polish journalist and press editor.

MAI is an international board of feminist scholars and creative professionals who contribute to MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture.

Mairead Case is a working writer and teacher. Currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Denver, she teaches poetry and narrative at DU, the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the Denver women’s jail.

Manisha Sinha is a research scholar at Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University (Noida) in India.

Margaret Mertz is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose research investigates how gender, cultural theory, and feminism intersect in historical and media narratives.

Margeaux Feldman is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, where she also holds a Certificate in Community-Engaged Learning.

Margherita Sprio is a Reader in Film and Visual Culture and the Deputy Director of the Graduate School at the University of Westminster. 

Maria Gil Ulldemolins is a PhD student in the Architecture and Arts faculty in Hasselt University, Belgium

Maria Margareta Österholm is a lecturer in Gender Studies at Stockholm University and member of the research project Contemporary Swedish Feminist Comics as Medium for Political Activism and Critique.

Maria Rosario Montero is a feminist research artist, she is interested in how power structures affect landscape, identity, and territory representations.

Maria Sledmere is an artist and poet, finishing a DFA in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK and Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2018-19.

Mariah Larsson is a Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her recent publications include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017) and Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution: Critical Essays (with Elisabet Björklund, 2016).

Marija Antic is a Teaching Associate at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Marion Wallace was Lead Curator, Africa at the British Library 2003–2022 and co-curator of the ‘Khadija Saye: In This Space We Breathe’ exhibition (2020–2021).

Born in Baltimore, MD, USA, Marlo De Lara is a sound performance artist and experimental filmmaker.

Marta Poncelas was born in Vega de Espinareda, Leon, Spain. From an early age, she displayed a particular passion for photography as a vital tool for creating the future.

Mary Harrod is Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick.

Mary McGill is a Hardiman scholar at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). Her research explores young women’s engagement with the selfie phenomenon. Her areas of interest include digital culture, visual culture, gender and (post-) feminisms. She lectures in gender and feminist theory at NUIG’s Centre for Global Women’s Studies.

Mathias Barkhausen studied media studies and German literature at the University of Bonn and Charles University in Prague, graduating in 2021 with an MA thesis on Agnès Varda’s approach to documentary and fiction filmmaking.

May Santiago is a cultural studies scholar and essay filmmaker.

Melanie Robson holds a PhD in film studies from UNSW Sydney. She teaches film at UNSW and AFTRS.

Melissa Oliver-Powell (she/her) is a lecturer in Film and Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, whose research focuses on issues of mothering, politics, and social justice in film.

Melissa Stone is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media program.

Michael Black is finalising his PhD on Virginia Woolf and William Blake at the University of Glasgow.

Michaëla Cogan teaches at the English Department of the Université de Franche-Comté (France) and holds a PHD in American Literature.

Michaela Pospíšilová Králová is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and photographer.

Michelle Devereaux is an independent researcher and film journalist.

Mihaela Brebenel is a screen and visual studies researcher. They are an active curator interested in feminist and queer practices, as well as the aesthetics and politics of screen (and other) technologies.

Mike Classon Frangos is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research on Swedish feminist comics has been funded by the Swedish Research Council (2018-2022) and Östersjöstiftelsen (2017).

Miki Shaw is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer.

Minou Norouzi is a filmmaker, writer and curator.

Miriam Kent has a PhD in Film Studies with a focus on Marvel superheroes and comic book adaptation.

mirko nikolić holds a PhD in Arts & Media Practice from the University of Westminster.

Misha Grifka Wander (he/they) is a PhD candidate in the Ohio State University English Department.

Missy F. Hannah is a Ph.D. Student in the Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media program at North Carolina State University.

Morgan Bimm is a PhD student in the department of Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. 

Natalia Brammen is an undergraduate Film student at Falmouth University.

Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha is a film researcher and programmer specialising in Latin American cinema.

Natasha Farrell is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in Memorial University’s English department.

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Nassau Community College, NY. 

Neil Fox is a Senior Lecturer for BA (Hons) Film at Falmouth University’s School of Film & Television where he also convenes the Sound/Image Cinema Lab.

Nell Osborne is completing a research PhD on intimacy, gender and experimental writing by women at the University of Manchester.

Nia Davies is a poet. She is also an editor of Poetry Wales. Her approach has always been transcultural and she has collaborated and curated internationally; her poetry has been translated into several languages. She is currently studying performance, undertaking practice-based research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford.

Nicky Arscott is an artist and poet living in Mid Wales. Her writing has been widely
published in journals and magazines across the UK and the USA, and her poetry comics were
recently exhibited at MOMA Wales.

Nicole Fayard is Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester.

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya is Teaching Professor at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University.

Noel Nuccioni is a set designer working in the fields of cinema, media and performing arts. She recently graduated from BA(Hons) Film at Falmouth University.

Nosheen is an artist, designer, film tech and moving image curator.

Nupoor Ranade is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media program at the North Carolina State University with a focus on technical communication, usability analysis, data analysis and rhetorical studies in Artificial Intelligence and the IoT domains.

Oksana Kazmina has degrees from Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National Theater, Film and Television University and Moving Academy for Performing Arts Amsterdam. She works in the fields of media and performing art and cinema.

Oliver Kenny is a teaching and research fellow in British Studies at the University of Lille, France.

Olivia Khoo is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, born and based in London, United Kingdom.

Onyekachi Iwu is a Nigerian-American filmmaker, playwright, and poet from Nashville, Tennessee.

Orla Fitzpatrick is a librarian and photographic historian from Dublin, Ireland.

Patricia Prieto-Blanco lectures at the School of Media, University of Brighton, UK. Her areas of expertise are visual research methods, photography and migration. She is an advocate of interdisciplinary, participatory and practice-based research, as well as a proud member of HYSTERIA radical feminist collective.

Patricia Sutton works with creative, phenomenological and auto/ethnographic methodologies to explore wellbeing, bullying, gender inequities & creativity.

Paulette Jonguitud is the author of two novels: Mildew (CB Editions) and Algunas margaritas y sus fantasmas (Penguin Random House, Mexico). She lives in Mexico City.

Paulina Żurawska is currently engaged in freelance film production and maintains her academic pursuits through two film blogs www.daisiesmovies.com and www.filmosophy.co.uk/blog.

Paz Bustamante is Professor of Philosophy in Middle-Higher Education (UBA).

Pembe Gozde Erdogan received her BA, MA and PhD from Hacettepe University, Department of American Culture and Literature in Ankara, Turkey, where she had worked as a lecturer for 10 years.

Phillip Crymble is a physically disabled poet and literary scholar from Belfast now living in Atlantic Canada.

Phoebe Macrossan’s research interests revolve around digital screen formats and debates, with a focus on the intersections between popular music, screen studies and new media. 

Phoebe Pua is a recovering academic and an independent film programmer specialising in Southeast Asian and contemporary independent cinemas.

Pip Bishop works across painting, textiles, printmaking and curation. She is known for her intuitive and expressive use of colour as an abstract expressionist response.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning translator, poet and writer. 

Quan Zhang is an independent filmmaker with a keen focus on the intersection of technology and the human experience in the 21st century.

Rachel R. Miller earned her PhD from The Ohio State University where she was a Presidential Fellow.

Rachel Ramsay is an English-language lecturer at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and mother of two children.

Raisa Kabir is an artist, textiles researcher and weaver. 

Rasha Chatta is an Associate Researcher at the Einstein Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is completing a monograph titled Sketching Migration in Arab Comics: War Narratives, Conflicted Memory, and Gender. 

Rebecca Coleman is Reader and Co-Director of the Methods Lab in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Rebecca Harrison is a feminist writer and academic. She lectures in Film and Television at the University of Glasgow.  She’s recently published her first monograph, From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity (I B Tauris), and is now working on a book about media technologies and Star Wars, as well as various creative writing projects.

Rebecca Jones is a PhD student in the Cinema and Television History Department at De Montfort University, Leicester. She researches representations of female AIs and robots in postmillennial, science fiction film. She completed her Masters in Adaptation Studies at De Montfort University, focusing on the intertextual adaptation of Shakespeare within science fiction films and novels.

Rebecca Louise Tiernan is an Irish-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Floating between installation and narrative mediums, her work explores the entwined relationships between filmmaking, dreaming, and femininity.

Rebecca Rouse, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration in the School of Informatics at the University of Skövde, Sweden.

Rebecca Scherr is Professor of American literature in the English department of the University of Oslo.

Rebecca Tamás works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University; and her poetry and criticism have been published in The White Review, The London Review of Books, and Granta, amongst others.

Rishita Nandagiri is a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.

Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Romina Belda is a Spanish photographer whose approach to the locations and people she photographs is instinctive and subjective.

Rosa Mulraney is a Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University, specialising in post-production, visual effects, and project management, with extensive industry experience.

Rosalind Brown is a PhD candidate in Creative-Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. 

Rosie Findlay is Lecturer in Media Studies at City, University of London.

Rosie Reed Hillman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist.

Roxy Hornbeck, MFA, is an Assistant Professor in Arts Leadership at Seattle University.

Roz Mortimer is a London-based artist and filmmaker who works with marginalised communities, developing works that communicate complex and traumatic histories.

Ruby Aylin is a London South Bank University Film Practice graduate and is now working to create a supportive online community for women and other marginalised genders in her hometown of Birmingham through her work for @grlgangbrum .

Saba Vasefi is a multi-award-winning scholar-journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker.

Sabina Stent is a freelance entertainment writer and independent scholar who completed her PhD thesis ‘Women Surrealists: Sexuality, Fetish, Femininity and Female Surrealism’ at the University of Birmingham in 2012.

Sam Kaufman is a visual artist, filmmaker and current PhD researcher at Kingston School of Art.

Sam Langsdale (she/her) is an independent feminist scholar whose work focuses on the cultural politics around representation of gender, sexuality, and race in visual culture.

Sama Khosravi Ooryad (she/her) is a MSCA-PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies at the department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

Samanta Tello was born in Barcelona, Spain, and studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. Nearly 18 years ago, she settled in San Francisco.

Samantha Walton is a poet, researcher and publisher based in Bristol. 

Samira Rajabi is an Instructor and Director of Digital Influenced Pedagogy at the University of Colorado.

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is an internationally recognised scholar on Agnès Varda.

Sara Ishii is an interdisciplinary feminist artist/scholar.

Sara Kazemimanesh is a Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Arts and a scholar/artist in Film at Ohio University.

Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Gender & Production Studies at Maynooth University. She is preparing the book Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences.

Sarah E. S. Sinwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah.

Sarah E. Truman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Melbourne.

Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer and Faculty at The Royal Drawing School, London.

Sarah Molisso is a doctoral researcher in the Sociology department at City, University of London.

Sarah Ralph is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University.

Sarah-Joy Ford is an Artist, Post-Graduate Researcher and Associate Lecturer at the Manchester School of Art.

Sasha Cocarla is a sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Shana MacDonald is an Associate Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo.

Shannon Power is a lifelong horror fan and recent graduate of Mount Allison University. She is pursuing a degree in education.

Sheri Hagen is an actor and film director. She was born in Lagos/Nigeria but grew up in Hamburg where she completed her training at the Stage School of Dance and Drama. She also trained in Austria.

Shoshana Magnet is a mother of two as well as full professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Sian Davey is a photographer with a background in Fine Art and Social Policy.

Sibongile Mpofu is a research fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa where she completed her PhD in 2017.

So Mayer is the author of A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower, 2009).

Solomiya Moroz is a Canadian-Ukrainian musician, pursuing a PhD in music composition at the University of Huddersfield. She has a Master’s degree in Live Electronics from the Conservatory of Amsterdam where she became engaged with hybrid forms of sound in electronic and instrumental music, as well as media arts.

Sophia completed her MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought at the University of Sussex in 2015.

Sreerupa is a Young India Fellow (2020) and the recipient of the Sasakawa Young Leaders’ Fellowship Fund (2019) from Jadavpur University, which she won for an independent research project on the Jewish Diaspora of Calcutta.

Stacy Holman Jones is a Professor of Performance Studies at Monash University Faculty of Arts, Centre for Theatre and Performance (Melbourne).

Stefanie Van de Peer is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on women in documentary and animation filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked for several film festivals as an adviser and programmer, and has been affiliated with Africa in Motion since 2007.

Stephanie Springgay is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

Storm Greenwood is an artist-scholar, singer-songwriter and AHRC funded doctoral candidate based in London.

Susanna Crossman is an Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist.

Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland.

Suzanna Petot is a curator and writer based in London.

Sydney Heifler is a queer artist and writer based in Columbus, Ohio.

Tanya Horeck is an Associate Professor in Film, Media & Culture at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK.

Tara Page (PhD) is an artist research teacher who researches the entanglements of practice with pedagogy, specifically the making and learning of place and belonging underpinned by new materialist theories.

Tara Pixley is a queer, first generation Jamaican-American photographer, filmmaker and media scholar based in Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Loyola Marymount University.

Tasia Alexopoulos is a teacher and PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies.

Teresa Forde is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Derby.

Terri Carney is Professor of Spanish at Butler University and Affiliate Faculty to Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Tessa Lewin is a creative practitioner and researcher with Southern African roots.

Tessa Nunn is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University.

Thabani Mpofu is a media and communications specialist with experience in multi-media content production, training, mentorship, research, monitoring, and management.

The Gender & Performance Studies Group (GECE) from the University of Aveiro is coordinated by Professor Maria Manuel Baptista.

Theresa Trimmel is a PhD-researcher in Film Studies with the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK. Her PhD-project explores female authorship, agency, and representation in contemporary scripted US television.

Tim Palmer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

Tina Krekels is a musician with saxophone, microphones, spit, noises, electronics and feminism. She researches feminist technoscience to critique male supremacy in music. She likes to take polemical standpoints.

Tori Potenza (she/they) is a queer writer based out of Philadelphia, PA. They are a film critic and horror writer whose work analyses body horror as well as sex and gender themes in film.

Tracy Piper-Wright is an academic artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Chester.

Tuğçe Kutlu completed her undergraduate education in Radio, Television and Film as a valedictorian at Ankara University, Türkiye, and then received another BA in International Relations from Anadolu University, Türkiye.

Ucheyamere Nkwam-Uwaoma is a PhD student at Bournemouth University. His research interest centres on Nollywood, the horror genre, and the representation of women in African films (particularly Nigerian).

Ulrike Hanstein is director of the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz, Austria.

Vahni Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction.

Valentina Re is a Full Professor at the Link Campus University of Rome.

Valeria Arévalos is a doctoral candidate in History and Theory of the Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Professor of Secondary and Higher Education in Arts at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Valeria Villegas Lindvall is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Gothenburg and specialises in Latin American horror film with a feminist and decolonial focus.

Vanessa Fairfax-Woods is a conceptual photographer based in the UK, who works with the issues of gender inequality and feminism.

Vanessa is an academic, artist and designer based in East Sussex, England.

Vasiliki Belia is a PhD candidate at the Department of Literature and Art, Maastricht University.

Vassilis Gerasopoulos is a PhD candidate in the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology in the University of Utrecht.

Vicky’s research interests include Gender Studies with a particular focus on applying this theoretical framework to analysing oral literature performances among the Indo-Fijian community in Fiji. His MA focused on the influential role folklore performances played in the ‘gendering’ process of individuals.

Vikki Chalklin is a queer femme performer, activist and scholar based in London.

Vipula P.C. is a PhD research scholar at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad, India.

Virginie Despentes is an award-winning author and filmmaker, and a noted French feminist and cultural critic. She is the award of many award-winning books, including King Kong Theory, Apocalypse Baby (winner of the 2010 Prix Renaudot), and Vernon Subutex (winner of the Anaïs-Nin Prize 2015, Prix Landerneau 2015, Prix La Coupole 2015). She also co-directed the screen adaptations of her controversial novels Baise-Moi and Bye Bye Blondie, as well as screenwriter for the film adaptation of her novel, Pretty Things, starring Marion Cotillard.

Waltraud Maierhofer is a Professor of German and Global Health Studies at the University of Iowa.

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist and researcher based in Cambridgeshire, UK.

Wazhmah Osman is an Afghan-American academic and filmmaker. Currently, she is an assistant professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University.

Wiam Milles is a researcher in feminist media studies at the University of East Anglia.

Wibke Straube works as a research coordinator and senior lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden.

Winnie Soon is an artist-researcher-coder-educator who resides in Hong Kong and Denmark.

Wuon-Gean Ho is a research associate and the inaugural editor of  the IMPACT Printmaking Journal, an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West of England, Bristol. UK

Xin Liu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, and a guest researcher at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University of Gothenburg. 

Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths.

Yasmine is an up and coming photographer based in London specialising in portraiture and has recently graduated BA(Hons) n Fine Art Photography at the London College of Communication. 

Yasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker and researcher.

Yelizaveta (Liza) Shapiro is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Ylenia Olibet is a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, Canada, where she is conducting research on francophone women’s film festivals and the geopolitics of feminisms.

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.

Zainab Marvi is a Pakistani designer, researcher, illustrator, and educator, based in Germany.