Jesse Cohn

Jesse Cohn, the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics and numerous other essays on anarchist culture, is an associate professor of English at Purdue University North Central, where he teaches courses on literature, interpretive methods, and popular culture. His translation of a chapter from Benoît Peeters' Case, planche, récit: lire la bande dessinée will appear in a forthcoming issue of ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.

David Doillon

David Doillon is presently writing a PhD thesis on the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922), and on the movement he originated, "magonismo", at the University Nancy 2.

He participated in the international colloquia organized by the research group Culture et Histoire dans le Monde Luso-Hispanophone of the University Nancy 2 : Approches pluridisciplinaire de l’identité culturelle dans le monde luso-hispanophone (10 et 11 décembre 2004) and Mémoire et Culture dans le monde luso-hispanophone (1er et 2 juin 2006), where he has presented papers entitled "Un anarchiste, symbole de l’identité nationale mexicaine : le cas de Ricardo Flores Magón" (in L'identité culturelle dans le monde luso-hispanophone, edited by Nicole Fourtané and Michèle Guiraud, Nancy, PUN, 2006) and "Mémoire du Magonisme, identités contestataires et cultures de lutte au Mexique" (forthcoming).

He has authored a prologue to the Brazilian edition of Diego Abad de Santillán’s book Ricardo Flores Magón. El apóstol de la Revolución Social Mexicana (Ricardo Flores Magón. O apóstolo da Revolução Mexicana, Río de Janeiro, Faísca/Robson Achiamé/FARJ, 2006). He has also completed an inventory of materials on the magonista movement available at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Anarchisme (CIRA) of Lausanne, Switzerland (Bulletin du CIRA, n° 62, mai 2006).

Björn-Olav Dozo

Björn-Olav Dozo is a researcher and a graduate student at the University of Liège (Belgium). He is finishing a PhD thesis on Belgian francophone authors in between the two world wars. He works for CIEL (an inter-university collective on literary studies funded by the Belgian francophone community in cooperation with the Université libre de Bruxelles). This collective is setting up a computerized database of authors, works and publications of the francophone region of Belgium from 1920 to 1960, and publishes a collection dedicated to mostly Belgian literary works, the first volume of which, entitled Les réseaux littéraires, appeared in Brussels in May 2006.

Séverine Drevet

Séverine Drevet is a graduate of the Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble) with a dissertation entitled Voyage au coeur du polar français. Enjeux, valeurs et construction d'un groupe under the supervision of Barbara Michel. She has been out of work since then and she's taking care of her baby.

Philippe Ethuin

Philippe Ethuin was born in 1972. After obtaining a BA in History (1994), he has been teaching Literature, History and Geography in high school since 1995. In June 2004, after finishing a B.A. in Modern Literature, he obtained an M.A. cum laude with a thesis on the subject of Rouletabille chez le tsar et La Cravate de chanvre. Stéréotypes, Idéologie, Ecriture at the Université de Picardie Jules-Verne. Concurrently with his teaching responsibilities, he is preparing a thesis for a Master II program (ex-DEA) entitled Poétique d'un imaginaire à la Belle Epoque : l'image de l'étranger dans la série Fantômas. He is a member of l'Association des Amis du Roman Populaire and publishes regularly in the journal Rocambole. He has recently published "Traces de Michel Strogoff dans Rouletabille chez le tsar et La Cravate de chanvre" (in "Dans le sillage de Jules Verne", Le Rocambole n°30, Spring 2005) and co-edited the No. 38, on the subject of "Les réducteurs de textes". He has collaborated to several volumes of the Bibliothèque Rouge, a collection on the great figures of popular literature published by Les Moutons Electriques.

Anton Karl Kozlovic

Anton Karl Kozlovic B.A., B.Ed., Dip.Ed. (Adelaide), B.A. (Deakin), Grad.Dip.Ed.(Rel.Ed.) (S.A.C.A.E.), Grad.Dip.Media (A.F.T.R.S.), M.A., M.Ed., M.Ed.Studies, Ph.D. (forthcoming) (Flinders).

Anton is a postgraduate in Screen Studies, School of Humanities, Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) who is interested in Religion-and-Film, Interreligious Dialogue, DeMille Studies, Computer Films, Popular Culture, Applied Cinema and the New Age. He is currently writing a thesis and book on the biblical cinema of Cecil B. DeMille.

He has published articles in numerous journals, as well as critical entries and book chapters in The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors (Allon, Y., Cullen, D., & Patterson, H. eds., 2001) and Sex, Religion, Media (Claussen, D. S. ed., 2002). He is co-editor (with Adam Possamai) of a forthcoming book on religion and popular culture, topic editor for a forthcoming pop culture issue of Australian Religion Studies Review, and multiple contributor to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Religion and Film (Mazur, E. M. ed.).

Dominique Le Duc

Dominique Le Duc is a senior lecturer (Media & French) at Brighton University; her subjects include Bande dessinée and cartoon journalism. Her scholarly writing focuses on self-representation in autobiographical nineties independent 'New Bande dessinée'. She has also interviewed for UK Comics Festival audiences UNESCO envoy mangaka Tetsuya Chiba (Brighton, 2003) and French mangaka Frédéric Boilet (London ICA, 2003).

Martino Marazzi

Martino Marazzi (martino.marazzi@unimi.it) teaches Italian literature at the Università degli Studi in Milan. He has published among others Voices of Italian America. A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison-Teaneck (N.J.) 2004; Misteri di Little Italy. Storie e testi della letteratura italoamericana, Franco Angeli, Milano 2001; Little America. Gli Stati Uniti e gli scrittori italiani del Novecento, Marcos y Marcos, Milano 1997. He has edited the works of Italian-American authors (Arturo Giovannitti, Michael Fiaschetti, Efrem Bartoletti), and has published articles on Italian and Italian-American literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (most recently on Fante, Cavour, Lapolla, Linder, Pinocchio, Arbasino, Capuana).

Isabelle Marinone

Isabelle Marinone teaches and does research at the Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has a doctorate in History and Aesthetics of Cinema from the Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, and is a specialist of libertarian cinema in France. She has written a dissertation entitled Anarchisme et cinéma : Panoramique sur une histoire du 7ème art français virée au noir (2004), and has published several articles on this same subject.

Maja Mikula

Maja Mikula is Senior Lecturer and Head of Italian Studies at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney. Maja researches and publishes in the areas of popular culture, cultural studies, Italian culture, national identity and gender. She is currently working on a project that examines patterns of local and national allegiance, of broader European identifications, and of 'in-betweenness' in diasporic Italo-Australia in Italian and Italo-Australian detective fiction.

Séverine Olivier

Born in 1982 in Liège, Séverine Olivier has a B.A. in Romance languages and literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2004). She collaborates with the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), and is presently writing a PhD thesis under the direction of Paul Aron, entitled "Contemporary love novels and how they are read: reflections on a despised paraliterary genre, followed by an in-depth analysis of the sociological and cultural profile of its readers". This thesis builds upon previous less-detailed explorations (see in particular Séverine Olivier, "Passionnément, à la folie... : Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour", Belphégor, vol. 4, n°2, mai 2005, http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor).

Bounthavy Suvilay

Bounthavy Suvilay is a doctoral student of Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle university (Paris III). She has been writing for magazines specializing in Manga and in Japanese animation since 1995. She has directed a special issue of the magazine Animeland (No. 5, 2003), offering a guide to Manga (most important authors, publishing, graphic and narrative peculiarities) and animation (series; mythological glossary). She is presently preparing another special issue (No. 10) on the same subject with more current information. She has presented a paper on the influence of oriental mythology and of comics on the Mangas of Akira Toriyama at the colloquium « Mythe et bande dessinée » organized by the CRLMC, on November 18-20, 2004. She has published an article on disguise in comics for young women ("L'héroïne travestie dans le shôjo manga : entre création d'un genre et revendication féministe", Image [&] narrative, Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, No. 7, October 2003, http://www.imageandnarrative.be/graphicnovel/bounthavysuvilay.htm).

She is particularly interested in the representation of robots in Mangas and Japanese animation. She has contributed several papers on this subject: - Robots, cyborgs, intelligence artificielle : le corps féminin dans le manga et le dessin animé japonais, Les représentations du corps dans les oeuvres fantastiques et de science-fiction : figures et fantasmes, Colloque du CERLI du vendredi 18 et samedi 19 novembre 2005, Université Paris XII.
- Quelques représentations de la nanotechnologie dans une bande dessinée japonaise de science-fiction : Gunnm, Séminaire Général du SFPhi (Groupe de travail « Sciences, fictions, philosophie ») du 11 avril 2005 à l'ENS Ulm, Anticipation, extrapolation, spéculation, fiction... ex: les nanotechnologies
In April 2005 she has been responsible for a workshop (« Introduction aux manga ») at the Chaudfontaine center for the study of literature, popular literature, comics and cinema, in Belgium.

Marcello Zane

Marcello Zane is a Researcher at the "Luigi Micheletti Foundation" in Brescia (Italy), a Research Centre on contemporary social history. He has published and edited several volumes of historical works for this institution, as well as directed its contribution to the project "Museo dell'Industria e del Lavoro Eugenio Battisti". He has also been active with the Fondaçao Blumenau (State of Santa Caterina, Brasil) thanks to a study grant obtained by this foundation in 1990, and has worked at the Universidad Autonoma De Madrid (Spain) through the EEC's Leonardo Program in 1996.

He has published books and essays on the development of community identity in light of economic modernization in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on the story of various companies and private and public institutions, with publishers such asLaterza, Il Mulino, UTET, Franco Angeli, Feltrinelli, La Scuola Editrice, Edizioni Scientifiche di Napoli, Jaca Book, Teti Editore, Logman Press, etc.