Genders 47    2008 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS DIANE NEGRA is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. She is the author of What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (Routledge, 2008) and Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (Routledge, 2001), editor of The Irish in US: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (Duke, 2006) and co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke, 2007) and A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (Duke, 2002). SU HOLMES is Reader in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s (Intellect, 2005), Entertaining TV: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s (Manchester UP, 2008), and The Quiz Show (Edinburgh UP, 2008), and she is currently working on a monograph on the 1974 documentary serial, The Family (After Reality TV: Revisiting The Family) (forthcoming, Manchester UP). She is the co-editor of Understanding Reality TV (Routledge, 2004), Framing Celebrity (Routledge, 2006) and Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader (Sage, 2007). SHELLEY COBB holds a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in literature and film in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton. She writes on film adaptation, female authorship, and popular culture. KIRSTY FAIRCLOUGH is Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford. Her doctoral work is focussed on celebrity bodies, makeover culture and post-feminism. Other research interests include the normalization of cosmetic surgery in popular culture and movements within American independent cinema. MARGARET SCHWARTZ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Her dissertation, which she is revising into a book, analyzed representations of the embalmed corpse of Evita Perón. Her translation of the novel Museum of Eterna's Novel by the Argentine avant-gardist Macedonio Fernández is forthcoming from Open Letter Press. EMMA BELL is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Brighton. Her areas of research include the representation of mental health and disability, talk TV, avant-garde cinema, critical theory, continental philosophy, and intellectual history. Her recent publications include essays on Harmony Korine, Lars von Trier, Dogme '95, and philosophical pragmatism. She is currently preparing a monograph on madness, art and critical theory. ALICE LEPPERT and JULIE WILSON are Ph.D. students in Critical Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Leppert researches television and film history, focusing on sitcoms, melodrama, and soap opera. Ms. Wilson is currently writing her dissertation on contemporary celebrity culture and global governmentalities. Current Issue || Download || Editorial Board || Submission Guidelines || Recent Issues || Links & Books Views or conclusions published on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or conclusions of the editors or the editorial board. Genders Journal Campus Box 226 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 http://www.Genders.org Copyright ©2006 Ann Kibbey. All Rights Reserved. This Web Site Created by EhrenWerks, LLC