Contributors . Patrick Adamson is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews, . working on a dissertation titled The 1920s Epic Western and Hollywood . Historical Cinema. He is author of ‘American history at the Foreign . Office: exporting the silent epic Western’, an essay published in Film . History that was awarded Best Doctoral Student Article, BAFTSS . Awards 2020. He is also the book reviews editor at Frames Cinema . Journal. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/61/2/339/5860190 by guest on 23 September 2021 . Christian Dymond is a postdoctoral candidate in film studies, focusing . on contemporary experimental film in the context of the current . ecological crisis. His forthcoming doctoral thesis, A View of Things to . Come, considers recent and emergent trends in experimental film . practice through the intersecting lenses of process-oriented studies, . formal applications, production contexts and dissemination methods. Georgina Evans is Lecturer in French at St John’s College, University . of Cambridge. Cassandra Guan is a PhD candidate and Presidential Fellow in the . Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her . dissertation, Maladaptive Media: Life and Other Political Emergencies, . explores the discursive and technological apparatuses of animation that . radically alienate living beings from their biological environments. Her . research focuses on interwar Europe (including post-revolutionary . Russia) and the People’s Republic of China between 1956 and 1966. Selmin Kara is Associate Professor of Film and New Media Studies at . OCAD University in Toronto. Her primary research interests are digital . aesthetics and ecological sensibilities in cinema, as well as the use of . sound and new technologies in contemporary documentary. Jonathan L. Knapp is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies at . Harvard University. His current research revolves around media and the . environment, and his dissertation examines location scouting and . location management practices for feature films, with a focus on the . 1940s to the 1980s. He is co-author, with Aaron Kerner, of Extreme . Cinema: Affective Strategies in Transnational Media (2016). Gertrud Koch is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies at Freie . Universita¨t Berlin, and Visiting Professor at Brown University in the . USA. Work translated into English includes Siegfried Kracauer: An . Introduction (2020) and Breaking Out, Breaking Bad, Breaking Even . (2017). She is on the board of numerous German and international Screen 61:2 Summer 2020 Á Contributors 339 doi:10.1093/screen/hjaa030 . journals, such as October, Constellation, Philosophy & Social Criticism . and Cinema&Cie. She is preparing a book on techno-aesthetics and . animation. Hanna Kubicka has an MSt in Film Aesthetics from the University of . Oxford and is currently a PhD candidate in Film and Television at . Glasgow University. Her work has been published in journals such as . Projections, Film-Philosophy and the Journal of Popular Film and . Television. Her research interests include emotional engagement and . identification with fictional characters, cognitive psychology and . Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/61/2/339/5860190 by guest on 23 September 2021 . audience research. Jie Li is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard . University. She is author of Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life . (2014) and Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era . (forthcoming). Her new book projects are on film exhibition and . reception, and radios and loudspeakers in socialist China. Gabrielle McNally is Assistant Professor of Digital Cinema in the . School of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University. As a . practising artist she works in experimental autobiographical and . essayistic nonfiction. Her videos have been screened internationally in . film festivals and galleries. Her scholarly work currently explores the . notions of voice, improvisation, memory, performance, autobiography . and gender as they relate to nonfiction. Geoffrey Maguire is Lecturer in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, . University of Cambridge. He specializes in contemporary Latin . American culture, with particular interest in queer representation, cultural . memory and cinematic embodiment. His publications include The . Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary . Argentine Culture (2017) and New Visions of Adolescence in . Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2018). Daniel Morgan is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at . the University of Chicago. He is author of Late Godard and the . Possibilities of Cinema (2013) and The Lure of the Image: Epistemic . Fantasies of the Moving Camera (2021), as well as numerous articles on . film theory, film aesthetics, nonfiction film, animation and a variety of . other topics. Adam O’Brien is Lecturer in Film at the University Reading. He is . author of a number of articles about film form and the material . environment, most recently in the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, and . has written two books of ecocritical film study: Transactions with the . World (2016) and Film and the Natural Environment (2018). 340 Screen 61:2 Summer 2020 Á Contributors . Eleni Palis is Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the . University of Tennessee. She earned her PhD at the University of . Pennsylvania in English, concentrating on Cinema and Media Studies. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, [in]Transition: Journal of . Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies and Oxford . Bibliographies Online. Jordan Schonig is Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the . Department of English at Michigan State University. He is interested in . the intersections between philosophical aesthetics, phenomenology and . Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/61/2/339/5860190 by guest on 23 September 2021 . film studies, and has been published in Synoptique, Discourse, New . Review of Film and Television Studies and New Media & Society. He is . currently working on a book manuscript on the aesthetics of cinematic . motion. Antonio Somaini is Professor in Film, Media and Visual Culture Theory . at the Universite´ Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. He is author of, among . others, Cultura visuale (with Andrea Pinotti, 2016) and Ejzenstejn . (2011). He is editor of English, French and Italian editions of writings by . Benjamin, Eisenstein, Moholy-Nagy and Vertov, and curator of an . exhibition entitled Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities (2020). Stefanie Van de Peer is Lecturer in Film and Media at Queen Margaret . University in Edinburgh. She specializes in the history of documentary . and animation, specifically women’s world cinema. Her most recent . books are Animation in the Middle East (2017), Negotiating Dissidence: . The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (2017) and Women in . African Cinema (2019). 341 Screen 61:2 Summer 2020 Á Contributors.