Ann-Marie Cook holds a PhD in Film from the University of East Anglia, an MA in Australian Studies from King’s College London and an MA in Film Studies from New York University. She taught film, English and general education courses for six years at University of the Pacific. She is currently an independent scholar whose research and publishing covers a diverse range of topics including cultural studies, transmedia, film history, national cinemas of Britain and Australia, literary adaptations, queer theory, celebrity, fandom, Australian politics, British politics and television studies. She is also Principal Policy and Legislation Officer at the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney General.

Luca Lo SiccoMBA, PhD, currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) where he is Professor of Fashion Marketing & Management and Associate Chair at SCAD University. Previously, Dr Lo Sicco has lived in London for more than 16 years where he was Course Director of  two MA in Fashion Business at University of the Arts London. He has a wide international experience having taught in several countries such as New Zealand, France and Italy. Before starting his academic career, Dr Lo Sicco has worked in the Fashion Industry for companies such as Gucci, Valentino, Fendi, and Carlin International Paris. His publications and articles centre on his research interests which include the evolution of luxury brand management and the development and application of teaching models to improve creativity in academic environments.

Justin Meggitt is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He is also Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. He teaches and publishes widely in a number of areas, from magic in antiquity to early-modern transcultural encounters in the Mediterranean, but has a special interest in facilitating critical, public understanding of religion, past and present, and the role that interdisciplinary approaches play in that.

John Parry is the Jeffrey Bain Scholar and Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, USA. John teaches courses on civil litigation. His scholarly work focuses on legal structures that restrain or permit the exercise of state power on individuals, with a particular emphasis on civil rights law, foreign relations and international law, and criminal justice. He practiced law for several years with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He is a former law clerk to the Hon. James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and former chair of the Supreme Court Office of the Harvard Law Review.

Jonathan Rollins received his Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, Canada. As a professor at Ryerson University, he focused his research on the intersectional entanglements of migration and diaspora studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and queer theory. He has recently accepted a job with the Canadian federal government, working as an analyst in close cooperation with global affairs.

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Cristina Santos is an Associate Professor at Brock University where she teaches in the Dept. of Communications, Popular Culture and Film. Her work focuses on sexuality and gender studies from an intersectional feminist perspective. Her interests are in exploring the construct of “monstrous women” from an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural approach as seen in literature, film, television, popular culture and mythology. She also investigates the construct of political and social deviance and trauma in life narratives as the construction of a personal and communal sense of identity that challenges official history and patriarchy. Her teaching and research is informed by feminist theory, post-colonial discourse, theory of alterity and gender and sexuality studies. Most recently, she is the author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins (2016) editor of various volumes, amongst which is Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)significance of the Hymen (2016).

Karl Spracklenhas held senior officer positions within the Leisure Studies Association, and was its Chair until 2013. He is closely involved in the International Sociological Associations’s Research Committee 13 (Leisure). He has been the Secretary of the International Society for Metal Music Studies, is currently the Editor of Metal Music Studies and was a key organiser of the British Sociological Association’s Alcohol Study Group for a number of years. His research interests include leisure theory, communicative leisure, privatization of leisure spaces, tourist spaces and tourist performativity, whiteness and masculinity, class, northernness and national identity, rugby league, whisky and real-ale tourism and various music genres (metal, folk, neo-folk and goth). He researches and writes by himself and in collaboration with a range of other people.