ABSTRACT
MARIA ANGEL lectures in writing and textual studies at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. She is currently completing a dissertation on visual, forensic and pathological metaphors in literary criticism and philosophy…TONY BENNETT teaches at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and was the founding director of the Centre for Cultural Policy…PHILIP BELL teaches in the School of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia…ABIGAIL BRAY teaches at Murdoch University. She has published on media representations of eating disorders and is completing a doctoral thesis on corporeal feminism…STEVE CHIBNALL is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and is currently researching readers and collectors of genre fiction…ANN CURTHOYS is Professor of History at the Australian National University, Canberra…DENISE CUTHBERT teaches literature, women’s studies and cultural studies at Monash University. She has published on early modern literature and culture, including a monograph on Andrew Marvell (Oxford University Press, 1993). In collaboration with Michele Grossman, she is researching a book on contested representations of indigeneity within contemporary Australian culture…JULIE DREW teaches English at the University of South Florida where she specializes in Rhetoric and Composition and Cultural Studies…RITA FELSKI taught at Murdoch University from 1987 to 1993 and is currently Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications include Beyond Feminist Aesthetics and The Gender of Modernity, both published by Harvard University Press…RACHEL FENSHAM lectures in drama and theatre studies at Monash University. Her research interests include feminist and performance theory in relation to popular culture and performance practices…MICHELE GROSSMAN is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Language Studies at Victoria University of Technology. From 1992 to 1994 she was co-editor (with Barbara Brook) of the Australian Women’s Book Review, and her work on women’s writing and cultural theory has appeared in Arena, Minnesota Review and The Age Monthly Review. In collaboration with Denise Cuthbert she is researching a book on contested representations of indigeneity within contemporary Australian culture…BARRY HOWELL is in the graduate program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania…LESLEY JOHNSON is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published widely in the fields of cultural studies and gender studies. Her books include The Unseen Voice: A Study of Early Australian Radio and The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up…SUVENDRINI PERERA, who teaches in the School of English at La Trobe University, is author of Reaches of Empire (Columbia University Press, 1991) and editor of Asian and Pacific Inscriptions: Identities/Ethnicities/Nationalities (Hyland House, 1995). She is currently writing
Asia for the Australians: ‘Asia’ and the Reorganization of Australian National Desires… KEN RUTHVEN is a Professor in the English Department of the University of Melbourne, Australia…ZOË SOFIA (SOFOULIS) is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. She has published Whose Second Self? (Deakin University Press) on gender and irrationality in computer culture, and is currently working with Virginia Barratt on a study of women electronic artists…JOHN O.THOMPSON has taught Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool and served as Course Tutor on the British Film Institute/ Birbeck College, University of London’s MA in Cinema and Television Studies… JASON TOYNBEE teaches Communication Studies at Coventry University, Coventry, UK…. ANDREA WITCOMB teaches in the School of Humanities at Central Queensland University
