JOAKIM NILSSON
OLIVIA POPP
DOUGLAS RASMUSSEN
Joakim Nilsson completed his Ph.D. At the University of Alberta. He previously taught at Pierce College and Simon Fraser University, and now teachers in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. His teaching and research interests focus on representations of masculinities in American literature and film, and in medieval literature. He is currently working on an article exploring the representation of the male artist as a “kept man” in post-World War Two Hollywood films.
Olivia Popp is an undergraduate student in Science, Technology, & Society and Film & Media Studies at Stanford University. With the motivation to combine theory and practice, she has also studied critical science fiction at the University of Oxford and digital media at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Her interdisciplinary interests include global identities, speculative futures, queer socialization, and sociotechnical imaginaries. She currently writes online about film and television with a particular passion for genre fiction, thriller narratives, and dark comedy.
Douglas Rasmussen is a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. The subject of his thesis was the AMC television series Breaking Bad,where he explored the intertextual aspects of the series as part of a larger criticism on neoliberal economic policies and border culture. His primary areas of study are Film Studies and American Literature, but he has also written on music, comic books, and television for various websites and journals.
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