Who's Who in Research: Cultural Studies

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. 'Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,' noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those scholars who don’t work directly with international colleagues, staying up-to-date and relevant requires keeping up with international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it’s not always easy to keep track of who’s who – or what kind of research they’re conducting. That’s where Intellect’s new series comes in. A set of worldwide guides to leading academics – and their work – across the arts and humanities, Who’s Who in Research features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the areas of cultural studies, film studies, media studies, performing arts and visual arts.
 
Who's Who in Research: Visual Arts includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, biography, and current research interests, as well as bibliographic information and a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes in the Who’s Who in Research series will be updated each year, providing the most current information on the foremost thinkers in academia and making them an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, academic libraries and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Release date: Jan 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783201617

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Farhad Abbasi

Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Head of Technology Foresight and Evaluation Division, No. 27 Forsat St, Engelab Ave., Teheran, Iran

Keywords innovation systems, technology management, human capital, benchmarking in innovation, commercialization, R&D productivity measurement, technology foresight

Farhad Abbasi is a research fellow and Head of Technology Foresight and Evaluation Division, the Iranian Research Organizations for Science and Technology.

Indigenous technological capability and its impact on technological development process: the case of Iranian industrial firms, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.2, 145–168.

Use of virtual index for measuring efficiency of innovation systems: A cross-country study, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 9.3, 195–212.

Samer Abboud

Arcadia University, Department of History and International Studies, 450 South Easton Road, Glenside, PA, 19038, United States of America

Keywords political economy, migration, mobility, citizenship, Syria, Arab studies, Islamic studies

Dr Abboud began teaching at Arcadia in Autumn 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in 2007 where he conducted research on the political economy of marketization in Syria. In his research and teaching, he explores questions of political economy, migration/mobility, and citizenship, particularly within the context of the non-Western world. Dr Abboud has published in Arab Studies Quarterly, New Political Science, and Review of Middle East Studies, as well as in several edited collections. He has also written on Syria’s political economy, publishing two monographs on Syrian Trade Policy and Marketization in Syria. Dr Abboud also serves as a Fellow at the Center for Syrian Studies in St. Andrew’s, Scotland, and as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies.

Failures (and successes?) of neoliberal economic policy in Iraq, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.3, 425–442.

Azley Abd Razak

University of the West of England, Operations and Information Management School, Bristol Business School, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, United Kingdom

Keywords Malaysia, triple helix, innovation networks, entrepreneurship

Azley Abd Razak is Research and Teaching Associate in the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England. His research interests include the Triple Helix model of innovation in developing countries.

The role of universities in the evolution of the Triple Helix culture of innovation network: The case of Malaysia, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 6.3, 211–226.

Laroussi Ben Abdallah

University of Gafsa, Institut Supérieur d’Administration des Entreprises, Campus Universitaire Sidi Ahmed Zarroug 2112, Gafsa, Tunisia

Keywords spin off, firm source, firm beneficiary

Laroussi Ben Abdallah is a lecturer of management and Head of Department of Sciences Management and Finance at the Institute of Business Administration, at the University of Gafsa. His research is essentially focused on organizational structure and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

A la recherche d’un essaimage entreprise publique minière Tunisienne, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 7.2, 169–185.

Sofia Aboim

University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, Av. Professor Aníbal Bettencourt, 9, Lisbon, 1600–189, Portugal

Keywords modernization, gender relations, gender gap, family life, cross-national comparison

Sofia Aboim is a Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences.

Family and gender values in contemporary Europe: The attitudinal gender gap from a cross-national perspective, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 9.1, 33–58.

Nathan Abrams

Bangor University, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, United Kingdom

Keywords Jewishness, Jews, film, United Kingdom

Dr Nathan Abrams is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University. His research explores the representation of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in contemporary cinema since 1990, with a particular emphasis on the United States. His most recent books are Studying Film (2nd ed., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) and The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (London: IB Tauris, forthcoming in 2011).

Hidden: Jewish Film in the United Kingdom, past and present, Journal of European Popular Culture, 1.1, 53–68.

Pedro Abrantes

ISCTE., Av. das Forças Armadas, Lisbon, 1649–026, Portugal

Keywords youth, adulthood, transitions, pathways

Pedro Abrantes is a Sociological Researcher with the Sociological Studies Research Centre, ISCTE.

Moving into adulthood in a southern European country: transitions in Portugal, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 3.3, 191–.

On full-time primary schools: Opportunities, challengesand good practices, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 10.1, 59–71.

Dinesh Abrol

National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Pusa Gate, K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, 110 012, India

Keywords S&T, rural poor, rural enterprise development, cooperation, partnership

Dr Dinesh Abrol is a research scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS).

Embedding technology in community-based production systems through People's Technology Initiatives: Lessons from the Indian experience, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 4.1, 3–20.

Seifudein Adem

Binghamton University, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies, PO Box 6000, LNG-100 Binghamton, NY, 13902, United States of America

Keywords Japan, Iraq, foreign policy, Iraq War

Seifudein Adem, Associate Research Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton. He is also author of Hegemony and Discourse: New perspectives in International Relations.

Japan and the Iraq War: cultural and theoretical perspectives, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.2, 209–224.

John Olatunji Adeoti

NISER- Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Economic and Tech Development Dept., Oyo Road, P.M.B, 5 UIPO, Ibadan, Nigeria

Keywords environmental policy, industry, technology, Nigeria

John Olatunji Adeoti has researched extensively on the role of science and technology in economic development, industrial development and planning issues in Sub-Saharan Africa; and is the author of the book, Technology and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry published in 2002 by Ashgate Publishing Limited, United Kingdom. In addition, he has published in reputable international journals on the role of technology in economic development and environmentally sustainable industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been involved in research, consultancy and training activities since 1989. He participated in several international fora on economic development; industrialization; environmentally sustainable development; science, technology and innovation (STI) policy design, analysis and management.

Environmental policy and industrial response in Nigeria, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 7.2, 119–136.

Goffredo Adinolfi

ISCTE, Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia – CIES, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Lisbon, 1649–026, Portugal

Keywords ministerial elites, Italy, fascism, political elites, grand council, authoritarianism

Goffredo Adinolfi is a contemporary history doctoral candidate at the State University of Milan, Italy, and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Science. His thesis is a study of the propaganda used by Salazar’s New State. At the University of Lisbon he is participating in the project on southern European authoritarian elites.

Fascist Era Elites (2). The Fascist ministerial elite, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 3.2, 91–114.

The Fascist elites, government and the Grand Council, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 8.1, 7–30.

German Aginagalde

Mondragon University, Deptartment of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship, Larraña 16, Apdo 58, Oñati, 20560, Spain

Keywords cooperative, tax law, Mondragon, Basque Country, autonomous Basque community

German Aginagalde has taught courses on tax and accounting issues at the Faculty of Business Science (ETEO), Mondragon University for over 20 years. He is writing his doctoral thesis on the impact of Mondragon cooperatives on the development of social capital in the Alto Deba region.

Specific tax issues of the cooperatives in the Mondragon group, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.1, 69–76.

Amaia Agirre

Mondragon University, Deptartment of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship, Larraña 16, Apdo 58, Oñati, 20560, Spain

Keywords principal components analysis, self-management, cooperative, leadership

Amaia Agirre is a specialist in cooperative management models, strategy and organizational structure. She has been a member of the Faculty of Business Science (ETEO) at Mondragon University, since 1995. She teaches management, economics, and organizational structure. Amaia Agirre has contributed in several research projects as well as applied co-operative development projects and training courses in the Basque Country, Spain and several Latin American countries.

The cohesive power of new management alternatives: principal components of the Irizar model, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.1, 13–26.

Carmen González De Aguilar

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Economía Aplicada IV, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Keywords party finance, party funding reform, political parties, political rent creation, state subsidies, Spain

Carmen González de Aguilar has a Ph.D. in Law and teaches political economy at Universidad Complutense of Madrid economic regulation at the University of Anahuac (Mexico). She has published about taxation in the monograph series of the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies and in journals like the Spanish Derecho Financiero y Hacienda Pública and the Portuguese.

Reforming party finance in Spain, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 24.1, 3–16.

Johan Åhr

Hofstra University, History, Hempstead, New York, NY 11549–1600, United States of America

Keywords Der Bevölkerung, Reichstag/Bundestag, gardening, nation and identity, Willy Lange

Assistant Professor Johan Åhr is the author of ‘Memory and Mourning in Berlin: On Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust-Mahnmal (2005)’, Modern Judaism, 28 (2008), pp. 283–305. He is currently writing a monograph on Primo Levi and the problem of genocide: see ‘On Primo Levi, Richard Serra, and the Concept of History’, Journal of the Historical Society, 9 (2009), pp. 161–89.

Hans Haacke versus the myth of Volk, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 3.1, 51–68.

Farid Aitsiselmi

London Metropolitan University, Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education, 84 Moorgate, London, EC2M 6SQ, United Kingdom

Keywords sociolinguistics, Algeria, Algerian migrants in France, translation into French

Farid Aitdidelemi is Principal Lecturer in Applied Translation at London Metropolitan University. Farid started his career as an EFL and translation tutor in Algeria and then worked as a lecturer at the University of York. He went on to work at Bradford University where he was Coordinator of French, and Director of the MA in European Languages and European Studies. As Subject Leader for Applied Linguistics he was involved in major course revisions in the Department of Languages and European Studies. His research interests include intercultural issues related to language and identity with a specific interest in ethnic minority migrants. He has edited a volume entitled Black Blanc Beur: language and identity in France and has published a number of articles on the topic.

Langue et identité beur dans Hexagone, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 1.1, 41–.

Book Reviews, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 12.2&3, 505–.

Amir Naser Akhavan

Amirkabir University of Technology, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Hafiz Avenue, Tehran, Iran

Keywords indigenous, technological capability, Iran

Amir Naser Akhavan is an Assistant Professor at the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Indigenous technological capability and its impact on technological development process: the case of Iranian industrial firms, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.2, 145–168.

Shameem Akhter

Western Oregon University, 10020 SW 125th Avenue, #104, Tel: [phone], Beaverton, OR 97008 United States of America

Keywords database systems, data warehousing, decision support, information systems

Ms. Shameem Akhter is a Graduate Student of Management and Information Systems (MIS) at Western Oregon University.

Incorporating sustainability into information technology management, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 9.2, 95–111.

Ali Jamal al-Kandari

Gulf University for Science and Technology, College of Arts and Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait

Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti TV, independent media, government, satellite television

Ali Jamal al-Kandari (Ph.D., the University of Southern Mississippi) is an assistant professor of mass communication at Gulf University for Science & Technology. His research interests include political communication, the internet and public relations.

The influence of American television programs on university students in Kuwait: a synthesis, European Journal of American Culture, 28.1, 57–74.

Rafa al-Nasiri

P.O. Box 941840, Amman, 11194, Jordan

Keywords Iraqi art, modern art, Iraqi artists, diaspora

Rafa al-Nasiri is a renowned Iraqi artist who was educated in Iraq, Europe and China, and became the Chair of the Department of Graphic Art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in the 1970s. Besides his paintings and graphic art, he is known for the Art Books he has produced to celebrate classical and modern poets, including Al-Mutanabbi and Mahmoud Darwish. He was a member of the ‘New Vision’ group and his work has been included in international exhibitions, including ‘Word into Art’ (British Museum) and the touring exhibition ‘Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art’. He has won several prestigious prizes in Europe and the Middle East for his art. He has lived in Bahrain and Paris and is presently living in Amman.

Survival through art and the art of survival, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3.3, 259–275.

Ahmed al-Rawi

Sohar University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, P.O. Box 44, Sohar, 311, Oman

Keywords film, video games, Iraqi stereotypes, American propaganda, Gulf War

Ahmed Al-Rawi is an Iraqi assistant professor who has taught Communication, English Literature and Journalism and is currently teaching English Language at Majan University College in Oman. He is studying for his second Ph.D. in Media and Mass Communication from Leicester University and has had papers published in Arab Studies Quarterly, John Buchan Journal, and written chapters of books such as ‘Islam & the East in John Buchan’s Novels’ in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the 39 Steps (London, Pickering & Chatto Publishers).

Iraqi stereotypes in American culture: the case of video games and films, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.2, 225–249.

Valley of the Wolves as representative of Turkish popular attitudes towards Iraq, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3.1, 75–84.

Nabil Al-Tikriti

University of Mary Washington, Department of History, 1301 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA, 22401, United States of America

Keywords Iraq, Ottomans history, state formation, national identity

Nabil Al-Tikriti, Associate Professor of History, earned a Ph.D. (2004) in Ottoman history from the University of Chicago, an MIA (1990) from Columbia University and a BSFS (1988) in Arab studies from Georgetown University. From 1992–2003, Dr Al-Tikriti was a context and liaison officer, administrator and logistician for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. His duties included jointly conducting an exploratory mission determining potential Médecins Sans Frontières activity in Iraq; negotiating with community and clan leaders concerning team security and staff contracts; serving as liaison with United Nations, non-governmental organizations and local government personnel; and controlling personnel issues for more than 200 local staff in a war zone. Areas of expertise include: Conflict Zones and Relief Work, Election Supervision, Iraq, Modern Middle East, Ottoman History and Iraqi Higher Education.

Was there an Iraq before there was an Iraq?, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3.2, 133–142.

Sean Albiez

Southampton Solent University, Popular Music

Keywords electronic popular music, German and French electronic music, Kraftwerk, krautrock, techno, electro, electronic dance music history, idm, glitch, punk, post-punk, post-rock, electronica, experimental music, popular music, identity

Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has lectured in popular music studies, music technology and media and cultural studies since 1991, and has been involved in electronic music making since the mid-1980s. He researches and writes on a range of subjects in the broad field of electronic popular music, and produces music as obe:lus.

Post-soul futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit techno, European Journal of American Culture, 24.2, 131–152.

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru

Keywords love, reclamation, rhetoric, pain, trauma

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is Reader in English and American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Bucharest (2000) and a Ph.D. in postcolonial literature from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (2007). Her research areas are African American Studies, postcolonialism, postcommunism, and gender studies. Her recent publications include Identity Performance in Contemporary Non-WASP American Fiction, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2008; Women’s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, co-edited with Prof Madalina Nicolaescu and Helen Smith, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press (vol. 1, Rewriting Histories, 2005; vol. 2, Bodies and Representations, 2006); ‘Performance, Performativity and Nomadism in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain’, Comparative Literature Studies, 45.1, 2008, pp. 23–39.

Love as reclamation in Toni Morrison’s African American rhetoric, European Journal of American Culture, 27.3, 191–205.

Ali Ali

University of East London, School of Law and Social Sciences, Docklands Campus, University Way, London E16 2RD, UK

Keywords refugees, statecraft, militias, sectarianism, Mandaeans

Ali is a doctoral candidate at the University of East London, UK. He completed fieldwork in Damascus, Syria, for his thesis which is an oral history project examining choice and constraint in Iraqis’ migration decisions in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion. His current research interests are survival and coping strategies in situations of social and political crisis. He has worked as a consultant for UNHCR Syria on Iraqi refugee issues, and holds degrees from Durham University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Displacement and statecraft in Iraq: Recent trends, older roots, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 5.2, 231–245.

Kristofer Allerfeldt

University of Exeter, History, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom

Keywords American history, Paris Peace Conference 1919, Woodrow Wilson, immigration, Great War

Kristofer Allerfeldt teaches modern American history at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. He has published works on American in the Progressive Era including Beyond the Huddled Masses (2006) and Race, Radicalism, Religion and Restriction (2002). He is currently working on a study of the influence of the Decline and Fall of Rome on American policy in the early twentieth century.

Rejecting the United States of the World: The consequences of Woodrow Wilson's new diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act, European Journal of American Culture, 26.3, 145–165.

Mark Allinson

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Keywords thriller, auteur, authorship, Bajo Ulloa

Mark Allinson is Professor of Spanish at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests are in modern and contemporary Spanish culture, particularly cinema, drama and subcultures. He has published three books, A Spanish Labyrinth: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (London & NY, 2001), ¡Te toca! A New Communicative Spanish Course (London, 2002), and Spanish Cinema: A Student Guide (co-authored with Barry Jordan). Other publications include chapters on Spanish youth cultures and punk, articles on films of Juanma Bajo Ulloa and Juan Antonio Bardem, and another on the use of simulations in the language classroom. His book on Almodóvar has been updated and translated into Spanish and is also available as an e-book.

Is the auteur dead? The case of Juanma Bajo Ulloa, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 15.3, 143–152.

Patricia Allmer

Manchester Metropolitan University, MIRIAD, Righton Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BG, United Kingdom

Keywords art history, women artists, surrealism, art theory

Dr Patricia Allmer is Senior Research Fellow in Art History & Theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has recently received a 2010 Philip Leverhulme prize for her outstanding achievements in art history. She was curator of the award-winning Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism (Manchester Art Gallery, 28 September 2009 to 11 January 2010), is author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting (Manchester University Press, 2009) and co-editor of a number of books and special journal issues on surrealism and art theory. She is currently writing a book entitled Lee Miller – Beyond Frontiers (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

RE/ Searching Angry Women, European Journal of American Culture, 30.2, 113–123.

Re/reading RE/ Search, European Journal of American Culture, 30.2, 81–82.

Saif AlMaamari

Sultan Qaboos University, Faculty of Education, , Al-Koud, P.C. 123, Sultanate of Oman, P. O. Box 32

Keywords citizenship education, citizenship education in Arab countries, Arab education, Pedagogy of CE, civic education,

Saif Nasser Ali AlMaamari is an assistant professor at Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, Sultan Qaboos University. He was awarded Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow in 2009. His main interest is citizenship education in general and citizenship education in teacher education in particular. He has published several articles in Arabic about citizenship education in Sultanate of Oman. In addition, he has until now published two books in the field of citizenship education: Citizenship Education: International Experiences and Practices in Preparing a 'Good Citizen' (2006) and Citizenship: An Omani Perspective (2008). He is currently providing the Ministry of Education in Oman with some consultations to promote citizenship education in the curriculum and to train teachers to teach citizenship education. He has recently been involved in a long-term project to study citizenship education in the Arab countries under sponsorship of Carnegie Middle East Center.

The provision of citizenship education in Arab contexts, Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 7.1, 35–49.

María Martín de Almagro

Universite Libre de Bruxelles, GEM School Fellow, Institut d’Etudes Europeennes, 17, rue Lanfray, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Keywords EU, health, policy-making, bureaucracy, autonomous community

María Martín de Almagro is currently completing her Ph.D. on globalization, the European Union and multilateralism at the Institut d’Etudes Europeennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Being Spain in Brussels: Policy bureaucracy, agenda setting and negotiation in the EU policy process, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 24.2, 71–89.

Mariza Almeida

Augusto Motta University Center – UNISUAM, Rua Paris, 72, Bonsucesso, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 21041–020, Brazil

Keywords triple helix, entrepreneurial university, innovation, Brazil

Mariza Almeida holds a Ph.D. in Production Engineering and is currently a Adjunct Professor on the master’s course in Local Development at the AugustoMotta University Center – UNISUAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the author of numerous articles on incubators, entrepreneurship, local development, triple helix of university–industry–government relationship and actor-network theory.

Innovation and entrepreneurship in Brazilian universities, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 7.1, 39–58.

Overcoming institutional shortcomings for academic spin-off policies in Brazil, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 9.3, 175–193.

Rita Almeida de Carvalho

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Institute for Contemporary History, Av. de Berna 26C, Lisboa, 1069–061, Portugal

Keywords Salazarism, dictatorships, cabinet, political decision-making, Portugal

Rita Almeida de Carvalho is a doctoral candidate at the New University of Lisbon’s department of history, where she is concluding her thesis on the relations between Portugal and the Vatican during the 1940s.

Political decision-making in the Portuguese New State (1933–39): The dictator, the council of ministers and the inner-circle, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 8.1, 85–101.

Josefina Bueno Alonso

Alicante University, Filologias Integradas, Campus de San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, 3080, Spain

Keywords African literature, francophone literature, Maghrebian women writers, African literature in Spanish, feminism, Islam

Josefina Bueno Alonso is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Alicante University where she teaches French literature and is particularly interested in gender issues. Over the last few years, she has lectured on the literature and culture of French speaking countries and her main focus of research is on francophone women writers, especially in the Maghreb. Her most recent publications, which analyse postcolonial and gendered discourse in a francophone context, include Escritoras magrebíes de expresión francesa (Francofonía, 1996), La re-presentación de la mujer oriental (Belleza escrita en femenino, 1999), Identidades enfrentadas: Mujer y Maternidad en el Magreb (2004), and Femme, Identité, Écriture (Thélème, 2004). She is the head researcher of a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation titled 'African Literature in Spanish since 90s'.

L'essai africain au féminin: parcours thématique, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 9.1, 61–78.

Salih J. Altoma

Keywords Iraqi art, women writers, Iraqi writers, Nuha al-Radi

Salih J. Altoma is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature and has been affiliated with Indiana University since 1964. He has served as Director of Middle Eastern Studies (1986–91) and Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department (1985–91). His publications include several books, bibliographical surveys and numerous articles in Arabic and English, which deal with Arabic language and literature. He recently edited the 2000th volume of The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, which was dedicated to the topic of Arabic-Western literary relations. His latest two books are Fi al- 'alaqat al-adabiyyah bayn al-'arab wa al-gharb/On Arabic-Western Literary Relations, Jeddah's Literary Club (2003) and Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: A Companion (London: aqi, 2005).

Lami'ah Abbas Amarah: elegiac reflections on the 1991 Gulf War, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 1.3, 421–430.

Translating contemporary Iraq's Arabic literature: ten years of Banipal's record 1998–2008, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3.3, 307–319.

On American readings of Nuha al-Radi's Baghdad Diaries, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 4.1&2, 7–24.

Rafael Altuna

Mondragon University, Deptartment of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship, Larraña 16, Apdo 58, 20560 Oñati, Spain

Keywords Mondragon, cooperative enterprise, history

Rafael Altuna has been a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Business Science (ETEO), Mondragon University for over fifteen years. He has taught general sociology, organizational sociology and cooperative thought in undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as engaged in technical assistance and training projects on cooperative enterprise in Spain and several Latin American Countries. He is carrying out his doctoral thesis on the implications and impact of Mondragon’s cooperative management model.

Mondragon: notes on history, scope and structure, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 8.1, 3–12.

Hélder Alves

Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, ISCTE-IUL, Av das Forças Armadas, 1649–026 Lisbon, Portugal

Keywords reactions to victims, descriptive social norms, injunctive social norms, perverse norms, innocence of the victim

Hélder Alves has a doctorate in social and organisational psychology. His current research themes are reactions to victims, the belief in a just world and social norms.

A first approach to perceptions of social norms regarding reactions towards innocent and non-innocent victims, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 8.2, 133–145.

Lígia Amâncio

Keywords gender, science, career, discriminated elite

Ligia Amancio is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE and Head Researcher on Gender and Feminist Studies at the Centro de Investigacao e Intervencao Social (CIS/ISCTE).

Gender and science in Portugal, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 1.3, 185–.

P.B. Anand

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, United Kingdom

Keywords water supply, entitlements, river disputes, South India, Chennai

Dr P. B. Anand is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford.

The political economy of water scarcity and issues of inequality, entitlements and identities: A tale of two cases from southern India, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 3.2, 115–132.

Water, sanitation and sustainability: Introduction to the special issue, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 5.3, 191–196.

Is the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for water and sanitation on track? ‘Target 10’ revisited, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 5.3, 197–208.

Pilar Ortuño Anaya

Keywords EEC, Franco, European Parliament, Socialists, opposition

Pilar Ortuno Anaya is research assistant at the Canada Blanch Centre, London School of Economics. She is the author of The International Dimension of the Spanish Transition to Democracy: European Socialists Parties and Trade Unions 1959–1977 (Palgarve, 2001). She is currently working on the US influence on the Spanish process of democratization.

The EEC, the Franco regime, and the Socialist group in the European Parliament, 1962–77, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 14.1, 26–39.

Katarzyna Ancuta

Assumption University, Graduate School of English, Ramkhamhaeng Rd. Soi 24, Hua Mak, Bangkapi, Bangkok, 10240, Thailand

Keywords gothic, popular fiction, comics, graphic novel, multimedia, performance art

Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of English at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural manifestations of the Gothic, particularly in such areas as popular fiction, comics and graphic novels, multimedia and performance art, film and video, theatre, music and dance, fashion, and alternative lifestyles. Most of her publications are concerned with the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic and Horror, and recently with (South)-East Asian (particularly Thai) cinema and supernatural anthropology. She is currently working on a book on Asian Gothic, and a multimedia project on Bangkok Gothic. She is also involved in a number of film-related projects in South-East Asia, coordinating Asian Cultural Studies Association based in Bangkok and editing the Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, published by Assumption University Press.

Global spectrologies: Contemporary Thai horror films and the globalization of the supernatural, Horror Studies, 2.1, 131–144.

Maggie Andrews

University of Worcester, Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts, Worcester WR2 6AJ, St Johns Campus, Henwick Grove, UK

Keywords television, remembrance, broadcasting, celebrity, personalization

Dr Maggie Andrews is a Cultural Historian and Associate Head of the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Worcester. Her work explores the relationship between popular culture, domesticity and femininity and she is the author of The Acceptable Face of Feminism (Lawrence and Wishart 1997) and Domesticating the Airwaves (Cassell forthcoming), co-editor with Mary Talbot of All the World and Her Husband (Cassell 2000) and editor with Charlie Bagot-Jewitt and Nigel Hunt of Lest We Forget: Remembrance and Commemoration (History Press 2011) and a range of other articles. She was one of the convenors of the seminar series on Remembrance, Commemoration and Memorials (2008–10) at the National Memorial Arboretum.

Introduction: National memory and war, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4.3, 283–288.

Mediating remembrance: Personalization and celebrity in television's domestic remembrance, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4.3, 357–370.

Frédéric Angleviel

University of New Caledonia, BP R4 Noumea 98851, New Caledonia

Keywords New Caledonia, literature, history, convict, hagiography

Frédéric Angleviel is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of New Caledonia. His research focuses on the perception of Christianity in New Caledonia, identity issues and settlement patterns and contemporary history and epistemology. He has edited five series of essays and ‘Franconesia’, a special issue of the Journal of Pacific Studies. He has created several book series such as 101 mots pour comprendre (Editions Île de lumière) and Fac-similés océaniens (L’Harmattan). In 2004, he created the yearly magazine Annales d’Histoire Calédonienne (Les Indes Savantes) and in 2005, he launched the collection entitled Portes Océanes (L’Harmattan) with a view to translating major writers in French, English and Italian.

Historical colonial literature and New Caledonia, 1853–1945 or how a settlement colony generates hagiographic writings, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 8.3, 289–304.

Trois millénaires de migrations et de métissages en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Réalité biologique et déficit culturel, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 11.4, 523–537.

Francis Unimna Angrey

Keywords francophone literature, linguistics

Francis Unimna Angrey is Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Calabar, with an extensive knowledge in francophone literature.

Evolution of the Female Character in the Early Novels of Mohammed Dib, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 3.1, 42–51.

La Créolisation du Français et L'impéritif d'une Identité Culturelle Antillaise dans les Romans de Maryse Condé, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 3.1, 52–58.

Nerea Arruti

University of Aberdeen, School of Language & Literature, Taylor Building A42, Aberdeen, AB24 3UB, United Kingdom

Keywords Bilbao, Guggenheim effect, Ninewells, Deyan Sudjic, Basque cultural mapaura

Nerea Arruti is lecturer in Hispanic Studies at The University of Aberdeen. She has published on Latin American literature, photography and cultural memory. Her research interests also include Basque culture.

Introduction: The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum six years on, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 16.3, 141–144.

Reflecting Basqueness: Bilbao from mausoleum to museum, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 16.3, 167–176.

Andrew Asibong

Birkbeck University of London, Department of European Cultures and Languages, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD, United Kingdom

Keywords kinship, community, fantasy, stigma, normality, psychosocial metamorphosis, reconfiguration

Andrew Asibong’s research interests lie in recent French (and other francophone) writing, theatre, cinema, and critical theory, especially in the racial, sexual, and more broadly ethico-political dimensions of ‘fantastical’ representation and thought. He teaches at Birkbeck, University of London, convening undergraduate modules on the contemporary French novel and modes of kinship in various forms of French cultural production, as well as postgraduate options on ‘The French Fantastic’ and ‘Representations of Race and Racism’. He is the author of François Ozon (MUP, 2008), and has written articles on Marie Chauvet and Marie Darrieussecq (in French Cultural Studies, June 2003), Marie NDiaye (in Transmissions, eds. I. McNeill and B. Stephens, Peter Lang, 2007) and Catherine Deneuve (in From Perversion to Purity, eds. L. Downing and S. Harris, MUP, 2007).

Travel sickness: Marie NDiaye, Hervé Guibert and the liquidation of the White Fantasy-Subject, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 12.1, 109–125.

Margaret Atack

University of Leeds, Department of French, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

Keywords France, Vichy, war in literature and film, remorse, guilt

Margaret Atack is Professor of French and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for research at the University of Leeds. She has written extensively on twentieth-century French literature and culture, particularly representations of the Occupation, Second World War, women's writing, May '68 and detective fiction.

Sins, crimes and guilty passions in France’s stories of war and occupation, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 1.1, 79–90.

Yanoula Athanassakis

University of California, Department of English, 3431 South Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106–3170, USA

Keywords ethnic, somatic, globalization, visuality, materiality

Yanoula Athanassakis received her Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara's Department of English. Currently the College of Creative Studies Postdoctoral Literature Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, she is working on her monograph, entitled, 'Global Corporealities: Immigration and the Body in Contemporary U.S. Narratives.' In her work she explores the connections between somaticism, transnational American literature, immigration, and globalization. She is also the Associate Managing Editor for Special Forums for the Journal of Transnational American Studies, or JTAS, an online publication co-sponsored by Stanford and UC Santa Barbara.

'The American girl I had once been': Psychosomatic trauma and history in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, European Journal of American Culture, 30.3, 217–230.

Ian Atherton

Keele University, History Department, ST5 5BG, UK

Keywords battlefield, commemoration, battlefield grave sites, burial rituals, chantry

Dr Ian Atherton is Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University. He has published on the seventeenth-century English Civil Wars, including a study of the Royalist politician Viscount Scudamore (Ambition and Failure in Stuart England, Manchester University Press, 1999), and has co-edited (with Ivor Carr) some of the papers of the Parliamentarian general Sir William Brereton, The Civil War in Staffordshire in the Spring of 1646 (Staffordshire Record Society, 2007). He also works on the religious history of early-modern Britain. With Dr Philip Morgan he is writing a book on battlefield commemoration in Britain from the early Middle Ages to the modern period.

The battlefield war memorial: Commemoration and the battlefield site from the Middle Ages to the modern era, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4.3, 289–304.

Patricia G. Avery

University of Minnesota

Keywords civic education, narratives, historical thinking, historical understanding, national heritage

Dr Patricia G. Avery is Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Minnesota.

Constructions of national narratives in established and emerging democracies based on student survey responses, Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 7.1, 5–34.

Nicholas Awortwi

Institute of Social Studies, P.O. Box 9776, 2502 LT, The Hague, Netherlands

Keywords waste management, governance, institutional partnerships, technology, Ghana

Nicholas Awortwi is a Lecturer in Development Management at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Technology and institutional arrangements in the delivery of public sanitation and solid waste services in Ghanaian cities, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 5.3, 221–240.

Seife Ayele

Open University, Development Policy and Practice unit, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom

Keywords knowledge transfer, Agerin, biological pest control, biopesticide, AGERI

Dr Seife Ayele is Research Fellow in the Development Policy and Practice unit within the Technology Faculty of the Open University, Milton Keynes.

Biotechnology generation, delivery and adoption: the case of Bt biopesticide in Egypt, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 4.2, 75–92.

Charlie Bagot-Jewitt

National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffs DE13 7AR

Keywords war, remembrance

Charles (Charlie) Bagot-Jewitt is Chief Executive of the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, home to the Armed Forces Memorial that was dedicated in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen in October 2007. Prior to taking his present role, Charlie enjoyed a twenty two year career in the Royal Navy, at sea and ashore, as a Logistics Officer. His last appointment, as a Commander, was in charge of Naval Operational Logistics based at the Northwood Headquarters.

Introduction: National memory and war, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4.3, 283–288.

Susan Bagwell

London Metropolitan University, Cities Institute, Ladbrooke House, 62–66 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2AD, United Kingdom

Keywords city growth, clusters, creative industries, regeneration, ethnic minority enterprise, small business policy

Susan Bagwell is Research Development Manager at London Metropolitan University. She has a background in community and economic development, project management, and research, and has experience of working in the voluntary sector, local government and as a freelance consultant as well as higher education. She has an MSc in Entrepreneurial Studies and a Diploma in Social Research and Evaluation. Her research interests include Black and Ethnic Minority SMEs, SMEs and regeneration, local economic development initiatives, urban policy and regeneration, project management and funding strategies, evaluation practice and policy.

Creative clusters and city growth, Creative Industries Journal, 1.1, 31–46.

Tozun Bahcheli

University of Western Ontario, King's University College, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, Ontario, N6A 3N4, Canada

Keywords Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Turkey, Iran

Tozun Bahcheli is Professor of Political Science at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has written widely on Turkish foreign policy issues, Greek-Turkish relations and Cypriot politics. During 1995–96 he was Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. He is author of Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955 (Westview Press, 1990) and coeditor of De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty (Routledge, 2004).

Iraqi Kurdistan: Fending off uneasy neighbours, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 2.1, 67–82.

Hans Bak

Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of English and American Studies, Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen, Netherlands

Keywords exceptionalism, transnationalism, internationalism, methodology, pedagogy

Hans Bak is professor of American Literature and American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Response to Susan Castillo ‘Interesting Times’, European Journal of American Culture, 27.2, 151–155.

Charlotte Baker

Lancaster University, European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4YN, United Kingdom

Keywords francophone, sub-Saharan Africa, literary representation, albinism, Williams Sassine

Charlotte Baker is Lecturer in French in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. Her research interests centre on contemporary French and African francophone writing and her work is informed by recent developments in the field of postcolonial theory. Charlotte's current research explores literary representations of the figure of the black African albino in the novels of Guinean writer Williams Sassine and French writers Patrick Grainville and Didier Destremau. Her other research interests include representations of marginalized and stigmatized groups in sub-Saharan Africa, theories and representations of disability, and comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the body and identity.

Book Reviews, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 10.3, 439–.

tre albinos: the trope of albinism in Williams Sassine's Wirriyamu and Mmoire d'une peau, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 13.1, 9–22.

Raymond W. Baker

Trinity College - University of Oxford, Department of International Studies, 300 summit Street, Hartford, Connecticut, CT 6106, United States of America

Keywords Arab nationalism, Middle East, US foreign policy, globalization, Muslims

Raymond William Baker is Professor of International Politics, Trinity College, USA. He writes on the Arab and Islamic world. His most recent book is Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists (Harvard University Press). Professor Baker is past president of International Association of Middle East Studies and a member of the executive board of the World Congress of Middle East Studies.

The Islamist imaginary, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 1.1, 7–26.

Degrading democracy: Iraq, empire, and struggles for freedom in the Arab Islamic world, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 1.3, 367–396.

Dallas J. Baker

Griffith University and Southern Cross University, 13 Sky Place, Bellingen, New South Wales, 2454, Australia

Keywords creative writing, Practice-Led Research, queer theory, performativity, bricolage, subjectivity

Dallas J. Baker is in the final year of a doctoral candidature at Griffith University and an Associate Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University. He has an Honours degree in Media Studies and a Masters in Writing. Under the nom de plume Dallas Angguish, he is a writer of poetry and short fiction with work published in the journals TEXT, Lodestar Quarterly, Retort Magazine, Polari Journal and in the anthologies When You're A Boy (2011), America Divine (2011), Anywhere But Here (2006), Bend, Don't Shatter (2004) and Dumped (2000 and US edition 2002). His research interests are Queer Theory and its application to subjectivity in the contexts of creative practice, Practice-Led Research and Creative Writing pedagogy.

Queering Practice-Led Research: Subjectivity, performative research and the creative arts, Creative Industries Journal, 4.1, 33–51.

Catherine Baker

University of Southhampton, Modern Languages, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton, S017 1BF, United Kingdom

Keywords military, civilian, Bosnia-Herzegovina, interpreters, gender

Catherine Baker is a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Southampton and part of the Languages at War: Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict research team, which connects Southampton, the University of Reading and the Imperial War Museum (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Her research interests involve the transformation of society, culture and language in south-east Europe during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Her monograph Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia Since 1991 is under contract with Ashgate.

‘It's not their job to soldier’: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 3.1, 137–150.

Dean Baldwin

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Keywords popular short stories, reviewers, magazines, modernism,British novel

Dean Baldwin is professor of English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he teaches short story, Shakespeare, British literature surveys, composition, and postcolonial literature. He has published books on H. E. Bates, V. S. Pritchett and Virginia Woolf, as well as two anthology textbooks, The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction and An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction. He is also co-author of The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography and editor of British Short-Fiction Writers, 1945–1980. Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950 is forthcoming from Pickering-Chatto.

The strange history of the British short story and its reviewers, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 1.2, 175–189.

Sebastian Balfour

London School of Economics & Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

Keywords historical memory, historiography, revisionism, holocaust denial

Sebastian Balfour is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies in the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published extensively on contemporary Spain. His books include Dictatorship, Workers and the City. Labour in Greater Barcelona since 1939 (OUP, 1989), The End of the Spanish Empire 1898–1923 (OUP, 1997), Deadly Embrace. Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War (OUP, 2002), and (with Alejandro Quiroga) The Reinvention of Spain. Nation and Identity since Democracy (OUP, 2007), all of which were published in editions in Spanish. He has edited two books: (with Paul Preston), Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 1999) and The Politics of Contemporary Spain (Routledge, 2005).

The concept of historical revisionism: Spain since the 1930s, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 21.3, 179–186.

Harry Ballard

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Department of Public Management, Faculty of Business, P.O. Box 652, CAPE TOWN 8000, South Africa

Keywords constructivist learning approach, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial intention, motivation to learn, venture creation

Prof. Harry Ballard is currently Head of Department, Department of Public Management for the Faculty of Business at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He holds the following degrees: BA (Unisa); B IURIS (Unisa); Honours (University of Stellenbosch); MPA (University of Stellenbosch); MA (International Relations) (University of Stellenbosch); and Ph.D. (Public and Development Management) (University of Stellenbosch).

Factors influencing academic resilience of trainees in entrepreneurial development programmes: A case from Saldanha Bay Municipal Area in South Africa, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 10.3, 217–230.

Parthasarathi Banerjee

National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), K.S. Krishnan Marg, Pusa, New Delhi, 110 012, India

Keywords industrial clusters, linkages, networking, R&D laboratories, technology transfer

Dr Parthasarathi Banerjee is from the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS). He is currently the Acting Director of NISTADS, New Delhi.

Developing regional clusters in India: The role of national laboratories, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 6.3, 193–210.

Intercity differences in university, R&D and industry interactions in biomedical sector research in India, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, 10.01, 27–44.

Enrique Banús

Universidad de Navarra, Centro de Estudios Europeos, Pamplona, E-31080, Spain

Keywords prejudice, Iberian studies, cultural mediation

Enrique Banús received his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Aachen in Germany. He is currently Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Navarre, where he teaches European Literature and Culture Studies. He is also Director of Masters in Cultural Management at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona.

En busca de la utopía: los Estudios Ibéricos, ¿puente o frontera? / In search of utopia: Iberian studies as bridge