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of Film and Video, Camera Obscura, and Triangulated Vision(s): Women in
Recent German Cinema (SUNY, 2000). She is the author of The Representation
of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (Palgrave, 2007)
and Cities and Cinema (Routledge, 2008).
Isabel Molina is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her primary areas of interest are in
transnational cultural studies, particularly in the intersections between
the production of global diasporas as they relate to the formation of
cultural identities.
Lori Reed is an independent scholar, and she has taught at the University
of Illinois, University of Rhode Island, and Southern Illinois University.
Her primary interests are in new media studies, and in social and
cultural studies of science and technology. She has published essays
in journals such as The European Journal of Cultural Studies and Critical
Studies in Media Communication. She is currently completing a book on
the history, culture, and politics surrounding defi nitions of pathological
computer use, titled High on Technology: Computer Addiction and Cultural
Regulation (Routledge, forthcoming).
Paula Saukko is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department
of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, U.K. Her research is
informed by science and technology studies and medical sociology
and has explored the use of genetic information to prevent common
diseases and the lived and political dimensions of diagnostic discourses
on eating disorders. She is the author of Doing Research in Cultural Studies:
An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches (Sage, 2003)
and The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse
(SUNY Press, 2008). Her essays have been published in, for example,
Qualitative Inquiry, Social Science & Medicine, and Critical Studies in Media
Communication.
Kristin Swenson is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication
Studies, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN.
Karen Throsby is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology,
University of Warwick, U.K. Her research interests focus on issues of
gender, and on technology and the body, with particular interest in
reproductive technologies. She is the author of When IVF Fails: Feminism,
Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (Palgrave, 2004) and has published
in journals, such as Narrative Inquiry and Men and Masculinities.