Editors

Katheryn Wright, Managing Editor
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2005)

Katheryn’s academic interests include biopolitics and new media, theories of modernity, and cultural geography. She is currently studying how the philosophies of the virtual, affect, and biopower engage with concepts like representation and globalization, or theories like feminism and post-colonialism. In the process of trying to integrate theory and practice, Katheryn has made several short digital video productions while continuing to work with non-digital media.

Graduate Editors

Alexis Aquino
MA Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico (1999)

Alexis Aquino is pursuing a doctoral degree in Humanities focusing on the relations between the Classical Tradition and contemporary cultural practices. Specifically, he is interested in the connections between Aristotelian literary and rhetorical theory and modern fiction, and the Ciceronian concept of humanitas as an epistemological matrix for organizing the humanistic knowledge. The National Endowment for the Humanities granted him a fellowship for the publication of his book 'Tragedy and Legal Fiction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold' in 2002. He was professor of Humanities and Classical Civilization in the University of Puerto Rico from 1999 to 2006.

Jeremy Bassetti, Webmaster
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2006)

Jeremy R. Bassetti is a doctoral student at Florida State University where he studies Europe's modern intellectual traditions. His academic interests include intellectual history, semiology, paper currency/numismatics, political theory, and empire. He currently teaches Modern Humanities for the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities and has taught a course on Cultural Imperialism.

Antonio Delgado
MA Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico (2006)

Antonio examines the problem of memory and forgetting on literature, and its relation with history and philosophy. He has particular interest in writers such as Milan Kundera and Franz Kafka. Antonio’s Master’s thesis dealt specifically with the problem of how Kundera’s novel creates a political aesthetic against ideology and media in communism and post-communism eras. In addition, Antonio studies the problematic of language in the poetry and prose of Alejandra Pizarnik.

Sarah Fryett
MA English, Florida State University (2005)

Sarah is a PhD candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities.  Her interests include feminist theory that focuses on the body, queer studies, gender studies, theories of laughter, and her latest crush, Friedrich Nietzsche.

Doris Gilliam
MA Spanish, University of Florida (1987)

Doris Gilliam is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities.  She currently serves as a Spanish Teaching Assistant in the Department of Modern Languages.  Her research interests include race, class and culture in Latin America and diversity in higher education.

Erika Johnson
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2004)

Erika’s research interests include critical television studies, critical theory, popular culture, fandom, film, new media, and our continued struggles to define ourselves as human. She is working on her dissertation tentatively titled “Confronting ‘the Human’: Prime Time Serial Television in a Time of ‘Terror’” in which she examines prime time serials, such as Battlestar Galactica and Lost, and their negotiation with our supposed radically new “post 9/11” world.

Christa Menninger
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2004)

For her MA, Christa focused on the twentieth century with an emphasis in literature. Christa’s research interests have gradually changed to film and media studies. She is currently interested at understanding where biopower, new media, mediation, and cultural studies collide with amazing and powerful results.

Alix Miller
MFA Dance, Florida State University (2001)

Alix was Assistant Professor of Dance and Director of the Dance Program at The University of Tennessee at Martin. During her tenure at UTM, she wrote the curriculum and started the first Dance Education major in the State of Tennessee. She is currently the Choreographer-in-Residence for brooks & company dance in Atlanta, GA. Her area of focus is feminist literary theory and the agency of female dancers and choreographers in the 20th-21st century.

Christy Paris
BA Humanities, University of South Florida (2004)

Christy is a second year master's student in Humanities with a concentration in gender and identity and its portrayal through the arts and literature.  Christy is a certified public school teacher and taught high school for four years in central Florida.

Johann Paultz
MA Literature, University of Louisiana - Lafayette (2002)

His major area is globalization and culture with additional concentrations in media and cultural studies. Johann has taught courses in Cultural Imperialism, Globalization and Culture, Multicultural Film, and Modernity and recently won a Kingsbury Fellowship. His dissertation addresses conspiratorial and millenarian responses to globalization among far right groups in the United States. His chapter, “End Times Narratives of the American Far Right” is being published by McFarland Press in the forthcoming book, End of Days: Popular Conceptions of the Apocalypse.

Albert Peacock
MA History and Philosophy of Science (2008)

Albert Peacock is a first year doctoral student interested in the culture of collecting and the wondrous in the Renaissance & Early Modern period texts.  He is also interest in working to bridge the gap between "science" and "humanities" in contemporary culture.  Some other areas of research Albert has worked on include: The history and philosophy of 20th century Biology, Victorian evolutionary theory, and the Historiography of science and the occult.

Melisa Reddick
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2005)

Melisa received a BA in Theater from Florida State University in 1999. Before returning to graduate school she worked extensively in theater and film production. Melisa is currently working on her PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Her current areas of interest and research include performance, film, dance, theater, music and digital media.

Tammy Whitehead
MA Classics, Florida State University (2004)

Tammy Whitehead is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Classics and has focused her doctoral studies on the influence of the Classical world on the Medieval and Renaissance periods. She is currently writing her dissertation on the Trojan Legend in Fifteenth-Century England in which she is examining the illustrations of Lydgate's Troy Book in relation to both the text and contemporary historical events.

Faculty Editors

Dr. Amit Rai
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Florida State University

Dr. Maricarmen Martinez
Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University
mmartine@fsu.edu

Dr. David Darst
Professor of Modern Laguages
Florida State University
ddarst@mailer.fsu.edu

Dr. Delia Poey
Professor of Modern Languages
Florida State University
dpoey@fsu.edu

Dr. Nicholas Ruiz III
Department of Humanities
Kaplan University
Editor Kritikos
http://intertheory.org

Dr. Lilliana Cotto-Morales
Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences at
the College of General Studies
Univ. of Puerto Rico
lcotto@uprrp.edu

Dr. Anthony Cascardi
Margaret and Sidney Ancker Distinguished
Professor of Comparative Literature
Rhetoric, and Spanish & Portuguese
University of California Berkeley

Dr. Brunilda Cotto-Ibarra
Professor of Humanities
French Literature and Linguistics
University of Pueto Rico
Rio Piedras Campus
San Juan PR 00936

Dr. C. Richard King
Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Washington State University