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

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, modernism, and empire. He currently teaches a course on Cultural Imperialism.

Bo Bentele
BA Humanities, New College of Florida (2004)

Bo studies social and cultural reproduction, media, power, and the act of education. He is interested in gender, identity, cultural studies, and performance theories, and how those frameworks can assist in the transformation and liberation of consciousness and ideology. Specific areas of research include literature, philosophy, film, pedagogy, social movements, privilege, adaptation, and canon studies. Best-versed in the Modern period, he works within the aesthetic, political, and cultural contexts of the Ancient and Middle periods as well.

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.

Susana Diaz-Boria
MA Humanities, Florida State University (2006)

Currently Susana works for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies major track and teaches Latin American film. In this course students are able to examine the film industry in Latin America as well as that of the different Latino Diasporas in the US. Susana also wants to film documentaries that address Human Rights Issues in Latin America. Also, besides teaching, one of her main goals is to become a public speaker.

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.

Marie Patrick
BA English Literature, Middle Tennessee State University (2004)

Marie is a second year master's student in Humanities with a concentration in 20th Century Culture. In particular, she is interested in the interconnections of literature, philosophy, human psychology, and political realities of this period. She is also pursuing a certificate in Publishing and Editing.

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.

Lindsey Smitherman
BA Humanities, Florida State University (2006)

Lindsey earned a BA from Florida State in English Literature and Humanities in 2006. She is currently working on a Masters in Humanities, majoring in 20th c. American Culture. Her academic interests include Art History, American Literature, Popular Culture, and Women's Studies.

Faculty Editors

Dr. David Johnson
Chair
Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University
djohnson@fsu.edu

Dr. Maricarmen Martinez
Associate Chair
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