Aybige Yilmaz Editor

Aybige Yilmaz is Head of the Department of Film, TV and Media at Kingston University. Her areas of research and publication include gendered representations of national identity; gender, consumer culture and individualism; and globalization and cosmopolitanism.
Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Reader in Communication at Edge Hill University. She is the author of Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants (2013) and co-editor of The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism (2013). She also researches Roma rights in the European Union, European identity, media representations of the European Union, and the legal and symbolic relationship between diasporic communities and nation-states.
Aris Mousoutzanis is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton. His areas of research and publication include representations of trauma in literature, film and television; popular media genres (science fiction and the Gothic); and digital media and globalization. He is currently researching the relationship between trauma theory and media cultures.