Julia A Empey Editor

Julia A. Empeyis a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the book reviews editor at Interconnections: The Journal of Posthumanism. Her research and publication interests focus on contemporary literature and film, feminist and posthumanist theory, and science fiction literature, film, and media. Her other interests include eco-criticism, cosmopolitan studies, and political theory. Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Dr. Kilbourn publishes on memory, film, comparative studies, critical posthumanism, and postsecular cinema. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (2020), W.G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (2018), The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (co-edited with Eleanor Ty, 2013), and Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010). Dr. Kilbourn is one of the founders of the Posthumanism Research Network and an associate editor at Interconnections: The Journal of Posthumanism, as well as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. His current project is on posthuman memory.