Danica Čerče is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her field of research includes American and Australian literature. She is the author of Pripovedništvo Johna Steinbecka (2006) and Reading Steinbeck in Eastern Europe (2011), chapters in Steinbeck and His Contemporaries (2007), A John Steinbeck Reader (2007), Steinbeck’s Global Dimensions (2007), The Grapes of Wrath: A Re-Consideration (2009), East of Eden: New and Recent Essays (2013), A Companion to Aboriginal Literature (2013), and several other articles.
Dan Disney has published poems, reviews, and essays on contemporary poetry and creativity in journals from Australia, Europe, and Britain. His collection of poems—and then when the—is published by John Leonard Press (2011). He teaches at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, in the English Literature programme.
Imogen Forbes-Macphail is an honours student and Fogarty Scholar at the University of Western Australia. Her current research is focused on mathematics and Victorian poetry, and she intends to pursue this in future doctoral studies. Her other research interests include medieval and medievalist literature, and the digital humanities. She is the founder and editor of Cerae, an open-access, multi-media, graduate journal of medieval and early modern studies.
Claire Hansen is a PhD candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her thesis is centred on the ways in which complexity theory can be used in Shakespeare studies. This research forms part of a broader team project called ‘Better Strangers,’ led by Associate Professor Liam Semler of the University of Sydney, which explores innovative ways of teaching and learning Shakespeare.
Christian Long lives in Brisbane, where he is a lecturer at the University of Queensland. He is the co-editor, with Jeff Menne, of Film and the American Presidency (Routledge, 2014) and the author of articles in Senses of Cinema, Post45, and Canadian Review of American Studies.