Havi Carel
is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at UWE, Bristol, UK. Her research interests include phenomenology, philosophy of psychoanalysis (especially Freud) and metaphysics. She is currently working on a project which develops a phenomenology of illness and is writing a book entitled Illness which will be published by Acumen in 2008. Among her publications are Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (New York: Rodopi, 2006), What Philosophy Is (London: Continuum, 2004) and various journal articles.
Patrick Crogan
teaches at the University of Adelaide’s Discipline of Media. He has published numerous texts on film, computer games, new media and critical theory in journals and anthologies including Angelaki, Theory, Culture & Society and Film-Philosophy. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals including Scan, Games and Culture and Convergence.
Fiona Jenkins
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian National University, teaching courses in Contemporary French Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Social and Political Philosophy and on Film as Philosophy. Her essays have appeared in a range of journals including differences, borderlands, Angelaki, The Australian Journal of Human Rights, Contretemps and Constellations. Her current research project is organised around the theme of 'ungrievable lives'.
Daniel Ross
is co-director of the film The Ister (2004) and author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Matthew Sharpe
teaches philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate 2004) and several articles on critical theory and political philosophy in particular.
Robert Sinnerbrink
is Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007) and co-editor of Critique Today (Brill, 2006) and Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (Brill, 2007). He has published articles on European philosophy and philosophy of film in Critical Horizons, The International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Social Semiotics, Literature and Aesthetics, Parrhesia, Continuum, and Film-Philosophy.
Catherine Summerhayes
is a lecturer in Film Studies at the Australian National University and has recently been published in several national and international journals and anthologies, including a major article, Haunting Secrets - Tracey Moffatt’s beDevi’ in Film Quarterly Vol. 58:1. Her monograph on Moffatt’s films, The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt will be published by Charta Edizione, Milan in September 2007.