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Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Lecturer in Research and Music Literature at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. For the past two years, she has worked on the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre's ARC funded project, ‘Sound Links: Exploring the dynamics of musical communities in Australia and their potential for informing collaboration with music in schools’. She has also worked as a sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. Her PhD thesis was entitled, ‘Gendering the Podium’ and was awarded from the University of Queensland in 2005. She has also published widely on issues relating to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist pedagogy. She is currently co-editing three books on music research, music education and music autoethnography.

Sonja Boon, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Memorial University (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), has research interests in the areas of feminist theory and the body, auto/biography, and the history of medicine. Her doctoral research, completed at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) in 2008, examined the role and function of illness and suffering in the auto/biographical writings of the eighteenth-century Swiss-born salon woman and philanthropist Suzanne Curchod Necker (1737-1794).

Anica Boulanger-Mashberg has recently completed her MA at the University of Tasmania in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages. Her thesis conducted a close reading of Kate Grenville’s novel, The Secret River, and its companion text, Searching for the Secret River. During her MA she also tutored and guest lectured in several undergraduate units in creative writing, which is her other literary interest. Her Honours thesis was a collection of short fiction about one of Hobart’s earliest colonial cottages. Anica is currently working as an editor and writer.

Adam Brown teaches history and literary studies at Deakin University, and works in the testimonies department at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Melbourne. He publishes critical and creative works, and is currently completing a PhD on Holocaust representation, focusing on how moral judgements are communicated in portrayals of 'privileged' Jews in Holocaust memoir, historical writings and film.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.  She is currently writing her thesis on microhistory and paracinematic horror, and in 2007, she completed her MA thesis on rape-revenge film (for which she was awarded an university merit citation). In 2006, she won an ARC Cultural Network Award for her work on Australian horror cinema, and she teaches in the Cinema Studies program at La Trobe University, and the Media and Communications department at Swinburne University.

Elza Ibroscheva is an Assistant Professor in Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds a doctoral degree in Mass Communications and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has been the recipient of a number of research and study grants, including awards from the Central European University, International Research Exchange Board (IREX) and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Her work has published in the International Journal of Communication, Sex Roles, the Journal of Intercultural Communication, and the Russian Journal of Communication. Her research interests include international and political communication, gender representations in the media as well as the effects of globalization on culture.

Timothy Laurie is a doctoral candidate in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, where he is completing a dissertation on Gilles Deleuze and cultural studies methodologies. His interests include Motown, 1980s heavy metal, sound technologies and postcolonial studies. He is currently writing a piece on Afrofuturism and the cultural politics of utopianism.

Adam Marre is a PhD student at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.  His thesis aims to provide a comparative history of the commemoration of Indigenous Australian and Pacific Islander participation in the wars of the 20th century.  It is due to be completed by the end of 2009.  His research interests include historiography and memory studies.

Maria Raicheva-Stover is Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media at Washburn University. She received her doctoral degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her research interests encompass the study of Eastern European media and the social impact of new communication technologies. Raicheva-Stover’s work has appeared in the Howard Journal of Communications and the International Journal of Communication. She is also the co-author of a chapter in Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies.

Marija Pericic is a Masters by Research student at the University of Melbourne. Her current research project examines notions of exile in Irish-Australian cultural dialogue as constructed in contemporary fictional texts. Previous research includes a study of masculinity and national identity in James Joyce’s fiction. Her broader research interests are in the intersections and reciprocity of texts and their socio-cultural contexts.

David Ritter is an honours graduate in history and law from UWA and a doctoral student in history, currently suspended while he undertakes other projects. He is currently working in a senior campaigns position for Greenpeace in London. He has two books on Indigenous issues The Native Title Market (UWA Press) and Contesting Native Title (Allen & Unwin) forthcoming in 2009.