Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature, School of Language and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He organizes the Forum for Intermedial Studies, Linnaeus University, and chairs the board of the Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies. Elleström has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (Bucknell University Press, 2002) and Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, gender, and irony.
Kristin Rygg is Associate Professor of Musicology at Hedmark University College. A scarlet thread in her research is music and intermediality. She was one of the founders and a board member of the International association of Word and Music Studies and of the Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies for several years, the latter she has also chaired. Her publications include Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater and its Pythagorean Subtext (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, 2000), articles on music in film and theatre, on relationships between music philosophy and musical iconography, and on music-poetry relations. She is currently working on a book on the emergence of music theatre in Scandinavia, as well as on articles on music inspired by Goethe’s Faust, and on word-myth-music relations in several rock melodies.
Cecilia Lindhé is research fellow and assistant director at HUMlab, Umeå University. Lindhé defended her PhD-thesis in comparative literature - Visual Variations. Image and Aesthetics in Kerstin Ekman's Novels - at Uppsala University in 2008. Her postdoc-project concerns digital perspectives on rhetorical and aesthetic theory. She is also involved in the research project Imitatio Mariae. The Emotions of Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts and Pictures. (funded by the Swedish Research Council).
Jesper Olsson is LiU Researcher and Swedish Academy Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden, freelance critic, and one of the editors of the journal OEI. He is currently finishing a book on audiotape and the tape recorder in postwar literature and art, and has written extensively on contemporary poetry, avant-garde aesthetics, and media history. His most recent publication is Remanens. Bandspelaren som re-pro-du-dak-tionsteknologi (2011). Forthcoming in the fall is Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde, edited together with Jonas Ingvarsson.
Timothy Murray is Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Cornell University. He is the Cornell Principal Investigator of the Mellon Central Humanities Corridor, and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of the Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the Steering Committee of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). He is Co-Moderator of the -empyre- new media listserv and the author of Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota 2008); Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-ROM (Centro de la imagen, 1999); Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997); Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993); Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in XVIIth-Century England and France (Oxford, 1987). He is editor of Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997) and, with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (Minnesota, 1997). His curatorial projects include CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA and Contact Zones: The Art of the CD-Rom.
Louise Mønster ph.d. and lecturar in Danish and Scandinavian literature at Aalborg University. Recent publications include Nedbrydningens opbyggelighed. Litterære historier i det 20. århundredes nordiske modernistiske lyrik (2009), Kulturtrafik. Æstetiske udtryk i en global verden (2011), Passage 63: Dansk litteratur i 00’erne (2010) and Stedet. Modernisme i nordisk lyrikk 2 (2008).
Hans Kristian Rustad is Ph.D. and Associate Professor at Hedmark University College. His main research interests are in the field of digital literature and new media. He is currantly working on a book about digital literature in Scandinavia.
Joachim Schiedermair is Professor for Scandinavian Literature at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald (Germany). He is member of the editorial board of „Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur“. Recent publications include (in addition to a number of articles in German, Skandinavian and English scholarly books and journals) „(V)erklärte Gesichter. Der Porträtdiskurs in der Literatur des dänisch-norwegischen Idealismus“ (2009). Forthcoming: „Hoch, Ebenhoch, der Dritte. Elite als Thema skandinavistischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft“ (2011; co-editor: Wilhelm Heizmann) and „Wechselkurse des Vertrauens. Zur Konzeptualisierung von Ökonomie und Vertrauen im nordischen Idealismus“ (2012; co-editor: Klaus Müller-Wille). Furthermore he is head of “Nordischer Klang”, a festival for northern culture, which takes place in May every year in the Hanseatic city of Greifswald.
David Trotter is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He was co-founder of the Cambridge Screen Media Group, and first Director of the University's MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Recent publications include Cinema and Modernism (2007) and The Uses of Phobia: Essays on Literature and Film (2010).
Marius Wulfsberg is Associate Professor at the National Library of Oslo. He has written a Phd-thesis on European modernism, and several essays on literary texts exploring the border between fiction and non-fiction. He has also worked as a non-fiction editor.
