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She is currently working on vulnerable forms of masculinity in film, as part of the group “Masculinidades vulnerables y normatividad en las narrativas estadounidenses 1783-1929.”

She specializes in contemporary British fiction and her research focuses in particular on the intersections between trauma studies and the uses of metafiction.

Cristina Arbués Caballé holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Barcelona, where she lectures at both BA and MA levels on postmodernist fiction, contemporary literature, and globalized identities.

Cristina Arbués Caballé reviews Jaime Harrison’s Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction, which investigates representations of algorithms in works by Joshua Cohen, Nicola Barker, Neal Stephenson & a Grasshopper Manufacture visual novel. @livunipress.bsky.social

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Recently, she won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award at ICFA 2025 for her paper, “Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs.”

Miranda Miller received her B.A. in English & Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and is currently a 2nd year graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. She is pursuing her M.A. in English with a concentration in SFF.

Miranda Miller reviews Julie Wosk’s Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females, which examines the representation of artificial women across media, highlighting the relationships between sexuality, gender, technology, and simulation.

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He holds a BA in Creative Writing and a BA (Hons) in English Studies from the University of South Africa, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hull, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria.

Jayden King is a professional military flight instructor with a special interest in fantasy literature and creative writing.

Jayden King reviews Matthew Oliver's Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, which close reads selected novels by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, and N. K. Jemisin to explore language and style in epic fantasy.

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Her ongoing research investigates posthuman themes in anglophone South Asian science fiction as they intersect with environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies and dystopian studies. She has previously published a book review in the South Asian Review.

Anna Juhi John is a doctoral scholar in the Department of English Studies, Central University of Gujarat. Her research focuses on South Asian science fiction written in, and translated into English, particularly in the twenty-first century.

Anna Juhi John reviews Urvashi Kuhad’s Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials, which examines the works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh. @routledgebooks.bsky.social

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Anna Juhi John is a doctoral scholar in the Department of English Studies, Central University of Gujarat. Her research focuses on South Asian science fiction written in, and translated into English, particularly in the twenty-first century.

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She has written about the illustrations of Alice, worldbuilding, and the role of music & poetry in the text. She has also examined Discworld by Terry Pratchett, analyzing the importance of footnotes as a tool for expanding the lore and reinforcing the satire.

Andrea Valeiras-Fernández’s PhD research in English Studies focused on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, analyzing its presence in popular culture. Her current academic interests focus on storytelling and the social assimilation of different narratives.

Andrea Valeiras @aryaflintstark.bsky.social reviews The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien, & the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination (eds. Łukasz Neubauer & Guglielmo Spirito), which compares The Chronicles of Narnia and Tolkien’s subcreative works.

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She has previously published on the emotions of draugar in Icelandic sagas and has an upcoming chapter on Jack Kirby’s use of Norse mythological imagery in twentieth century comic books.

Natalie Hopwood is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. Her thesis offers an intertextual analysis of encounters with dragons, dwarfs and the undead in Old Norse legendary and romance sagas. Her secondary research niche is the reception of medieval literature in popular culture.

Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social reviews Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of Tolkien's Legendarium by Richard Z. Gallant @richardzgallant.bsky.social, which offers a new perspective on the theory of Northern Courage & the heroic.

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His professional interests include science fiction, fan studies, and the intersection of libraries and social justice.

Jeremy Brett is a Librarian at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University, where he is the Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection. He has received his MLS & MA in History from the University of Maryland–College Park.

Jeremy Brett @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future Pasts (eds. Ian P. MacDonald and Kate Polak) which explores the intersections between the historical and the speculative. @livunipress.bsky.social

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