Narratives of Place in Literature and Film

About

Steven Allen is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester UK where he is also the Programme Leader. He has published widely on Australian cinema animation representations of landscapes and cultural memory. He is co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts and author of Cinema Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body. Recent research has centered on Australian cinema including The Undead Down Under (in The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan)) and Australian Animation: Landscape Isolation and Connections (in Animated Landscapes: History Form and Function (Bloomsbury)). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Decentring the Outback in Australian Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan) and is a judge for the Australian ATOM awards.Kirsten Møllegaard is Professor of English at University of Hawaii at Hilo. She teaches courses in comics and graphic novels gender and women's studies film literature myth and folklore and rhetoric. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of places people and stories past and present. Her research articles and book reviews have appeared in International Journal of Comic Art; Journal of American Culture; Journal of Popular Culture; Supernatural Studies; Western American Literature; and Folklore. Her most recent book chapters appear in The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination (2017); Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero in Literature Comics and Film (2017); Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural (2016); and Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition Gender Drag (2014). She serves on the board of directors of the Hawaii Council for the Humanities and enthusiastically supports public humanities events on Hawaii Island.