Ryan Banfi holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the Martin Scorsese Cinema Studies Department at NYU. He is a Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar on the Games and Culture editorial board. Ryan’s writing has been published in Design Issues, Critical Inquiry, Contexts, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Television & New Media, New Review of Film and Television Studies,The International Journal of James Bond Studies, Games and Culture, Game Studies, Mediapolis, Flow Online Journal, Studies in European Cinema, and In Media Res. He currently teaches video games, film, TV, and American literature at MassArt and Emerson College.
Harry Jiandang Tan (谈建党) is a bilingual, independent scholar of Western anti-Chinese political satire. His contributions include developing a theoretical framework for studying 19th-century anti-Chinese cartoons, identifying Chinese portrayals as the seventh element in Western political satire, and analyzing the Chinese braid as a symbol within visual rhetoric and transcultural discourse. He also explores media-artist relations in the production of colonial-era anti-Chinese cartoons. In addition to his academic work, he organizes international exhibitions and symposia to promote dialogue on these historical and visual culture themes. Email: harry@hjt.com.au
Reeta E. Kangas currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Art History, University of Turku, Finland. Her ongoing research on early 19th century Finnish fables is part of the larger project Becoming a reading nation? Children’s books and educational literature in Finland, 1790-1850 (https://sites.utu.fi/luka/en/). She specializes in Soviet and Russian visual culture. Kangas is especially interested in visual propaganda, the interplay of image and text as well as the representations of non-human animals in various cultural products. She has published on Soviet and Russian visual culture, including Soviet political cartoons and contemporary Russian comics.
Eli Lerner is a student at Deep Springs College. He developed this manuscript while a student at Marlborough School in Los Angeles, California, under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Lynch and the mentorship of Dr. Carolyn Cocca, Professor of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury.
Patrick Callahan is a PhD candidate in Classics at UCLA. His dissertation looks at the letters of Cicero and the jokes that he shares in them, showing how often our understanding of ancient texts depends on sensitivities to the tone which their authors intended for them. When he is not laughing with (or at) Cicero, Patrick enjoys walking, practicing German, and visiting family. A native of Kansas City, Patrick received BA’s from The University of Dallas, then moved from one big state to another. He recently finished a fellowship year with the University of Florida’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education.
