2024 Contributors
Jesse Cook is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His dissertation examines how twentieth-century authors, disillusioned by the dehumanization of mass industry, reconsider work’s role in defining U.S. identity and recast the jingoistic narrative of U.S. industry and exceptionalism as a tool to delegitimize efforts by workers to gain a greater sense of autonomy and self-actualization through labor activism. [return to article]
Luke Holmaas received his PhD in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. His research centers around gags, contemporary Hollywood comedy, and genre. He has previously published work on gags in live-action/animation comedy and satire in dystopian science fiction film. Potential future work plans to examine the role of comedy and genre hybridity in other popular cinemas, focusing on Hong Kong and Chinese films from the 1980s and on. [return to article]
Lisa Jackson is a lecturer at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches U.S. women’s history, the history of citizenship in the United States, and the U.S. history survey. Her research interests include gender, race, and labor, particularly how these intersecting themes operate at the level of the body. This article is part of a larger research project on radical bodies in the United States and Great Britain. Lisa is a former stagehand and maintains her membership in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 16, in San Francisco, California, where she teaches U.S. Labor history for the union’s apprentice program. [return to article]
Tara Kraft-Ainsworth is a doctoral student studying art history at the University of Georgia. Her research explores how Surrealist artists in interwar France, and Europe more broadly, grappled with the quick readability of mass-produced literature and visual culture. She is particularly interested in how regional versions of the detective genre—from the French crime novel to the British murder mystery to American hardboiled fiction—were translated to visual art and why artists saw the detective genre’s formulaic system as an apt conduit to debate modern modes of observation and attention. [return to article]
David Magill is professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University, where he teaches courses in African American Literature, women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and U.S. Race and Ethnic studies. He has published several articles on race and masculinity in literature and contemporary media, and is currently completing a manuscript entitled A Few Good Men: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Rise of Ethical Manhood. [return to article]
Michelle E. Moore is professor of English at the College of Dupage where she teaches courses in American literature and film studies. She is the author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series, 2019) and has co-edited the books Refocus: The Films of John Waters (Edinburgh UP, 2025) and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (Edinburgh UP 2020). She has published articles in Faulkner Studies, Cather Studies, and Literature/Film Quarterly, in addition to contributing chapters to Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll (Bloomsbury Academic), Rape in Art Cinema (Continuum), and Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP). [return to article]
Izabella Parowicz is a Polish scholar and translator with Master's degrees in Management and International Relations from the Poznań University of Economics in Poland and in Cultural Heritage Preservation from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, where she also earned her doctorate and habilitation. She is currently a senior researcher at the European University Viadrina and the coordinator of the MA course "Strategies for European Cultural Heritage." Her academic work focuses on cultural heritage management and marketing, supported by two Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships funded by the European Commission, during which she conducted research at the University of Malta and the European University Viadrina. With over 35 years of experience as a genealogist, she contributes to memory studies, focusing on the use of genealogical findings to uncover overlooked aspects of family, regional, and local heritage. This approach underpins her work on the monograph, co-authored with Dr. Mariusz Kolmasiak, on General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, drawing on the family’s rich photographic and documentary legacy. The monograph is forthcoming from the Institute of National Remembrance Publishing House. [return to article]
LUKE SEABER is Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture on the Undergraduate Preparatory Certificate for the Humanities (of which he is also Senior Co-Ordinator) at University College London. He is author of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Influence on George Orwell: A Surprising Irony (2012) and Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017). He has published various articles and chapters on British literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is co-editor (with Michael McCluskey) of Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (2020) and (with Nick Hubble and Elinor Taylor) the volume on the 1930s in the Bloomsbury Decades of Fiction series (2021). He is Co-President (2023-2026) of the Space Between Society, and a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the British Association for Modernist Studies. [return to table of contents]
Eret Talviste is researcher at the University of Tartu, Estonia, where she conducts research on British, Estonian, and Irish modernism and teaches courses on British literature. She is also the editor of the Estonian gender studies journal Ariadne Lõng. Her work has appeared in Feminist Modernist Studies, The Journal of Baltic Studies, The Modernist Review, and is forthcoming in Angelaki: Journal of The Theoretical Humanities. Her first monograph Strange Intimacies—Affect, Embodiment, and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. Although a hopeless Woolfian, her research also branches out transnationally. [return to article]
Naomi van Overveld is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, where she also earned her Master’s degree in English literature and culture. Naomi’s research project focuses on early twentieth-century masculinity in British literature in novels by authors such as E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall, and she is particularly interested in the ways in which ideas on masculine identity and expression change throughout the writing process of a single novel, by comparing and contrasting manuscript versions of those novels. Naomi’s contribution to this edition of The Space Between journal is her first publication. [return to article]