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Mara Fridell works at the Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, where she teaches social theory. Dr. Fridell does research in Social Policy, Inequality, Political Sociology, and Social Reproduction. She has recently published on gender and immigration policy, with the project 'Small States in the Multipolar World,' as well as work in a separate collaboration on solidaristic, egalitarian economic development and its policy infrastructure. Current research projects include studies of the policy institutionalization of inegalitarian relations within education and state bureaucracy; the epigenetic turn; and a third collaborative project researching historical, comparative American working class and global capitalist class responses to the US's social citizenship era.

Christine Becker received her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and Ph.D. in Communication Arts: Film Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. She has been in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame since 2000, specializing in film and television history, critical analysis of film and television, and media industry studies. She also teaches courses for the Sports, Media, and Culture Minor. Specialties: Film and television history Critical analysis of film and television Media industry studies TV narrative and Aesthetics British television Sports and television Stardom and celebrity History, Theory, and Criticism Research Interests: media industries, television history, TV narrative and aesthetics, British television, sports and television, stardom and celebrity Representative Publications, Performances, and Creative Works It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on Fifties Television. (Wesleyan University Press, 2008). “BBC America: Cloning Drama for a Transnational Network,” in Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, and Matt Hills, eds., Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans. (Oxford University Press, 2019), 69-86. "Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality Television,” in Christopher Hogg and Tom Cantrell, eds., Exploring Television Acting. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018), 140-153. “Off Goes the Telly: Writer Discourse on the Life on Mars Franchise Finales,” Journal of Screenwriting (Vol 6 Num 2: 2015): 173-188. "Paul Newman: Superstardom and Anti-Stardom,” in Pamela Robertson Wojcik, ed., New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s, Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2011), 14-33.

Sydney Freeman Jr., Ph.D., is revolutionizing the way we think about higher education. With a focus on Black student and employee experiences in higher education, the faculty career-cycle and higher education, Freeman’s research is breaking down barriers and pushing boundaries.
At 36 years old, Freeman made U of I history as the first African American man to achieve full professorship at the university. He’s also the director of the university’s Black History Research Lab, which was founded in 2021. His appreciation of Black history fueled his desire to help share stories of past Black students and faculty members on a college campus where those groups may feel under-represented. And recently, he founded the Black Research Institute for Flourishing and Thriving an initiative that develops scholarship that leads to effective policy and practice prescriptions that facilitate a wholistic sense of belonging and joy for the Black community.

Erin James joined the English Department at University of Idaho in 2012. Her first book The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) explores the intersections of ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and narrative theory and questions the role narratives stand to play in a response to today’s environmental crisis. It was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s (ASLE) Best Ecocriticism Book award and won the International Society for the Study of Narrative’s (ISSN) Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. Her second book, Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State University Press, 2022), considers the links between storytelling and anthropogenic climate change; it was also short-listed for the ASLE Best Ecocriticism Book Award. In addition to these two books, Erin co-edited Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (Ohio State University Press, 2022) with Eric Morel.
Erin has also published essays in Cambridge Critical Concepts: Nature and Literary Studies (Cambridge UP, 2023), SubStance, DIEGESIS, Poetics Today, The Language of Plants (U of Minnesota Press 2017), the Journal of Narrative Theory, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, The Bioregional Imagination (U of Georgia P 2012), and Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies (Palgrave 2012).
At University of Idaho, Erin teaches courses on world literatures in English, postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities, narratology and narrative theory, and critical theory. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the interdisciplinary , which uses interdisciplinary methods to study environmental issues in rural communities. With her Confluence Lab collaborators, Erin has received major grants from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. She is the former mentoring program co-coordinator for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.