Dr Vincent M. Gaine

Vincent M. Gaine is a film scholar whose research focuses on the intersection of globalisation, liminality and identity politics on screen. He has published on contemporary filmmakers including Michael Mann, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, as well as the superhero and spy genres. He is currently researching nostalgic espionage as part of a research network on the legacy of 9/11 in screen culture.
Vincent is also a film critic and podcaster, and his work can be found on his blog, Vincent’s Views. https://vincentmgaine.wordpress.com/
Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Patricia Prieto-Blanco works as a lecturer in Digital Media Practice in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her interdisciplinary and practice-oriented expertise includes visual research methods, image-based activism and media practices in the context of migration and kinship.
Dr Dalila Missero
Dalila Missero works as a lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts). Her research interests include feminist filmmaking, critical archival studies, audiences, digital humanities, and transnational cinema. In 2022, she published her first monograph Women, Feminism, and Italian Cinema. Archives from a Film Culture (Edinburgh University Press), which won the runner-up award of the BAFTSS 2023 Publication Awards.
Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li

Eva Cheuk-Yin Li is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the Sociology Department. She is a global media and cultural researcher with research interests in queer fandom, East and Southeast Asian popular culture, and gender and sexuality. She has previously published articles about the queer fandom of the first publicly-out lesbian singer, Denise Ho (HOCC), in the Sinophone world and the nostalgic fandom of a disappeared urban anarchy in colonial Hong Kong. She is the assistant editor of Media, Culture & Society, and is currently researching queer media in Southeast Asia and the geopolitics of fandom in Sinophone Asia.