IVÁN VILLARMEA ÁLVAREZ is a film critic, researcher, professor and programmer who currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He holds a Ph. D. from the Universidad de Zaragoza, and has been visiting scholar at the Universidade de Lisboa, the University of Southern California, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Roehampton, the Universidad de La Habana and the Universidad Estatal de Milagro, in Ecuador. His research career is focused on the representation of space and landscape in film, a subject on which he has published the book Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and a Special Issue –edited with Filipa Rosário– in Aniki. Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (2017). Moreover, since 2013, he co-directs the online film journal A Cuarta Parede, for which he has co-edited the volume Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portuguésen el Siglo XXI (2014).
DAVID CAMPANY is a writer, curator and artist. His books and exhibitions include A Handful of Dust; The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip; and Walker Evans: the magazine work. His many essays have appeared in publications for MoMA New York, Tate London, Centre Pompidou Paris and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. A long conversation between David Campany and Daniel Blaufuks is published in Blaufuks' book Works on Memory: selected writings and images.
PAULA RABINOWITZ (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986), Professor Emerita of English, University of Minnesota, serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Her monograph, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street, (Princeton University Press, 2014) won the 2015 DeLong Prize for Book History, and appeared in paperback in 2016. In 2015, she published the edited volumes: Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald , co-edited with Howard Brick and Robbie Lieberman and Red Love across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Ruth Barraclough and Heather Bowen-Struyk along with Extravagances (4), the final volume of the University of Minnesota Press’s four-volume series on clothing and identity: Habits of Being: Accessorzing the Body (1) and Exchanging Clothes (2); Fashioning the Nineteenth Century (3), co-edited with Cristina Giorcelli, appeared. Her earlier books include They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary (Verso, 1994) and Black & White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism (Columbia, 2002). She has been the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, Italy, and two Distinguished Fulbright Professorships: Rome and Shanghai. During 2016, she was a research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She lives in Queens, New York.