Born in 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner was one of millions of enslaved persons of African descent in the United States. Encouraged to learn to read and write, Turner immersed hims...
Alan Johnson is Professor of English at Idaho State University, USA. He is the author of Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement (2001) and articles on topics rangi...
Joan F. Smith lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she works as an associate dean, a creative writing professor, and a dance instructor. She received her MFA in creative writing from Emers...
Paul Sugarman is an actor, editor, writer, and teacher of Shakespeare. He is founder of the Instant Shakespeare Company, which presents annual readings of all of Shakespeare’s plays in New York Cit...
Lisa Gotto (Prof. Dr. phil.) is professor of film theory at the University of Vienna. She specializes in the fields of film history, film theory, and digital media culture. Her main research areas ...
Fiaz Rafiq is a sports and entertainment journalist and author. After 15 years writing for bestselling magazine Martial Arts Illustrated (MAI) and contributing to magazines such as MMA Uncaged, Fig...
Stephen Ellcock is a London-based online collector and curator of images, writer, researcher and former musician and bookseller who spends most of his time nowadays creating an ever-expanding, virt...