Three guest editors discuss how the articles collected here invite readers to rethink the politics of looking, mourning, and remembering.
Devaleena Kundu
Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Arts and Design at the South Asian University, New Delhi. Former Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, she holds a PhD in English Literature from EFL University, Hyderabad. As a researcher, she navigates the domains of death studies, gothic horror, and cultural criminology. She is particularly interested in popular cultural representations of gore and the gothic. She is an associate network member of DaCNet: Interdisciplinary Death & Culture Research group based at the University of York and an advisory board member of the International Women’s Writing Association. She is also on the editorial board of the journal Mortality. Besides her academic pursuits, Devaleena is a plant mom and a travel enthusiast who occasionally experiments with acrylic on canvas.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
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