Autotheory and Its Others

Biographies

• Becky McLaughlin

  (Editor)

  University of South Alabama

  Becky McLaughlin is Professor of English at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches critical theory, early American literature, film, and gender studies. She has published essays on a wide range of topics—amputee wannabes, auto-ethnography, epistemological trauma, feminine jouissance, rock music, sexual fantasy, and the voice, to name a few—across a wide range of periods and genres such as medieval literature, Restoration comedy, modern poetry, contemporary film, and the fairy tale. She has also published autotheory pieces based on her childhood in the Belgian Congo, her cousin’s suicide in a Memphis jail cell, the death of an aerobatic pilot in the Arkansas Delta, her first marriage and its annulment, and the panic attack as hysterical symptom. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as Intelligent Erotica, Transverse, Westview, and Zizzle Literary. Two of her longer publications include The Body in Theory: Essays after Lacan and Foucault (McFarland, 2021), co-edited with Eric Daffron, and Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in The Canterbury Tales (Medieval Institute Publications, 2020). She is currently completing a textbook entitled American Fanatics, Heretics, and Rebels: Hot Protestants and Religious Strife in Early American Literature, 1620–1865.

• Eric Daffron

  (Editor)

  Ramapo College

  Eric Daffron is a professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Early in his career, he published widely on early British Gothic literature and other topics, including his book Romantic Doubles: Sex and Sympathy in British Gothic Literature, 1790–1830 (AMS Press, 2002). More recently, he has explored topics as diverse as masturbation, sex clubs, pornography, COVID-19, and masks. With Becky R. McLaughlin, he edited The Body in Theory: Essays after Lacan and Foucault (McFarland, 2021) and he has also written travel memoirs about Morocco and creative-critical essays inspired by Roland Barthes. That work has been published or is forthcoming in Moving across the Landscape in Search of an Idea (Air and Nothingness Press, 2024) and Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, European Journal of Life Writing, L’Esprit Literary Review, The AutoEthnographer, Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, and Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature.

• Maria Gil Ulldemolins

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  Hasselt University

  Maria Gil Ulldemolins is Assistant Professor of Creative-Critical Research Methods in the Architecture and Art Faculty of Hasselt University, Belgium. Her work uses academic-performative writing in order to generate meaning through unexpected, and often anachronistic, encounters. She is particularly concerned with citational and referential practices in the overlap of interiority, interior architecture, and language. She is one of the co-founders of the research line and peer-reviewed journal Passage(opens in new tab).

• Kris Pint

  (Editor)

  Hasselt University

  Kris Pint is Associate Professor of Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Hasselt University. His research focuses on how creative (non-)fiction can be used in artistic research and how literature, interior architecture, and visual arts help propose alternative forms of living, dwelling, and knowing. In addition to a series of articles published on these topics, and several books in Dutch, he is also the author of The Perverse Art of Reading: On the Phantasmatic Semiology in Roland Barthes’ Cours au Collège de France (Brill, 2010).