Notes on Contributors

Dr. Catherine MacMillan is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language andLiterature at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. Her first degree is from the University of Bath, UK
and she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at the European Studies Institute at Marmara
University. Her research interests are interdisciplinary: she is particularly interested inliterary genres in political discourse, including the carnivalesque, gothic and dystopia, andon political themes in literature, including, among others, questions related topostcolonialism, gender and national identity. She has published two books, comprising onemonograph and one edited volume, and has published articles in journals including, amongothers, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies,
Gender Studies and Metaphor.
Stefan Stefanov is Lecturer in Specialized Translation, CAT Tools, and Translation
Management Systems at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.
He is currently working on his doctorate in Remix culture and 21st century authorship. He
has published both in the field of his doctoral studies and in translation technology. He isalso a translator working for some of the world’s leading translation agencies, author ofpoetry and short prose, as well as an amateur DJ. Email: s.d.stefanov@ts.uni-vt.bg.
Dr. Eric C. Hendriks-Kim is a sociologist, currently a Thyssen postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Bonn. He studies China’s place in the globalized order and in theories of worldsociety. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Sociology Department of Peking
University. Hendriks-Kim has studied at University College Utrecht, UC Berkeley, Göttingen,and the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim. His book
Life Advice from Below (Brill) maps the globalization of American-style self-help culture. Asa public intellectual writing in English, Dutch, and German, Hendriks-Kim has published overseventy essays and op-eds in newspapers and magazines such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, NRC, and Times Higher Education.
Davide Orsitto is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Rights and Global Politics at the DIRPOLIS
institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He obtained his master’s degree inInternational Security Studies from a joint program between the University of Trento andScuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He previously worked as a market analyst at General Electric.
His research areas include Welfare Studies, Political Theory, Political Science, and SocialPolicy, focusing on authors such as Esping-Andersen, Peter Hall, and David Soskice. Email:davide.orsitto@santannapisa.it
Dr. J. Jeremy Wisnewski is a Professor of Philosophy at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, NY.
He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Riverside in 2002,
where he studied with the late Bernd Magnus. He has written widely on issues in moral

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philosophy, applied ethics, and phenomenology. His books include Wittgenstein and EthicalInquiry (Continuum, 2007), The Politics of Agency (Routledge/Ashgate, 2008), Understanding
Torture (EUP, 2010), and Heidegger: An Introduction (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013). He isco-editor, with Mark Sanders, of Ethics and Phenomenology (Lexington, 2012). He has alsoedited six books in Blackwell's Philosophy and Pop Culture series.
Dr. Rossen Roussev is Associate Professor in Contemporary Philosophy at “St. Cyril and St.
Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Kazakh
British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Assistant Professor at Kyungpook NationalUniversity, Daegu, S. Korea, and at St. John’s University in New York. He also taught at theUniversity of Aktobe, the City University of New York, and Mercy College in New York. He
obtained his doctorate in philosophy from The New School for Social Research in New York(2005). His publications and interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of language, criticaltheory, and philosophy of culture. Email: r.roussev@ts.uni-vt.bg

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