Floodgates Technologies, Cultural (Ex)Change and the Persistence of Place

The Editors: Susan Ingram has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta and is Coordinator of the European Studies program at York University. In addition to auto/biography, translation and fashion theory, she is also interested in the intersections of film and Europe.
Markus Reisenleitner has a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He is currently the Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His areas of research include urban culture, theories of space and the environment, vernacular culture, and pre-modern Europe.
Cornelia Szabó-Knotik has a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Vienna and is Associate Professor at the Institute of Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Interested in the aesthetic content as well as the social and cultural importance of music, her main subjects are the history of music-life, the many phenomena of reception, including the importance of new media for the way the musical heritage is confronted.