Cosplay Roundtable

Dr. Paul Mountfort is the author, with Anne Peirson-Smith and Adam Geczy, of Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom (2018), and an editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. He is an associate professor in critical media studies at Auckland University of Technology.

Dr. Julie Escurignan is assistant professor and head of the master’s in creative and cultural industries management at De Vinci Business School, France. She holds a PhD in film and television studies from the University of Roehampton, London (UK), and a master’s in communication studies from the Sorbonne University. She publishes broadly in the area of critical media theory.

Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is senior lecturer in creative business at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014) and is author of Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affective Reception in Popular Culture (2018). She has published and spoken widely in the area of cosplay and related media and fan practices.

Dr. Suzanne Scott is associate professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas in Austin. She holds a PhD in critical studies from the University of Southern California (2011). She is author of Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender and the Convergence Culture Industry (NYU Press, 2019) and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (2018).