Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Article 1: Netflix and Crime: Identification with the Characters of La Casa de Papel Spanish Series

Dr Afnan Qutub is an assistant professor in Digital Media at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. She graduated with a PhD degree in Philosophy from Leicester University, UK. She completed an M.A. degree in Communication Studies from California State University, USA. Her research interests include media representation and internet studies. She published several works. A previous essay of hers, entitled “The presentation of Muslim women in the media: Saving Muslim women from their misery” was published in 2017. A recent co-authored study titled Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User” was published in 2021. Email: aqutub@kau.edu.sa

Co-authors, Dina Marie, Samar Meer, and Amira Alkurdi, are graduates from the Public Relations Department at King Abdulaziz University.

Article 2: Et Tu, Atticus!: The Hero of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Cold War

Dr Akiyoshi Suzuki is a professor of American literature, world literature and East-West Studies at Nagasaki University, Japan. He has held positions such as guest professor at Suzhou University of Science & Technology in China, Librasia 2014 conference chair & featured speaker, and so forth, and now he is president of Katahira English Literature Society, editorin-chief of Japan Society of Text Study and Japan Society of Stylistics, a member of the editorial board of the International Association for East-West Studies (USA), and others. Akiyoshi Suzuki has introduced innovative and inventive readings of literature, such as 3-D topographic reading of Haruki Murakami’s fictions (IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship 2(1), resistance against identity-centrism reading of Henry Miller’s fictions (Delta 7), and so on. E-mail: suzu-a@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Article 3: The Effectiveness of Coloring in Reducing Anxiety and Improving PWB in Adolescents

Cindy Emanuela is a clinical psychologist, a graduate of Tarumanagara University, Indonesia, who field of study is coloring activity for anxious adolescence. Her interest in this area began while exploring clinical issues in abnormalities and psychopathology. Through journal analysis and personal counseling services, she follows case studies such as depression cases, personality disorder cases, and anxiety cases. She currently has a private counseling service. Email: cindyemanuela10@gmail.com

Dr Monty P. Satiadarma is a Clinical Psychologist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Indonesia (2006). He also obtained an MA (Art Therapy) from the Emporia State University, Kansas (1986) and MFCC from College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California (1990). He was the co-founder of Department of Psychology, Tarumanagara, Indonesia.

Dr Roswiyani Roswiyani obtained her BA in Psychology from Tarumanagara University, an MA in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indonesia, and her PhD from Radboud

University, The Netherlands (2019). Her research was on Art Therapy for Depression on the Elderly. She has presented papers in numbers of International Congresses including IAFOR. She is a senior lecturer at Tarumanagara University.

Article 4: Contours of Resistance: The Postcolonial Female Subject and the Diaspora in the Punjabi Short Story

Yubee Gill teaches literature in the Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. His research interests include Narrative Poetics, Diaspora Studies, and Indian Writing in Translation. Email: yubee.eng@gndu.ac.in

Article 5: Exile and the Disabled Body in Randa Jarrar’s “The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie”

Dr Shahd Alshammari is Assistant Professor of Literature at Gulf University for Science and Technology. She is the author of Notes on the Flesh (2017) and Head Above Water (2022). Email: shahdalshammari@gmail.com

Yasmeen Al-Askari holds a BA in English literature from Gulf University for Science and Technology. She is currently an English teacher.

Article 6: Deep Ecological Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Book of The Hunter’: An Eco-Conscious Approach

Darshana N Pachkawade is as an Assistant professor at the Department of Humanities, Pillai College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai India and a Research Scholar pursuing a PhD. Her area of interest includes Indian English Literature, American literature, Subaltern studies, and translation studies. She deals with the subjects like Professional Communication, Corporate Ethics, Soft Skills, Interpersonal Skills and so forth. Email: dpachkawade@mes.ac.in

Article 7: The Luit in Bhupen Hazarika’s Songs: A Metaphor for Exploring Assam’s Linguistic and Ethnic Politics

Jayashree Borah is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest are Memory Studies, Northeast India Literature, South Asian Literature and Translation Practice. She has been teaching Literature to undergraduate students for nearly fourteen years. She has presented papers in national and international conferences and has published book chapters. She is currently working on the representation, politics and contestations of memory in literatures of migration and conflict from Assam, India. Email: jayashreeborah@gmail.com

Article 8: Caged Bodies, Raging Minds, Dissident Voices: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Taslima Nasreen

Ananya Bhattacharyya is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English, Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She has a MA degree in English from University of Calcutta and MPhil in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University,

Kolkata. Her areas of interest include women in war/armed political conflict, politics of remembering and forgetting in writing women's history, resistance writing, subaltern narratives, women short fiction writers in South Asia and so forth. Her personal blog is ananyabhattacharyyablog@wordpress Email: ananyalovestowrite@gmail.com

Article 9: Qipao: The Carrier of Chinese Cultural and Philosophical Symbols

Dr Fung Kei Cheng is an Independent Research in Hong Kong and focuses on applying Buddhist and Chinese cultural theories to a variety of disciplines, including counselling and psychotherapy, mental health, public health, complementary and alternative medicine, conflict resolution, management, gender studies, cultural studies, and sustainable development. Her research outcomes have been published in international peer-reviewed journals in English and Chinese. Email: oasischeng@yahoo.com

Article 10: A Tree Crosses the City: The Unconventional Artistry of Miguel-Ángel Zapata

Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Editor of IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, has taught at Hofstra University in New York, USA, for over thirty years. He specialises in medieval and early modern literature, receiving his PhD (1989) from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has completed post-doctoral work at the University of Valladolid, Spain, has published six books, and is a frequent contributor to specialised journals. Alfonso received primary and secondary education in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, the place where his family originated and where he grew up. An avid cyclist, he has completed the Road to Santiago, an 867-kilometre route through northern Spain, six times. Email: publications@iafor.org