2009 IP/Gender Presenters

Ann Bartow

Prof. Ann Bartow is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She began her teaching career as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University School of Law, where she also received an LL.M. in Legal Education. Professor Bartow currently teaches Intellectual Property Survey Law, Copyright Law, Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law, Patent Law and Cyberspace Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory, and she has published numerous articles and book chapters on these subjects. She also administers the "Feminist Law Professors" blog.

Kristina Busse, "Original Genius and Transformative Repetition"

KristinaBusse's PhD is in English from Tulane University, where she studiedpostmodern Holocaust narratives. She currently teaches in theDepartment of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama.

Hercurrent research is in fan studies. She has coedited a volume withKaren Hellekson, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of theInternet, which was released in October 2006 from McFarland and haspublished a number of articles on fan fiction and fan cultures. She iscoeditor with Karen Hellekson of Transformative Works and Cultures. Herblog about fan studies and other issues is at Ephemeral Traces.

FrancescaCoppa is an Associate Professor of English and the director of filmstudies at Muhlenberg College. She is the editor of "Joe Orton: ACasebook."

Abigail De Kosnik is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Center for New Media and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. Her primary research interests are popular culture and digitaltechnologies, Asian/American studies, and minority discourse. Hercourses include: Performance and Technology, Performance andTelevision, Techno-Orientalism, and Asian/American Performance acrossMedia. She is co-editing, with Sam Ford and C. Lee Harrington, a bookon the endangered genre of daytime television drama, called The Survival of Soap Opera: Strategies for a New Media Era. Her essay on fan fiction as unpaid labor will be appearing in a forthcoming issue of Cinema Journal. She is a Consulting Researcher for MIT's Convergence Culture Consortium,and occasionally produces a form of theater that combines liveperformance and new media. De Kosnik earned her Ph.D. in ComparativeLiterary Studies from Northwestern University. Before enlisting inacademia, she had eight years of experience in start-up developmentand business management.

CaseyFiesler is a writer of short stories in the science fiction and fantasygenre. She went to school (graduate and undergraduate) at Georgia Tech,and attended the Witching Hour Harry Potter symposium. She is currentlya student at Vanderbilt Law School and is on the board of theVanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, and will soon return to Georgia Tech as a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Computing. She attendedthe Clarion Writer's Workshop in 2006.

Jordan Gilbertson is a third year law students at the University Of La Verne College Of Law in and serves as the Chief Notes and Comments Editor for Volume 30 of the University of La Verne Law Review. Jordan graduated from the University of Evansville in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Mass Media Law and Women's Studies. After law school Jordan plans to seek a Masters in Law Library Sciences. Jordan's other scholarship "Little Girls Lost: Can the International Community Protect Girl Soldiers" was published in volume 29 of the University of La Verne Law Review.

KarenHellekson is a BELS-certified copyeditor in the scientific, technical,and medical industry. She specializes in book and journal work. Shealso writes book reviews about upcoming science fiction releases forPublishers Weekly. She is currently doing work about the intersectionbetween fan studies and historiography, and about fan gift culture.

Karenreceived her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas, where shestudied with Professor Emeritus James Gunn. She has published two booksand a number of articles, and a volume coedited with Kristina Busse,Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, wasreleased in October 2006 from McFarland.

Sheis a coeditor of the Transformative Works and Cultures, an open access journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.

Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi is faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson IntellectualProperty Law Clinic and professor of law. He holds expertise inintellectual property and copyright law. He was Pauline Ruvle MooreScholar in Public Law from 1981-82; Outstanding Faculty ScholarshipAwardee in 1982; and he received the AU Faculty Award for OutstandingContributions to Academic Development in 1996. He is a member of theSelden Society (state correspondent for Washington, D.C.). Previouslyhe was a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. trustee,1992-94; International Association for the Advancement of Teaching andResearch in Intellectual Property; National Zoological Park,Washington, D.C., Animal Welfare Board, 1986-present; Library ofCongress Advisory Committee on Copyright Registration and Deposit(ACCORD), 1993.

JonathanMcIntosh is a digital artist, remixer, photographer, curator and mediaactivist. He has worked on numerous new media and social justicerelated projects in the United States.

Jonathan's digital videowork focuses primarily on transforming corporate media images byremixing them to tell alternative political and cultural narratives.His Political Remix Video work has appeared in independent filmfestivals, on community television and at new media conferences. Mostrecently Jonathan gave a speech on Building a Critical Culture withPolitical Remix Video at Ars Electronica 2008 in Linz Austria as partof the New Cultural Economy Symposium. In February 2008, the Institutefor Multimedia Literacy invited Jonathan to curate and present a showof Political Remix Video works at the 24/7 DIY Video Summit at theUniversity of Southern California in Los Angeles. Jonathan was also aconsultant for the RemixAmerica.org online video remixing project whichlaunched in the summer of 2008. In July 2008 he was the leadfacilitator at the Fair Use Remix Institute (FURI) in Chicago, whichinstructed youth in both political remix video and critical medialiteracy.

Laura Murray is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the Department ofEnglish at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the coauthor (with SamTrosow) of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide(Between the Lines,2007), coming to this topic from research and teaching in the areas ofAboriginal Studies, American literature, and literary theory. Shelaunched faircopyright.ca in summer 2003, because so few copyrightresources were available in Canada for nonlawyers. From January to June2007, she was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Law and SocietyProgram at New York University.

ZahrStauffer teaches law and literature at the University of VirginiaSchool of Law. Stauffer went to Columbia Law School where she was aKent Scholar and served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal ofLaw and the Arts. Her Note on the tensions between legal and literaryconcepts in the context of postcolonial rewritings received the AndrewD. Fried Memorial Prize. As a first-year, Stauffer won the Young B.Smith prize for excellence in torts. Before going to law school,Stauffer earned her doctorate in Comparative Literature from HarvardUniversity, where her dissertation focused on appropriations ofShakespeare by Arab authors. Her research areas include advertising,intellectual property, law and literature, torts, and Arab and Africanliterature. Prior to joining UVa, Stauffer briefly practiced in the taxdepartment at Ropes and Gray in Boston.

Ann Shalleck

Ann Shalleck is director of the Women and the Law Program; the Women inInternational Program and professor of law. She holds expertise inclinical legal education, legal theory, Family Law and child welfare.Shalleck has been presenter at many conferences on clinical legaleducation; gender & the law; gender and international human rights.She organized a symposium on domestic violence and achieving genderequality. She has authored many books and articles on clinicaleducation, child welfare and women’s rights.

Melissa L. Tatum is a member of the faculty at theUniversity of Arizona, where she serves as Research Professor of Law andAssociate Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. For thepast several years, she has concentrated on issues involved incross-jurisdictional enforcement of protection orders. She has written numerousarticles on the topic, taught at the National Tribal Judicial Center, andpresented workshops for judges, attorneys, law enforcement, and victimadvocates. Professor Tatum also served as a judge on the Southwest IntertribalCourt of Appeals from 1999-2006 and is the general editor of the Mvskoke LawReporter, which contains the court decisions of the Muscogee (Creek) Nationfrom 1832-present. Her interest in filk and intellectual property issues isboth personal and professional.

Professionally, she teaches and writes in the area ofgroup rights, approaching IP issues from the perspective of Indian andIndigenous rights. Personally, she is herself a filker with over three dozensongs to her credit, several of which have been published.

TishaTurk is a member of the English faculty at the University of Minnesota,Morris, where she teaches courses in writing, composition studies,creative nonfiction, the novel, and narrative theory. Recently she hasbegun to work on the emerging interdisciplinary field of fan studies,while maintaining strong ties to narrative theory, rhetoricalcriticism, and several subsets of composition studies, including visualand multimodal literacies.

Rebecca Tushnet

Rebecca Tushnet teaches copyright, trademark, and advertising law at Georgetown University. She has advised and represented several fan fiction websites in disputes with copyright and trademark owners. Tushnet is a member of the board of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks.