Stephanie is a PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Canterbury. Stephanie's work crosses the areas of workplace discourse analysis; language, gender, and sexuality; and sports linguistics. Her current research examines the renegotiation of gender, sex and sexual identities within sports organisations.

Dr Kyle Harvey is a research fellow at Monash University whose work explores culture, media and social change in Australia and the United States. He has published widely on television history, migration, social movements and radical thought. Kyle is the coauthor of Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (Routledge, 2025) and author of American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). You can find him @kyle-harvey.bsky.social

Alex Cothren is a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University in Kaurna Yerta. He researches satire, climate fiction and arts for wellbeing. His collection of satirical short stories, Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, is out through Pink Shorts Press in July.

Dr Bradley J. Dixon is an academic in media and film at RMIT University. His research focuses on developments in social and new media technologies and their effects on art, culture, and everyday life. He recently completed a PhD at RMIT University with a thesis titled “Performing the Self: Parafictional Persona and the Comedian Comedy,” which examines several historical and contemporary examples of comedians playing themselves across television, film, web series, and social media performance. His publications include scholarly and non-scholarly works covering a range of topics in media and cultural studies. He is co-director of Screen Inquisition and a founding member of the Australian Comedy Studies Collective.

You can find Bradley at https://bradleyjdixon.me/ 

Suchi is a PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne, researching stand-up comedy in India. Her study focuses upon how politics and stand-up impact upon each other. She is creating data through interviews, ethnographic study, and textual analysis.

Born and raised in India, she moved to Melbourne eighteen years ago and has worked in TAFE and tertiary education. In her other life in India, she worked in advertising, journalism, and public relations. She graduated from Monash University with a master’s degree in Communication & Media Studies in 2018. Earlier in India, she graduated with a master’s degree in Comparative Literature. She lives in suburban Melbourne with her husband and two children. Suchi's recent work has been published in Open Library of Humanities (2024) with the "Humour as a Human Right" special issue series. 

Dr Fergus Edwards is a lecturer in English at the School of Humanities in the College of Arts, Law and Education.
Fergus’s research focuses on theatre from the mid-twentieth century onwards, with a particular concentration on the works of Tom Stoppard and the staging of philosophy. His interest in the communication of complex ideas has generated work involving subjects as diverse as performative linguistics, theories of humour, the philosophy of ethics, and chaos theory.

You can find Fergus at [email protected]