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SUSANNE EICHNER is associate professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Aarhus University. She employs a cross-media approach focusing on reception aesthetics and audience research, media sociology, production ecology, and popular (serial) culture. She is co-director of the Centre for Transnational Media Research and co-director of the Cultural Transformations Research Programme. Her publications include Agency and Media Reception (Springer, 2014), Transnationale
Serienkultur [Transnational Serial Culture] (co-editor, Springer, 2013) and Fernsehen: Europäische Perspektiven [Television: European Perspectives] (co-editor, UVK, 2014).
E-mail: seichner@cc.au.dk
ANDREA ESSER is professor of media and globalisation at the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton, London, and director of the AHRC-funded Media Across Borders network. Her research considers all aspects of the transnationalisation of television: distribution, cross-border consumption, and reception, television format adaptation, and global production networks. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited Media Across Borders: Localising
TV, Film and Video Games (with I. Smith & M. Bernal-Merino, Routledge, 2016). In
2015, she spent six months at Aarhus University as a guest researcher on the project,
What Makes Danish TV Drama Series Travel?, funded by the Independent Research
Fund Denmark. E-mail: a.esser@roehampton.ac.uk
USHMA CHAUHAN JACOBSEN is associate professor at the Department of English at Aarhus University. Trained as an anthropologist, she has earlier worked as a curator and project manager with museums and national and international non-governmental organisations in Tanzania, Denmark, and Nepal. Her current research areas include professional and transcultural communication, English as an international/global language, cosmopolitanism, and language use in the creative industries. She has earlier published her work in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Language and
Intercultural Communication, and Critical Studies in Television. E-mail: ucj@cc.au.dk
PIA MAJBRITT JENSEN is associate professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism and co-director of the Media, Communication and Society Research Pro-gramme and the Centre for Transnational Media Research at Aarhus University. An audience, industry, and production scholar, her current research interests and projects include an EU Horizon2020 project on European crime narratives and an Independ-ent Research Fund Denmark project on the production and reception of audiovisual
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fiction for children. She has published widely and co-edited New Patterns in Global
Television Formats (Intellect, 2016) and Danish Television Drama: Global lessons from a small nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). E-mail: piamj@cc.au.dk
YEŞİM KAPTAN is assistant professor at the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University, Ohio. Her research interests are transnational media, global com-munication, culture industries, identity politics, advertising, and consumer culture. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communi-cation (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for CommuniCommuni-cation at the University of Pennsylvania and at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University in Denmark. She has published research in the International Journal of
Communica-tion, Popular CommunicaCommunica-tion, Journal of Consumer Culture, and other English and
Turkish media journals and books. E-mail: ykaptan@kent.edu
MARION MCCUTCHEON is research associate at the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology and honorary research fellow at the University of Wollongong’s C3P Research Centre for Creative Critical Practice. A communications economist, she has worked within the federal government in telecommunications and broadcasting policy advisory and research roles. Her current research interests include evaluating the economic and social benefits derived from cultural and creative goods and services – in particular, crime drama series – and the role of the creative industries in economic systems. E-mail: marionmc@uow.edu.au
ALESSANDRA MELEIRO is associate professor at the Department of Art and Com-munication at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. She held a postdoc at the Media and Film Studies Programme at the University of London. She is the author of
The New Iranian Cinema: Art and social intervention (2006) and editor of two book
series with Escrituras on world cinema and the Brazilian film industry. Her research interests include the political economy of cinema, cultural policy, and interventions in the cultural and creative economy. In 2017, Meleiro was an affiliated researcher with the project, What Makes Danish TV Drama Series Travel? E-mail: ameleiro@ufscar.br
