Editorial Board Profiles
| Dr Michelle Devereaux: Managing Editor-in-Chief | |
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Dr Michelle Devereaux was made Managing Editor-in-Chief of Exchanges in December 2025 after serving on the editorial board since 2022. She is a former Leverhulme Trust Early Career postdoctoral fellow in film and television at the University of Warwick and received her PhD in film studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. Her monograph, The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film, was published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press, and she has published research in Screen, Film Quarterly, The Bloomsbury Guide to Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind (University of Exeter Press, 2023). Michelle's research interests include romantic and post-romantic philosophy, contemporary screen culture, gender and feminist theory, film and television aesthetics, genre studies, and affect and emotion studies. She is also a longtime board member of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and prior to her academic career worked extensively as an editor for various print and web publications in North America and the UK. |
| Dr Vanja Baltić | |
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Vanja Baltić completed her PhD research in Visual, Performing and Media Arts, Department of the Arts, at the University of Bologna and in Theatre Science and Intermediality, Faculty of Arts, Department of Literature, at the University of Antwerp, (joint PhD degree, 2022). Her PhD research proposes to retrace the concept of the tragic through the adoption of excess in the poetics of contemporary theatre direction. During her academic studies, she has focused her main interests on 20th-century and contemporary theatre direction and dramaturgy. She currently works as a teaching tutor at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna. |
| Dr Marcos Estrada | |
 M.Estrada.1@warwick.ac.uk Department of Sociology School of Social Sciences University of Warwick, UK |
Dr Marcos Estrada has been contributing as an editor for Exchanges since 2017, making him the longest-serving editor from Warwick University. His interests include, but are not limited to, transnationalism, contemporary theories, and research methods. While his expertise focuses on everyday issues spanning borders, he is also interested in pressing social issues related to ageing; health, and access to health care; and the future of public pensions. As many countries grapple with aging populations and workforce reductions, often leading to changes in public pension rules, conducting research on public health and ageing becomes increasingly critical. |
| Dr Julián Harruch-Morales | |
 Julian.harruch-morales@warwick.ac.uk School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Warwick, UK |
Julián Harruch is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick. He specialises in issues of race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism, with a focus on Latin America. His work has been published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research. More broadly, his research interests include Latin American intellectual history and literatures, normative political philosophy, and critical theory, especially Marxism. |
| Dr Lydia Ayame Hiraide | |
 lydia@hiraide.co.uk Graduate School of International Peace Studies Soka University, Tokyo, Japan |
Dr Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ), a Teaching Fellow in the department of Politics and International Relations at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer in the Politics department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Lydia Ayame holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her research interests include social movements, as well as the politics of identity, inequality, and climate change. |
| Dr Ignaas Jimidar | |
 ignaas.jimidar@vub.be CHIS (Chemical Engineering) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Ignaas Jimidar was born in Suriname, where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. In 2016 he was awarded a Master of Science degree in Applied Physics by the University of Twente. He received his PhD from the University of Twente and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2021. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on understanding the relevant interaction forces that lead to the self-organisation of microspheres. This understanding is also used to develop methods that manipulate these interaction forces to attain directed assembly of microspheres on micromachined devices for applications centred around liquid chromatography. His research interests include soft matter physics, tribocharging, granular materials, and microfluidic applications. |
| Dr Sven van Kerckhoven | |
 Sven.Van.Kerckhoven@vub.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Dr van Kerckhoven is an Vice-Dean for Education at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the KULeuven, where he also obtained Master degrees in Business Economics and Political Sciences. His research interests are focused on global economic governance and international institutions. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University and the University of Warwick (Rutherford fellowship) and a visiting professor at KULeuven. |
| Dr Kyung-Hye Kim | |
 kyunghye.kim@dgu.ac.kr Dongguk University, South Korea |
Kyung Hye Kim is assistant professor at Dongguk University, South Korea. Her academic interests lie in corpus-based translation studies, critical discourse analysis, and multilingualism in media translation. Her publications include ‘Renarrating the Victims of WWII through Translation: So Far from the Bamboo Grove and Yoko Iyagi’ (Target 2017), ‘Retranslation as a socially engaged activity: in the case of Rape of Nanking’ (Perspectives 2018), and ‘Museum Translation as a political act: narrative engagement for affective experiences in the War and Women’s Human Rights Museum in Seoul’ (Museum Management and Curatorship 2020). She is a member of Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network and an external partner of Global Health at the European University Alliance Circle U. She is also Chair of Conference Committee of IATIS, the International Association for Translation & Intercultural Studies, and Deputy Director of Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. |
| Dr Salvatore Monteleone | |
 salvatore.monteleone@unicusano.it Niccolò Cusano University, Italy |
Salvatore is a research fellow at the Engineering Department, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy). Prior to this he was a researcher at CY Cergy Paris University (France). He holds a PhD in Communications and Computer Engineering from the University of Catania (Italy). His general research area covers embedded systems design & applications with contributions mainly focused on low-power design, Network-on-Chip architectures, and Cyber-Physical Systems. Salvatore is an affiliated member of the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC). He is also a member of the Internet of Things and the Sustainable ICT communities from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). |
| Aditi Maddali | |
 aditi.maddali@gmail.com Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India |
Aditi Maddali is a doctoral candidate at the Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Her doctoral work examines the political ethics of the self at the interstices of religion. She is a feminist researcher interested in bringing everyday life and praxis into dialogue. She also teaches gender studies, research practice, and urban studies, and is a non-fiction media producer. |
| Dr Ute Oswald | |
 u.oswald3@warwick.ac.uk Centre for the History of Medicine University of Warwick, UK |
Ute Oswald is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM) at the University of Warwick. She is a social historian of psychiatry, and her PhD explored the role of recreation in nineteenth-century asylums, resulting in a peer-reviewed article in Medizinhistorisches Journal. She is expanding this research with a special focus on asylum theatricals and the visual and material culture of asylum recreation more broadly, whilst writing a monograph based on her thesis findings. In addition, she has started a new postdoctoral project on religion in asylums and is contributing a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion and Medical Humanities (Abingdon/New York, 2024). She is a member of the executive committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ History of Medicine Special Interest Group and is keen to bring historians, clinicians and the public into dialogue about the impact of psychosocial therapies past, present and future. |
| Shilpi Pandey | |
 shilpi.pandey@vub.be Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
Shilpi Pandey is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She completed her LL.B. from NLUJ, India. She also holds an LL.M. in International Law and International Relations (University of Kent), and Advanced LL.M. in International and European (IES, VUB). Her PhD research takes an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the rights of minority women from the perspective of freedom of religion and comparative secularism and its impact on their socio-economic rights. Her interests include Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), post-colonialism, freedom of religion and culture, multiculturalism, equality, and diversity. |
| Dr Roy Rozario | |
 dr.royrozario@gmail.com Deakin University, Australia |
Roy is a life-long learner with diverse academic and work experiences. He completed his PhD at Monash University and worked for four years in the Faculty of Education, was the Vice President and Research Education Officer for Monash Graduate Association, and the Treasurer and Leader for MERC (Monash Education Research Community). Additionally, he has experience in safety, mental-health, and customer service in Logistical Industry. He worked for the Victorian (Australia) Department of Education in school settings and currently works as an academic staff at Deakin University, Melbourne. He possesses a Masters and M.Phil. Degree in Economics, M.Ed. (minor thesis), Masters by Research (Education), Grad.Dip.Ed, and Grad.Cert. Mathematics. His expertise is around mobile learning and teacher pedagogy. |
| Dr Victoria Sodré | |
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Victoria Sodré is a Research Fellow at the Chemistry Department, University of Warwick. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil), and a BSc. In Biology from the same institution. During her doctoral studies, Victoria explored diverse microbial and enzymatic strategies for the valorisation of lignin and lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Her research interests are developing new sustainable routes to produce chemicals from renewable feedstocks. In addition to her scientific research, Victoria is passionate about science communication, research integrity, and open access scientific publishing. |
| Jacob Thomas | |
 jacob.thomas.msa@gmail.com Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Monash University Melbourne, Australia |
Jacob Thomas (they/them) is an internationally recognised human rights advocate and multi-published researcher, specialising in LGBTIQA+ youth. At Monash University they have taught across Global Studies, Psychology, Counselling, and Public Health. Their research is broadly in the areas of queer health with a particular focus on trans and gender diverse youth, as well as building queer mental health interventions and professional training through community co-design. Jacob is particularly passionate about queering curricula, ensuring health practitioners are equipped with the necessary skills to work with LGBTIQA+ people, and publishing queer works across various disciplines. |
| Dr Gaz (Gareth) J Johnson: Managing Editor-in-Chief Emeritus | |
 gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) University of Warwick, UK |
Gareth served as Exchanges’ Editor-in-Chief from 2018 to 2025. With a doctorate in cultural academic publishing practices (NTU), he also possesses various other degrees in biomedical technology (SHU), information management (Sheffield) and research practice (NTU). His varied career includes extensive experience in running regional and national professional bodies, academic libraries, project management and applied research roles. He retains professional interests on power-relationships within and evolution of scholarly academic publication practice, within social theory and political economic frameworks. He has aptitudes in areas including academic writing, partner relationship management and effective communication praxis. An outspoken proponent for greater academic agency through scholar-led publishing, Gareth is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and regularly contributes to a various podcasts and vodcasts. |
