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Chris Holmlund published a fourth anthology, The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, in 2014 with Wallflower Press

Steering Committee member Chris Holmlund published a fourth anthology, The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, in 2014 with Wallflower Press.  In 2014 and 2015 she was awarded honorary research professorships at Smith College in Northampton, MA and Lund University in Sweden. She is currently working on two books, about Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich and John Waters' Female Trouble, respectively, as well as co-editing an issue on Sexuality in Scandinavian Cinema for The Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. She continues to work with the largest international organization devoted to the study of film and media, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, now as Past President and Conference Program Committee member