List of Contributors
Jan Baetens has a Ph.D. in contemporary French Literature and teaches visual
culture at the universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Maastricht (Holland). He has
published and edited some twenty books, including “Herge ecrivain” (1987) and
“Fomies et politiques de la bande dessinee” (1998). He is currently working on a
series of photographic novels with the Czechian artist Milan Chlumsky.
Deborah Cibelli is an Assistant Professor at Nicholls State University where she
teaches art history.
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Ryan Professor of Film Studies, and Chair of the Film
Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His most recent books
include Film Genre 2000 and The Second Centwy o f Cinema (both from State
University of New York Press).
Jon Donlon teaches for the Center for the Study of Controversial Leisure. He is
cuiTently teaching and conducting research on belly dancing in Cyprus, Turkey.
Erika Engstrom is an associate professor in the Hank Greenspun School of
Communication, UNLV.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Associate professor of Film Studies in the
Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her most recent
books include The Films o f Chantal Akennan (Flicks Books) and Troping the Body:
Gender, Etiquette and Peiformance (Southern Illinois University Press).
Daniel Grassian graduated from Wesleyan University with Honors in English
and Psychology. He subsequently received an M. A. in English at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While teaching English courses at Chapel Hill, he
is cunently working on a Ph.D., focusing upon contemporaiy American literature,
independent film, technology and popular culture.
Joy Y. Nishie is a graduate student in the Hank G reenspun School of
Communication at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has a B.A. in
journalism and American studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a
B.S. in secondary education from UNLV.