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C ontributors
Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory
School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also holds a position as adjunct profes
sor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia campus. Briley’s work on
film has appeared in such journals as Film and History, The History Teacher, Film/
Literature Quarterly, and Cineaste. He is also the author of Class at Bat, Gender
on Deck and Race in the Hole: A Line-up o f Essays on Twentieth Century Culture
and America's Game (McFurland, 2003).
Philip Dubuisson Castille is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Eastern
Washington University.
J. R obert C raig teaches broadcast and cable law as well as a variety of film study
courses in the department of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan
University. Dr. Craig has been the Film and Media division head of the Interna
tional Association for the Fantastic in the Arts since 2000. His most recent publica
tions have been included in Journal o f the Fantastic in the Arts, Literature/Film
Quarterly, and Popular Culture Review. He recently was a guest editor for two
issues of Journal o f the Fantastic in the Arts.
Adina C iugureanu is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at
Ovidius University Constanta, Romania. She is the author of High Modernist Po
etic Discourse (1997), a study on modernist poetry, and the co-author of Multiple
Perspectives (1998), a collection of essays on post-war British literature. Her most
recent publication is The Boomerang Effect (2002), concerned with the European
roots of American popular culture. She has also published a large number of ar
ticles and essays, mainly on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century writers
and is currently working on a study in modernist fiction.
M atts G. Djos is Professor of English at Mesa State College in Grand Junction,
Colorado. He has published extensively on the literature of addiction. He was
awarded a Bachelor of Arts in English and received teacher certification from the
University of Washington in 1961, a Master of Arts in English from the University
of Idaho in 1968, and Ph.D. in English from Texas A&M University in 1975.
Scott H arris is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University. He is
interested in the analysis of personal relationship stories told in popular culture
and everyday life. His articles on marriage and close relationships have appeared
in Symbolic Interaction, Journal o f Contemporary Ethnography, and Perspectives
on Social Problems.