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K atja Hawlitschka received her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California,
and is now Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State College in Wayne, Ne
braska, where she teaches a variety of writing and literature classes, including
Cultural Studies, Film, and Mystery and Detective Fiction. She has published ar
ticles on writing and popular culture, and enjoys academic mysteries.
K athryn E. K uhn is Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University.
Her primary research areas are popular culture, gender, and personal narratives.
Her current research examines the importance of quiltmaking in contemporary
American women’s lives. Her most recent articles appeared in American Studies
and Quarterly Journal o f Ideology.
R ichard Lentz is an Associate Professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Jour
nalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He specializes in
mass-media history and is the author of the book Symbols, the News Magazines,
and Martin Luther King.
Alicia Willson-Metzger is Assistant Professor of Library Science/Access Services
Librarian at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Her re
search interests include giftedness in children’s literature, the novels of L.M. Mont
gomery, and access services issues in academic libraries.
David M etzger is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author of The Lost Cause o f Rhetoric (Southern Illi
nois University Press 1995), editor of Medievalism and Medieval Studies (Boydell
& Brewer 1998), Medievalism and Cultural Studies (Boydell & Brewer 1999),
and Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions o f Cultural Difference (KolKatan 2003).
M ark Moss is Chair of General Education and General Arts and Science at Sen
eca College in Toronto. He is the author of Manliness and Militarism, and is cur
rently working on two books. One deals with the increasing visual nature of his
tory and the other focuses on shopping as an entertainment experience. His article
on Ralph Lauren will be integrated into the latter.
Dennis Russell is an Associate Professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Jour
nalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He specializes in
mass-mediated popular culture and has published in, along with PCR, Studies in
Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Southwestern Mass Communica
tion Journal, and Communications and the Law.