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Modem/Postmodem American Literature from the University of Oregon in 1994.
He lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his partner of twenty years, Katie, and their two
children, Hannah and James.
Dennis Russell is an Associate Professor in the Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He specializes
in mass-mediated popular culture and has piblished in, along with Popular
Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, and
Southwestern Mass Communications and the Law.
Robert Sickels earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Nevada in Reno.
He is currently an Associate Professor of American Film and Popular Culture at
Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he teaches courses on film
genres, major figures in cinema, and digital production. In addition to being the
Film and Television Review Editor for Film & History, he has published
numerous articles and reviews in a variety of journals, including Journal o f
Popular Culture, Journal o f Popular Film & Television, and Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction.
B.R. Smith is a professor in the Broadcast and Cinematic Department at Central
Michigan University, where he teaches courses in history and appreciation of
cinema, film directors, and film genres. His research has been published in
Popular Culture Review, Journal o f Evolutionary Psychology, Journal o f the
Fantastic in the Arts, Communications and the Law, and Feedback.
Richard A. Voeltz is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of
History and government at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma where he
teaches courses in Humanities, Film, Popular Culture, British History, and
Modem European History.
Lynda Walsh is an Assistant Professor of English at the New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology. Her research focuses on the intersection of pragmatics,
the rhetoric of science, and American literatures.
G. Christopher Williams is an Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
His research interests include narratology,
interactive narrative, and postmodern identity. He has published on various films
in journals such asF/7/w Criticism and Post Script.