Kwakiutl L. Dreher, PhD is an assistant professor of English and ethnic studies
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include African
American literature since 1970, including auto/biography, film, visual, and
popular culture, as well as mass marketed popular literature (romance). She has
published A Eulogy for Tyrell Musgrove: The Disremembered Child in Marc
Forster’s Monster's Ball in Film Criticism.
Robert W. Duff is a professor of sociology at the University of Portland. He has
published work on the culture of retirement communities, taxi-dance halls, and
transgender cabarets. His current research examines the social impact of
globalization and includes an article with Lawrence K. Hong, The Costs of
Going Global: The Cases of Shanghai and Bangkok, Proteus (2006).
Daniel F. Ferreras teaches French, Spanish, and comparative literatures at
West Virginia University. His work on the Fantastic, the detective story,
marginalized genres, and popular culture issues has appeared in French
Literature Series, Hispania, Politica Lecturay signo, and Excavatio.
Lawrence K. Hong is a professor and chair of the Sociology Department at
California State University, Los Angeles. He has co-authored with Robert W.
Duff on a number of articles on Asia, and has recently published a series of
photo-essays on popular culture for Eye-Ai, a magazine published in Tokyo.
William Petty taught in the Department of English and the Extended Campus at
Oregon State University. His research interests included modem/postmodem
American literature, autobiography, and baseball. He received his PhD in
modem/postmodem American literature from the University of Oregon in 1994.
He lived in Eugene, Oregon and is survived by his partner of 22 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, where he
specializes in mass-mediated popular culture and film, literary and music
analysis. Russell has published articles in Popular Culture Review, Studies in
Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Southwestern Mass
Communication Journal, and Communications and the Law.
Arthur Saniotis received his PhD in anthropology at the University of
Adelaide. His research interests are comparative religion, peace studies,
ecology, and medical anthropology. He is presently teaching in the Department
of English, College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology at Christian University of
Thailand.