Lindsey Barlow is in the English MA program at the University of Texas at
Arlington. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in English at Texas
A&M University. Previously, she has had flash fiction published in Oak Bend
Review. She is interested in the study of rhetoric and Jacques Lacon.
Dr. Jon Griffin Donlon was bom in the American Deep South. A practicing
artist and writer before returning to the University of Illinois to take his Ph.D. in
Leisure Studies, Donlon is now primarily an academic following an
international career. The Tokai University faculty member is very interested in
leisure and disaster recovery in addition to his continuing research in
controversial leisure & tourism, and leisure consumption. He wishes to
acknowledge the many useful contributions of his colleagues, especially his
friends and faculty partners at Tokai University.
Dr. Ellis Godard received his MA in Sociology and Government, with a minor
in philosophy, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia. He is
an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge,
where he primarily teaches courses in statistics and criminology. Dr. Godard’s
research focuses on patterns of social control among those who know relatively
little about each other, in various settings ranging from reality shows to
cyberspace.
Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson, who holds a Ph.D. in American culture with
concentrations in radio-television-film and popular culture from Bowling Green
State University, is Professor and Coordinator of Communications at Virginia
Wesleyan College, where she teaches courses in media studies and children’s
culture. She is the author of Images of Children in American Film and has
published four other books, three on Disney-related topics. She is a past
president of the American Culture Association and currently edits The Journal
of American Culture.
Philip C. Kolin, the Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters
at the University of Southern Mississippi, has published more than 40 books and
over 250 scholarly articles on American playvvrights, including Tennessee
Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Edward Albee, David Rabe,
August Wilson, and on Shakespeare. Among his books on Williams are The
Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Greenwood), Williams: A Streetcar Named
Desire (Cambridge UP), The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on
Fifteen American Playwrights (McFarland). He has also written a widely used
textbook on business writing. Successful Writing at Work, soon to be in its
Tenth Edition (Wadsworth/Cengage).