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Dennis H. Barbour is Associate Professor and former Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, IN. He received his Ph.D. in American literature from Auburn University and his MA and BA in English from Indiana State University. He has published articles on topics in American literature and on the pedagogy of business writing. He has also published an article on the Mad Max trilogy and is working on a book on heroism in apocalyptic film. In addition to a lifelong interest in science fiction/fantasy, he also teaches courses in Popular Culture, the Bible as Literature, and seminars on special topics. He is a fanatical fan of the San Francisco Giants. He is married to an editor, Nancy, has two adult daughters living in Chicago, a Bichon, West Highland terrier, and a red tabby. He and his wife own a cottage in Burgundy where they love to spend time enjoying the wine country and which is a rental property when they are not vacationing in France. Gregory A. Borchard is an associate professor in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he is also the school's graduate coordinator. His research focuses on press history, and he has published books and articles on nineteenth-century journalism, including Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley for Southern Illinois University Press (2011). He teaches media history, and reporting and writing courses. In the summer 2009 issue of Popular Culture Review, colleagues Lawrence Mullen, Anthony Ferri, and he published “The Simplification of NFL Team Logos: Television and Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s.” Cathy M. Ceccio is an administrator at Evant Inc. in Stow, Ohio. She received an M. A. in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a M.S.N. from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. Joseph F. Ceccio is professor of English and graduate studies coordinator at the University of Akron in Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Steven J. Ingeman received his MA in philosophy from Indiana University and his MLIS from the University of Tennessee. He works in the areas of ancient Greek philosophy, critical thinking, information theory, and philosophy of technology. Recently he collaborated with H. Peter Steeves on a series of humorous Platonic dialogues that address contemporary issues. He currently lives in Falls Church, Virginia. Fernando Angel Moreno teaches Literary Theory at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). He is the author of various essays on science fiction and other popular genres, as well as a book, Teoria de la literatura de ciencia ficcio