Popular Culture Review Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2014 | Page 147

CONTRIBUTORS G arland D. Beasley is a PhD student at the University o f Nevada Las Vegas. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Roanoke College and an M.A. in English Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focus is eighteenth-century British literature with an emphasis on the Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe. Other areas of interest include eighteenth-century aesthetics and dissenting writers of the period. Julian Cha received his Ph.D. in Theatre & Performance Studies from UCLA where he specialized in Asian-American theatre. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches a course on multicultural theatre. His areas of interest are Asian-American theatre, film, and popular culture. He has published articles on Keanu Reeves in Studies in Popular Culture and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy in Americana: The Journal o f American Popular Culture (1900-Present). Alesa Gawlik is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University. She is currently completing her MA in French and plans to study popular culture and cultural exchange through literature in France after graduation this May. Denis