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