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Contributors 147 List of C ontributors Linda M. Ambrose is associate professor and chair of the History Department at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her publications in rural women’s history include two books and several articles that have appeared in the journals Ontario History, Agricultureal History and Historical Studies in Education. Sheri Chinen Biesen, Assistant Professor (PhD University of Texas at Austin, MA u s e School of Cinema-Television) at Rowan University and author of Film Noir and World War II: Hollywood’s Hard-Boiled Homefiont, has published in Film & History, Literature/Film Quarterly, Popular Culture Review and Quarterly Review o f Film & Video. Robin Blyn is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Florida, where she teaches courses in literature, theory, and creative writing. She is currently in the process of completing Freak Fictions, a book-length study of the interface between narrative and spectacle culture. Her work has appeared in such journals as Arizona Quarterly and NARRATIVE. Bert C ardullo is Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the regular film critic for The Hudson Review. A critic and dramatuig as well as an editor and translator, he has published sixteen books, the most recent of which are Theater o f the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology (Yale, 2001) and Practical Film Criticism: An Enlightened Approach to Moviegoing (Edwin Mellen, 1999). J. R obert C raig teaches broadcast and cable law, film history, film genre, and non-fiction film courses at Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Dr. Craig (Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981) is a professor in the university’s department of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, where he served as department Chairperson from 1993-1996. He is presently the Graduate Program Director for the department as well as the Film and Media division head of the International Association on the Fantastic in the Arts. Dr. Craig has published studies in Communications and the Law, Journal o f Popular Film and Television, Journal o f Evolutionary Psychology, Feedback, Journal o f the Fantastic in the Arts, and Literature/Film Quarterly, as well as prior articles in Popular Culture Review. Denise DiPuccio is currently a professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she teaches and researches in the area of Hispanic theater. Her book. Communicating Myths o f the Golden Age Comedia, was published