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Contributors
Suzanne Becker is a graduate, with distinction, from the University of
Michigan-Dearbom, in women’s studies. She currently lives in the Boston area
where she pursues nonacademic forms of learning.
Steven C arter is the author of five books, including Leopards in the Temple:
Selected Essays 1990-2000. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow at two European
universities, he teaches at California State University, Bakersfield. He is also the
only two-time winner of Italy's Nnove Lettere International Poetry and Literature
Prize (essay category).
Gabriele Eckart is an associate professor of German and Spanish at Southeast
Missouri State University with a PhD. from the University of Minnesota (1993).
Scholarly publications include a book on Wolfgang Hilbig and articles on East
German literature and culture and about comparative literature.
Eric Jarvis is an associate professor of history at King’s University College at
the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He has published articles
on Pogo in Studies in American Culture, Studies in Popular Culture and the
New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is currently working on a book dealing with
Pogo and cold war liberal satire.
Matthew Kapell is the co-editor, with William G. Doty, of Jacking in to the
Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Inte