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154 Popular Culture Review Addison’s and Steele’s Spectator is forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press (2005). Sergio Rizzo is one of the many that make up the great reserve army of imemployed or marginally employed scholars. For several years, he has taught classes in composition, American literature, film, and cultural criticism. He has published on William Carlos Williams and such popular culture topics as presidents’ wives, Winona Ryder in The Crucible, and the semiotics of American money. Currently, he is working on the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the governor of California and the rise of postmodern fascism. Roberta Sabbath is adjunct faculty in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her teaching includes world literature, reflecting her comparatist interests. She has chaired several panels nationally on the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an as literary works. Current projects include composition assessment, developing online classes, and the Women’s Research Institute. Mel Seesholtz is tenured in the English Department at Penn State Abington College, and also teaches in the American Studies and Science, Technology, and Society programs. He has authored several print and online articles about marriage equality and the political power of the evangelical Christian Right. Laurens Tan practices art and design in Sydney, Australia. His recently completed doctoral thesis, “The Architecture of Risk,” is a prognosis of projects based on game theory, entertainment design technology, and architecture. His new works link the semiotics of mathematical relationships in aesthetic form and engineering structure. He is Head of School at the Raffles KvB Institute of Technology in Sydney.