Connie Brownson is the Awards and Grants Coordinator for the Vice President
for Research at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing a
book about women marines, which examines the intersection of gender,
structure, and power.
J. Robert Craig (PhD 1981 University of Missouri-Columbia) teaches in the
Broadcast & Cinematic Arts department at Central Michigan University, Mt.
Pleasant, MI. Dr. Craig teaches a variety of film study classes in addition to
electronic media law. He is currently working on a book discussing the role of
the origin story in horror films featuring the classic Universal monsters.
Simone Dennis is an anthropologist working at the University of Adelaide,
where she teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her
current research interests, which are all characterized by phenomenologically
informed approaches, include the multi-sensual, embodied and emotional
experiences that people have of food and eating, smoking, sexual interaction,
travel and music.
Matts Djos was awarded a PhD in English from Texas A&M University in
1975, and has taught American literature as a professor of English at Mesa State
College in Grand Junction, Colorado for nearly thirty years. He has published
extensively on the literature of addiction, has written under contract for a
number of academic publishers, and has free-lanced commercially on a wide
variety of topics.
Harold Dorton is assistant professor of sociology at Texas State University,
where he has teaching and research interests in popular culture, social
psychology, and social theory. He lives in Austin, TX.
Melanie Ann Hanson is an assistant professor and Coordinator of English
Education at Sam Houston State University. She is a member of SAA and
NCTE and a 30-year veteran in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. Her
book Decapitation and Disgorgement: the Female Body's Text in Early Modern
English Drama and Poetry comes out in 2006 (Ibidem Studies, publisher).
Dennis Russell is an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where he
specializes in mass-mediated popular culture and film, literary and music
analysis. Russell has published articles in Popular Culture Review, Studies in
Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Southwestern Mass
Communication Journal, and Communications and the Law.