Brook Brayman is a master’s student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
His interests are gender studies in science fiction and the work of Octavia
Butler, Frank Herbert, and other major science fiction authors. He teaches high
school, coaches swimming, and is a proud husband and father of three.
Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory
School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for thirty years. Ron
also teaches history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is
the author of Class at Bat, Gender on Deck, and Race in the Hole: A Line-Up of
Essays on Twentieth-Centwy Culture and America's Game (McFarland, 2003),
and co-editor of James T. Farrell’s Dreaming Baseball (Kent State University
Press, 2007).
J. Robert Craig (Ph University of Missouri) is a Professor in the School of
Broadcast & Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan University, where he teaches
film studies courses in both fiction and nonfiction genres. Dr. Craig has
published articles most recently in Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular
Culture, and Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
James H. Forse is Professor of History and Theatre at Bowling Green State
University. His research centers on the history of Tudor theatre. His most recent
articles are “Getting Your Name Out There: Traveling Acting Companies and
Aristocratic Prestige in Tudor England,” Quidditas, 26 (2006,
http://humanities.byu.edu/rmmra), “Secularizing the Saint: The Journey of St.
George from Feast Day to Horse Race,” Popular Culture Review, 16 (2005), and
“Performance Equals Privilege: How Companies Performing at Court Reflect
Elizabeth’s Privy Counselors,” SRASP, 28 (2005).
Amy
Green is a PhD student in literature at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. She has several book and play reviews forthcoming as well as an article
to appear in Papers on Language and Literature in 2008. She enjoys
investigating how American popular culture reinvents classic literary themes
and expresses society’s darkest fears.
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Shaorong Huang, PhD is an associate professor of English and communication
at Raymond Walters College of University of Cincinnati. His publications
include a research book. To Rebel Is Justified: A Rhetorical Study of China's
Cultural Revolution Movement, 1966-1969, twelve academic journal articles,
and two book chapters on political rhetoric and cultural studies.
Chris Kamerbeek is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is currently working on a dissertation
tentatively titled The Anarchist and the Elephant, which investigates the