Contributors
Adam Cohen is an adjunct lecturer in New York City . He teaches at Marymount Manhattan College and within the CUNY public university system . His courses focus on graphic novels , multicultural American literature , and topics such as gender , sexuality , race and ethnicity within commodity culture .
Gavin Davies is an MA History graduate , whose topics of interest for future doctoral research include the archiving of video games as historical objects and representations of history in participatory media . He hopes that those determining the successes of his applications for funding are secretly ardent gaming fans at heart .
Brent Gibson is Professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor . He has published articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature , and his interests lie at the intersections of popular culture , American literature , and theology . He teaches an interdisciplinary Honors course and regularly presents papers at SWCCL and PCA .
Kathy Merlock Jackson is a professor of communication at Virginia Wesleyan College , where she specializes in media studies , animation , and child and youth culture . She has published many articles , reviews , and chapters and eight books , four of them on Disney-related topics . A former president of the American Culture Association , she edits The Journal of American Culture .
Katherine Jellison is Professor of History and Department of History chairperson at Ohio University . Her most recent book is It ’ s Our Day : America ’ s Love Affair with the White Wedding , 1945-2005 ( University Press of
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