Popular Culture Review Vol. 8, No. 2, August 1997 | Page 153

Contributors 149 Dennis Russell is associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University. Russell, who holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah, specializes in popular culture. First Amendment law, and mass media history. Dan Shiffman is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Idaho State University. His research focuses on ethnicity and American Modernism and ethnicity and popular culture. He has previously published articles in Popular Culture Review and Studies in Popular Culture and has articles forthcoming in MELUS and Studies in American Humor.