Pendergast T., Pendergast S. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Volume 5: U-Z

Подождите немного. Документ загружается.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

254

BLACK, Liza. Member of visiting faculty, Theatre Arts, Cornell

University, Ithaca, New York; author of an unpublished work titled

Movie Indians, 1941-1960.

BLANKENSHIP, Bethany. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Wash-

ington State University, Pullman, Washington; author of “Visualizing

Voice: Popular Songs in the Composition Course,” Washington

English Journal (1998).

BLUSTEIN, Rebecca. Freelance writer; student, University of Cali-

fornia, Los Angeles.

BODROGHKOZY, Aniko. Assistant professor of ﬁlm and media

studies, University of Alberta; author of Groove Tube: Sixties Televi-

sion and Youth Rebellion (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

BOND, Gregory. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Department of

History, University of Wisconsin—Madison.

BONE, Martyn. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Nottingham, England; writing dissertation on “sense of place” in

contemporary Southern literature.

BOOTH, Austin. Humanities specialist, State University of New

York at Buffalo.

BOWLER, Gerry. Social historian, Canada; fellow, Centre for the

Study of Christianity and Contemporary Culture.

BOYD, Anne. Assistant professor of American literature, University

of New Orleans; Ph.D. in American studies, Purdue University;

dissertation on nineteenth-century American women writers.

BREMSETH, Marlena E. Adjunct professor, Black Studies Pro-

gram, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia;

Ph.D. candidate in American studies.

BRENNAN, Carol. Freelance writer, Detroit, Michigan.

BREWER, Tony. B.A. in English, Indiana University; producer and

director of the audio horror series Hayward Sanitarium, National

Public Radio’s NPR Playhouse, 1994; actor, script writer, lyricist,

musician, and sound effects artist; has performed live radio theatre as

well as music and spoken-word presentations, and published numer-

ous articles, essays, stories, and poems.

BRODERSON, Deborah. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, De-

partment of Art History, Duke University; writing dissertation on the

history of playgrounds in the twentieth century.

BRODY, Michael. Freelance writer.

BROESKE, Pat H. Co-author, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story

(Dutton, 1996) and Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and

Death of Elvis Presley (Dutton, 1997).

BROWN, Robert J. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in history,

Syracuse University; author of Manipulating the Ether: The Power of

Broadcast Radio in Thirties America (McFarland & Company, 1998);

and of numerous articles on the history of broadcasting.

BROWN, Sharon. Instructor in American literature, State Universi-

ty of New York at Stony Brook; author of American Travel Narra-

tives as a Literary Genre from 1542-1832: The Art of a Perpetual

Journey (Edwin Mellen, 1993).

BUHLE, Paul. Visiting associate professor, American Civilization

Department, Brown University; written or edited twenty-one books,

including Popular Culture in America (University of Minnesota,

1987), Encyclopedia of the American Left (Garland/Oxford, 1990),

and Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (St.

Martin’s, 1997); frequent contributor to Journal of American History,

Village Voice, and the Nation.

BUNCH, Craig. Librarian, Coldspring-Oakhurst C.I.S.D. (Texas);

review editor, Popular Culture in Libraries (1991-96).

BURNETT, Stephen. Freelance writer; doctoral student, Depart-

ment of History, Carnegie Mellon University.

BURNS, Gary. Professor of communication, Northern Illinois Uni-

versity; co-editor of Making Television (Praeger, 1990), and editor of

journal, Popular Music and Society.

BURNS, Margaret. Freelance writer, Bloomington, Indiana.

CABRERA, Manuel V., Jr. Freelance writer; student, University of

California, Los Angeles.

CARE, Ross B. Freelance composer and author; writes music for

theater and ﬁlms; contributor, Scarlet Street, Sight and Sound, Film

Quarterly, and Performing Arts: Motion Pictures (Library of Con-

gress, 1998).

CARNEY, George O. Regents Professor of Geography, Oklahoma

State University, Stillwater; author of The Sounds of People and

Places: A Geography of American Folk and Popular Music (Rowman

& Littleﬁeld, 1994), Fast Food, Stock Cars, and Rock ’n’ Roll: Place

and Space in American Pop Culture (Rowman & Littleﬁeld, 1995),

and Baseball, Barns, and Bluegrass: A Geography of American

Folklife (Rowman & Littleﬁeld, 1998); contributor of articles to

Journal of Cultural Geography, Journal of Geography, and Material

Culture.

CARPENTER, Gerald. Contributing editor, Santa Barbara Inde-

pendent; lifestyle editor, Goleta Valley Voice; Ph.D., French History,

University of California.

CAST, Anthony. Instructor of rhetoric, University of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign.

CASTRO, Rafaela. Humanities/social sciences librarian, Shields

Library, University of California, Davis; author of ‘‘Latino Litera-

ture’’ in What Do I Read Next?: Multicultural Literature (Gale,

1997), and Dictionary of Chicano Folklore (ABC-Clio, 2000).

CHAMBERS, Jason. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in history,

The Ohio State University.

CHANDLER, Chris. Award-winning broadcast journalist; broad-

cast historian and collector.

CHAPMAN, Michael K. Freelance writer; graduate student, Histo-

ry, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

CHAPMAN, Roger. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, Bowling

Green State University.

CHIASSON, Lloyd, Jr. Professor, Department of Mass Communi-

cations, Nicholls State University; co-author of Reporter’s Notebook,

a journalism interactive computer textbook; editor and co-author of

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORSENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

255

The Press in Times of Crisis, The Press on Trial, and Three Centuries

of American Media.

CIASULLO, Ann M. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, English,

University of Kentucky, Lexington; writing dissertation on twentieth-

century popular culture interpretations of nineteenth-century Ameri-

can literary narratives.

CLARK, Dylan. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in anthropology,

University of Washington, Seattle; specialist in American ethnogra-

phy, urban culture, youth subcultures, and culture studies.

CLARK, Frank. Freelance writer; graduate work in history at

University of Maine; co-author of Around Somersworth; contributor

to newspapers and magazines; presenter at Northeast Popular Culture

Association meetings; technical writer (software, 1996-99).

CLARK, Randy. Freelance writer.

COBANE, Craig T. Assistant professor, Political Science, Culver-

Stockton College, Canton, Missouri; contributor, ‘‘PS: Political Sci-

ence and Politics,’’ International Journal, Journal of Criminal Jus-

tice Education.

COFFEY, Dan. Reference librarian, Lockwood Memorial Library,

State University of New York at Buffalo; music critic, City Newspa-

per (Rochester, N.Y.).

COHEN, Adam Max. Member of Department of English, Universi-

ty of Virginia; author of ‘‘The Nature of Genius: Blake, Einstein, and

Theories of Relativity,’’ The Wordworth Circle (1999).

COHEN, Toby I. Graduate of The Ohio State University and

Harvard Graduate School of Education; retired teacher; writes about

the movies and stars of the golden age of Hollywood; author of an

unpublished biography on Claude Rains.

COKAL, Susann. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

California—Berkeley; writing dissertation on incest and narra-

tive design.

COKER, Jeffrey W. Freelance writer; graduate student, Department

of History, Ohio University, Athens.

COLETTA, Charles A., Jr. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate,

American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University.

COLLINGS, Michael R. Professor of English, director of creative

writing, and poet-in-residence at Seaver College, Pepperdine Univer-

sity; author of multiple volumes of scholarship, criticism, bibliog-

raphy, and poetry.

COLLINS, Willie. Ph.D. Cultural specialist and CEO of the Consor-

tium for California Cultural Conservation, Oakland, California; au-

thor of ‘‘California Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1942-1972: A

Diversity of Styles’’ in California Soul: Music of African Americans

in the West (University of California Press, 1998); contributor of

articles on African-American music and culture to scholarly journals.

CONSALVO, Mia L. Graduate instructor, School of Journalism and

Mass Communication, University of Iowa; author of ‘‘Hegemony,

Domestic Violence and Cops: A Critique of Concordance,’’ Journal

of Popular Film & Television (Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 1998).

COOKE, Douglas. Freelance writer, Buffalo, New York; B.A.

(English), M.A. (classics), M.L.S.

COOPER, B. Lee. Provost and vice president for Academic Affairs,

University of Great Falls, Montana. Author of twelve books, includ-

ing Images of American Society in Popular Music (Nelson-Hall,

1982), A Resource Guide to Themes in Contemporary Song Lyrics,

1950-1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986), Popular Music Perspectives

(Popular Press, 1991), and Rock Music in American Popular Culture,

3 volumes (Haworth Press, 1995, 1997, 1999); contributor of articles

and reviews to Popular Music and Society, Journal of American

Culture, Rock and Blues News, and other scholarly journals and music

magazines.

CORONADO, ViBrina. Clothing designer and researcher, most

recently in beauty contests and Native American and Latina/o per-

formance; M.A. in performance studies, New York University;

Ph.D. candidate, Theater, with emphasis on costume and popular

entertainments.

COTTRELL, Robert C. Professor of history and American studies,

California State University, Chico; author of Izzy: A Biography of I.F.

Stone (Rutgers University Press, 1992) and The Social Gospel of E.

Nicholas Comfort: Founder of the Oklahoma School of Religion

(University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

CREEKMUR, Corey K. Assistant professor of English, University

of Iowa; co-editor, Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays

on Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 1995); author of essays

and reviews in The Road Movie Book (Routledge, 1998), Oscar

Micheaux and His Circle (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999), Film

Quarterly, Wide Angle, The Hitchcock Annual, Discourse, and

elsewhere.

CREPEAU, Richard C. Professor of history, University of Central

Florida; specializes in Sport in America.

CULLEN, Jim. Preceptor in expository writing, Harvard University;

author of The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past

(Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995); The Art of Democracy: A

Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States (Monthly

Review Press, 1996); and Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and

the American Tradition (HarperCollins, 1997).

CURTIS, Susan. Professor of history and director of the American

Studies Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; author

of A Consuming Faith: the Social Gospel and Modern American

Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), Dancing to a Black

Man’s Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (University of Missouri Press,

1994), and The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (Universi-

ty of Missouri Press, 1998).

DAVIS, Glyn. Lecturer in media and cultural studies, College of

Ripon and York St. John; Ph.D. candidate, University of Sussex;

papers published on lesbian and gay ﬁlm, and contemporary Holly-

wood cinema.

DAVIS, Janet M. Assistant professor of American studies, Universi-

ty of Texas at Austin; author of an unpublished work titled The

Human Menagerie: The Circus and American Culture at the Turn of

the Century.

DEANE, Pamala S. M.A.; independent writer and scholar, Lanham,

Maryland.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

256

DECHERT, S. Renee. Assistant professor of English, Northwest

College; author of Larry McMurtry and the Western: The Rhetoric of

Novelization (1997).

DEITRICK, John. Freelance writer.

DIEM, Gordon Neal, D.A. Primary associate, Advance Education

and Development Institute, and assistant professor of political sci-

ence, North Carolina Central University.

DIGBY-JUNGER, Richard. Professor of English, Western Michi-

gan University; author of The Journalist as Reformer: Henry Demarest

Lloyd and Wealth Against Commonwealth (Greenwood Press, 1996).

DiMAURO, Laurie. Writer and editor specializing in biographical

and literary reference, Saline, Michigan.

DOHERTY, John J. Librarian and freelance writer, Flagstaff,

Arizona.

DOMINA, Thurston. Freelance writer, New York, New York.

DONLON, Jon Grifﬁn. Director and coordinator, Center for the

Study of Controversial Leisure, University of Southwestern Louisi-

ana; Ph.D., Leisure Studies Department, University of Illinois in

Urbana-Champaign; fellow of the Royal Geographic Society; re-

search on such contested areas as gaming, cock ﬁghting, sport

hunting, risky travel and related controversial pastimes.

DONNER, Simon. Freelance writer and environmental scien-

tist, Canada.

DUNCAN, Randy. Professor of communication, Henderson State

University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas; co-founder of the Comic Arts

Conference.

DUNCOMBE, Stephen. Assistant professor of American studies,

State University of New York, College at Old Westbury; author of

Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative

Culture (Verso, 1997).

DuPELL, Eugenia Grifﬁth. Freelance writer; master’s degree stu-

dent, information and library science, State University of New York

at Buffalo.

DYER, Stephanie. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in history,

University of Pennsylvania.

EDELMAN, Rob. Film journalist and historian; contributing editor,

Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide; author, Great Baseball

Films (Citadel Press), Baseball on the Web (MIS: Press), Angela

Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen (Birch Lane Press; co-author),

and Meet the Mertzes (Renaissance Books; co-author).

EDGERS, Geoff. Staff writer for the News & Observer, Raleigh,

North Carolina; author of The Midnight Hour: Bright Ideas for After

Dark (Penguin, 1987); contributor to Details, Spin, The New York

Times Sunday Magazine, Salon, and the Boston Phoenix.

EMBRY, Jessie L. Assistant director, Charles Redd Center for

Western Studies, and instructor in history, Brigham Young Universi-

ty; author of articles on aviation in the West with Roger D. Launius.

ESCOFFIER, Jeffrey. Author, American Homo:Community and

Perversity (University of California Press).

EVANS, Cindy Peters. Manager of retail education, TruServ Corpo-

ration; Ph.D. in anthropology; author of training programs in custom-

er satisfaction, personnel selection, and orientation.

EVANS, Sean. Collection documenter, Cline Library, Northern

Arizona University; M.A. in American history; avid Route 66 traveler

and researcher.

EVERETT, William A. Assistant professor of music history, Con-

servatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City; contributor

of articles on musical theater and other topics to various journals and

other publications.

FALWELL, Alyssa. Public relations consultant; M.A., Georgetown

University.

FEINBERG, Richard. Professor, Department of Consumer Sci-

ences and Retailing; director, Center for Customer-Driven Quality,

Purdue University; seminar presenter, consultant, and expert witness;

co-author of Customer Relationship Management and of numerous

research and trade articles.

FINCHUM, G. Allen. Assistant professor of geography, Oklahoma

State University; editor, Sport Place: An International Journal of

Sports Geography.

FINKELSTEIN, S. Naomi. Anti-poverty activist, writer and radical

historian; contributor, Bridges, Sinister Wisdom, and Gay Community

News.

FISCHER, Dennis. Author of Horror Film Directors and Science

Fiction Film Directors; contributor, American Film, Movieline,

Cinefantastique, Starlog, The Aliens Story, The Kung Fu Book, Bela

Lugosi, Backstory II and Backstory III.

FREIND, Bill. Instructor, Department of English, University of

Washington, Seattle. Contributor of articles to scholarly journals.

FREIRE-MEDEIROS, Bianca. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate,

Binghamton University, State University of New York; writing

dissertation titled ‘‘For Your Eyes Only: Images of Rio de Janeiro on

North American Films and Travel Writing (1930-1990).’’

FRENTNER, Shaun. Freelance writer.

FRIEDMAN, James. Manager UCLA Film and Television Archive

Research and Study Center. Editor of Really Squared: Televisual

Discourse on the Real (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). Ph.D.

candidate, University of California, Los Angeles; completing disser-

tation on the relationship between forms of live television, viewer

engagement, and the public sphere.

FURNESS, Adrienne. Freelance writer and reference librarian,

Lockport Public Library, Lockport, New York.

GAFFNEY, Paul. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Virginia, Charlottesville; reviewer, Virginia Quarterly Review.

GAITHER, Milton. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate in history

of American education, Indiana University.

GAJADHAR, Joan. Communications lecturer, Open Polytechnic of

New Zealand; author (with Jim Sinclair) of ‘‘A Modern Detective

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORSENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

257

Fiction’’ in Encyclopedia of British Culture (Routledge), and ‘‘Pla-

giarism and The Internet’’ in Ultibase (November 1999), an online

journal for tertiary education.

GALLEY, Catherine C. Architect D.P.L.G, E.N.S.A.D. and urban

designer M.A.U.D.; doctoral student, Department of Urban Planning

and Policy Development, Rutgers University.

GAMSON, Joshua. Associate professor of sociology, Yale Univer-

sity, New Haven, Connecticut; author of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in

Contemporary America (University of California Press, 1994), Freaks

Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (Universi-

ty of Chicago Press, 1998), and numerous scholarly and nonscholarly

articles on media, social movements, popular culture, and sexuality.

GANNON, Caitlin L. Freelance writer and teacher of communica-

tions and software; owner/editor of Javelina Books, a women’s press

in Tucson, Arizona.

GARCIA-MYERS, Sandra. Associate director, Cinema-Television

Library and Archives of the Performing Arts, University of Southern

California, Los Angeles; humanities/social science librarian, South-

ern Oregon University.

GARMAN, Bryan. Ph.D. in American studies, Emory University;

author of A Race of Singers: Making an American Working Class

Hero (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).

GARROUTTE, Eva Marie. Assistant professor of sociology, Bos-

ton College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; author, Real Indians:

Identity and the Survival of Native America (University of California,

forthcoming), and contributor of articles to scholarly journals.

GATEWARD, Frances. Media scholar and independent ﬁlm and

video artist; has taught at American University, Indiana University,

and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; essays published in

journals and the anthologies Still Lifting Still Climbing and Ladies

and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender and Media.

GEORGE, Jason. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Ohio University.

GIANOULIS, Tina. Freelance writer and lesbian activist, Bainbridge

Island, Washington.

GILES, James R. Professor of English, Northern Illinois University;

author of several books including Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr.

(1998) and The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America (1995).

GOLDIN, Milton. Fund raising counsel and writer, Tarrytown, New

York; author, The Music Merchants (Macmillan, 1969) and Why They

Give (Macmillan, 1976); member, National Coalition of Independent

Scholars (NCIS).

GOLDMAN, Ilene. Independent ﬁlm scholar, Chicago, Illinois.

Contributor of articles and reviews to JumpCut, Journal of Film and

Video, Latin American Research Review, The Chicago Tribune, and

Spectator, as well as essays on contemporary Latin American cinema

in The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts and Framing Latin American

Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives.

GOLDSTEIN, Matthew Mulligan. Freelance writer, Oakland,

California.

GOLDWEBER, Dave. Adjunct professor of English, San Francisco

area; contributor of articles to scholarly journals.

GORDON, Ian. Professor of American studies, National University

of Singapore; Ph.D. in American history, University of Rochester;

has held fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and the Swann

Foundation; author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-

1945 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998).

GORDON, W. Terrence. Professor of French, Italian, and linguis-

tics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; author of McLuhan for

Beginners (Writers & Readers Publishing, 1997) and Marshall

McLuhan: Escape into Understanding. A Biography (Harper Col-

lins, 1997).

GOULART, Ron. Freelance writer, Weston, Connecticut; author,

The Funnies (Adams, 1995), and Groucho Marx, Private Eye (St.

Martin’s Press, 1999).

GRAINGE, Paul. Freelance writer; doctoral student, University of

Nottingham, England; writing on cultural nostalgia.

GRANGER, Brian. Author-composer, Deirdre, a musical (1999);

member and composer for a national performing a cappella group.

GRAVES, Anna Hunt. B.A., American studies, Yale University;

author of Folk (Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 1994).

GRAVES, Steve. Assistant professor of geography, Louisiana Tech

University.

GREGG, Jill A. M.L.S.; reference librarian, Toledo Lucas County

Public Library, Toledo, Ohio.

GRIFFITH, Benjamin. Emeritus professor of English and dean of

the Graduate School, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton,

Georgia; author of twelve books on language and literature, and

contributor of articles to scholarly journals.

GROSSMAN, Perry. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in sociolo-

gy, New York University; dissertation on ‘‘Globalization and the

Linkage of Trade and Environmental Politics’’; author of ‘‘Identity

Crisis: The Dialectics of Punk, Rock, and Grunge,’’ in Berkeley

Journal of Sociology.

GUSTAINIS, Justin. Professor of communication, State University

of New York at Plattsburgh; author of American Rhetoric and the

Vietnam War (Praeger, 1993).

GYURE, Dale Allen. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Architectur-

al History, University of Virginia; co-author of ‘‘Architecture’’ in

Dennis R. Hall and M. Thomas Inge, eds., Handbook of American

Popular Culture, 3rd. ed. (Greenwood Press, 1999).

HA, Kristine J. Freelance writer; student, University of California,

Los Angeles.

HAAS, Elizabeth. Freelance writer, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

HABERSKI, Ray, Jr. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in history,

Ohio University; completing a dissertation entitled, ‘‘Movies into

Art: From Amusement to Auteur.’’

HALL, Jeanne Lynn. Associate professor of communications, Penn-

sylvania State; author of numerous essays on ﬁlm history and

criticism; co-author, ‘‘Beat the Press’’ (monthly column), Voices.

HANSON, Steve. Director, Cinema-Television Library and Ar-

chives of Performing Arts, University of Southern California, Los

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

258

Angeles; humanities biographer, University of Southern California,

Los Angeles; co-author, Lights, Camera, Action: A History of the

Movies in the Twentieth Century (1991), Sourcebook for the Perform-

ing Arts (1988), Film Review Index 1950-1985 (1987), Film Review

Index (1882-1949) (1986); ﬁlm reviewer, Screen International (1987-

1990); feature writer for Stills (1983-1986); associate editor, Magill’s

Survey of Cinema, Series I, II, III, 1979-81, Magill’s Bibliography of

Literary Criticism, 1979.

HATTON, Jacqueline Anne. Ph.D., Cornell University, M.A.,

University of Melbourne, Australia; author, True Story Magazine,

(University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).

HAVEN, Chris. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in creative writ-

ing, University of Houston; author of several stories and articles;

teaches a literature class titled ‘‘Crime and Punishment.’’

HAY, Ethan. M.A., Educational specialist, Sausalito, California;

freelance writer, illustrator, editor; contributing writer/illustrator for

The Learn 2 Guide: How to Do Almost Anything (Villard Press, 1999)

and Birth of a Notion (New Mexico State Legislature, 1998).

HEER, Jeet. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, York University,

Toronto, Canada; writing dissertation on Little Orphan Annie and its

audience.

HEINZE, Andrew R. Associate professor of history, University of

San Francisco; author of Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants,

Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity (Columbia

University Press, 1990).

HESS, Mary. Reviewer, Magill’s Cinema Annual; graduate student

in American history, Michigan State University.

HIRSCH, Joshua. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, ﬁlm and

television, University of California, Los Angeles; writing dissertation

on ﬁlm and the Holocaust.

HIXSON, David L. Research assistant, The Center for the Study of

Popular Television; Ph.D. student, S.I. Newhouse School of Public

Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

HOFFMAN, Scott W. Bachelor of science, radio-television-ﬁlm,

University of Texas at Austin; master of arts, liturgical studies, St.

John’s School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota; author of ‘‘How

Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? St. Maria Goretti in the Post-

Countercultural World,’’ The Critic (fall 1995) and of the forthcom-

ing ‘‘Holy Martin: The Overlooked Canonization of Dr. Martin

Luther King.’’

HOLCOMB, Briavel. Professor of urban studies and geography,

Rutgers University; co-author of Revitalizing Cities (AAG, 1981)

and of The United States: A Contemporary Human Geography

(Wiley, 1988).

HOLLORAN, Peter C. Assistant professor of history, Bentley

College, Waltham, Massachusetts; executive secretary, Northeast

Popular Culture/American Culture Association.

HOLLOWAY, David. Lecturer in American studies, University of

Derby (England); author of a number of articles on American novelist

Cormac McCarthy.

HOVDE, Karen. Reference librarian, Northern Illinois University

Libraries.

HOWLEY, Kevin. Assistant professor, Communication Studies,

Northeastern University; Ph.D., Indiana University.

HUMEZ, Nick. Silversmith; co-author of books on romance philolo-

gy and its cultural corollaries, including Latin for People/Latina pro

Populo (Little, Brown, 1976); former principal music reviewer for the

Maine Sunday Telegram and its associated daily, the Portland Press

Herald.

ISAKSEN, Judy L. Visiting assistant professor of rhetoric, Eckerd

College, St. Petersburg, Florida; Ph.D. candidate, Rhetoric and Com-

position, University of South Florida, Tampa; author of several

articles in composition journals.

JANKAUSKAS, Jennifer. Freelance writer.

JOHANNINGMEIER, E. V. Freelance writer.

JONES, Patrick. Librarian, Houston, Texas; author, What’s So

Scary About R.L. Stine? (Scarecrow Press, 1998).

JONES, Patrick. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Wisconsin-Madison; writing a dissertation on civil rights insurgency

in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1963-72.

JONES, Preston Neal. Writer and ﬁlm historian; contributor,

Cinefantastique Magazine, American Art Review, and The Library of

Congress Performing Arts Annual.

JOSEPH, Mark. President of MJM Entertainment Group, Los

Angeles, California; author of Out Of This World: Why People of

Faith Abandoned Rock and Roll, Why They’re Coming Back (Broadman

& Holman, 1999).

JUDD, Thomas. Freelance writer.

KALLINEY, Peter. Freelance writer; graduate student, English

language and literature, University of Michigan; writing dissertation

entitled ‘‘Cities of Afﬂuence and Anger: Urbanism and Literature in

Postwar Britain.’’

KANELLOS, Nicolás. Brown Professor of Hispanic literature, Uni-

versity of Houston, and author of various reference books and

histories of Hispanic culture.

KARNEY, Robyn. Editor and writer specializing in ﬁlm subjects;

co-author of The Foreign Film Guide; editor, Crown Series of

Hollywood Studio Histories; editor-in-chief, The Chronicle of the

Cinema; author of biographies of Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster.

KEANE, Stephen. Lecturer in English, Bretton Hall College, Uni-

versity of Leeds, United Kingdom; teaching and research interests

include modernism, postmodernism, critical theory, and popular

culture.

KEELINE, James D. Freelance writer and independent scholar;

author of Stratemeyer Syndicate Ghostwriters (self published, 1999),

an unpublished work titled Series Book Encyclopedia, and numerous

articles for scholarly and genre periodicals; area chair, Popular

Culture Association section on Dime Novels, Pulps, and Series Books.

KELLERMAN, Max. Freelance writer.

KEMPCKE, Ken. Reference librarian, Montana State University—

Bozeman.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORSENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

259

KENNY, Stephen C. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, forthcoming

dissertation on ‘‘Slavery and Medicine in Antebellum South Caroli-

na’’; author of an essay, ‘‘Southern Landscapes: Heaven, Hell and

Hospital,’’ included in N. Moody and J. Hallam, eds., Medical

Fictions (John Moores University Press, 1998).

KERCHER, Stephen. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Depart-

ments of History and American Studies, Indiana University; disserta-

tion on 1950s and early-1960s American satire.

KERR, Matt. Freelance writer; doctoral student, Ohio University,

specializing in Modern German and European History.

KIBLER, M. Alison. Visiting scholar in the history program at the

Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National Uni-

versity (Canberra); author of Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural

Hierarchy in American Vaudeville (University of North Carolina

Press, 1999).

KIDD, Kimberley H. Adjunct instructor of English, King College,

Bristol, Tennessee, and East Tennessee State University, Johnson City.

KILLMEIER, Matthew A. Freelance writer; doctoral student, School

of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa; co-

author of ‘‘Wireless Pleasure: Locating Radio in the American

Home,’’ in Hanno Hardt, editor, In the Company of Media: Cultural

Constructions of Communication 1920s-1930s (Westview Press,

forthcoming).

KING, Jason. Playwright; doctoral candidate, performance studies,

New York University.

KLINKOWITZ, Jerome. Professor of English and university distin-

guished scholar at the University of Northern Iowa; author of forty

books on modern and contemporary culture, including Literary

Disruptions, Listen: Gerry Mulligan, and Writing Baseball.

KLINKOWITZ, Jon. Journalist, Iowa City Press-Citizen; profes-

sional blues guitar player.

KONICKI, Leah. Historic preservation ofﬁcer, City of Covington,

Kentucky; author of various articles on Sears and catalog houses.

KOTOK, Steven. Publisher, DDM Press, New York, New York.

KUHLKEN, Robert. Cultural geographer on the faculty of Central

Washington University in Ellensburg; numerous published journal

articles on subjects ranging from agricultural history to zydeco music.

KUNKA, Andrew J. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, Purdue

University.

KUPFERBERG, Audrey. Film and video archivist and appraiser;

teaches ﬁlm history at the State University of New York at Albany;

co-author, Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen (Birch Lane

Press) and Meet the Mertzes (Renaissance Books).

KUPPERS, Petra. Freelance writer.

LAMBERT, Emma. Teaching assistant, modern American and

African American history, University of Birmingham, England;

Ph.D. candidate, University of Birmingham, England; writing thesis

on Time Inc. and the Cold War under Eisenhower.

LANE, Christina. Freelance writer.

LAUSE, Kevin. Freelance writer; master’s degree candidate, Ameri-

can culture studies, Bowling Green State University; co-author,

Popular Culture: An Introductory Text (Popular Press, 1992).

LEAVELL, Nadine-Rae. M.L.S. research coordinator and informa-

tion specialist, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.

LEE, Christopher A. Freelance writer; doctoral student, University

of California, Los Angeles; contributor, An Encyclopedia of Ameri-

can Literature of the Sea and the Great Lakes and the Publications of

the Arkansas Philological Association.

LELLOUCHE, Michele. Attorney, Corbel & Co.; contributor, His-

tory of the Modern Olympic Movement (Greenwood Press, 1996).

LENT, Robin. Associate professor and head of collection develop-

ment, University of New Hampshire Library.

LEOTTA, Joan. Freelance journalist, Burke, Virginia; specializing

in business, history, education, and travel.

LEVINE, Richard. Freelance writer; graduate student, University of

Maryland, Department of American Studies; currently ﬁnishing a

thesis on bumper stickers, T-shirts, pin-back buttons and other forms

of ‘‘personal grafﬁti.’’

LIMSKY, Drew. Adjunct professor, Brooklyn College; cultural

criticism and ﬁction contributor, Washington Post, The Los Angeles

Times, Genre, His 2 (Faber & Faber), and His 3 (Farrar, Straus &

Giroux).

LINDLEY, Daniel. Freelance writer and editor, Eugene, Oregon;

author, Ambrose Bierce Takes on the Railroad (Praeger, 1999).

LINEHAN, Joyce. Manager of recording artists Mike Ireland, Hol-

ler, and the Pernice Brothers, and producer Michael Deming; M.A.

candidate, American studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

LITTON, Margaret. Master’s degree, University of Kentucky,

Lexington; thesis ‘‘The Southerner’s Other Problem’’ on poor whites

in Depression-era ﬁction.

LLOYD, James H. Director of libraries, Cincinnati Bible College &

Seminary; minister.

LONERGAN, David. Reference librarian, Northern Illinois Univer-

sity; research interests in the popular music of the last ﬁfty years,

especially rock and roll.

LONGLEY, Eric. Writer, Durham, North Carolina.

LOTT, Rick. Teaches in the English Department at Arkansas State

University; articles published in Journal of Popular Culture Univer-

sity of Mississippi Studies in English, and Clues: a Journal of

Detection; poems widely published in magazines.

LOVETT-GRAFF, Bennett. Ph.D. Multimedia editor, Primary Source

Media; independent scholar.

LOWE, Denise. Academic conference and seminar presenter through-

out the U.S.; M.A., American studies, California State University at

Fullerton; thesis on ‘‘The Depiction of Single Career Women in

Network Situation Comedies, 1950-1994’’ (1994); author of the

tentatively titled reference volume, ‘‘Women and American Televi-

sion’’ (ABC-CLIO, 1999).

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

260

LUCAS, Debra M. Research and technical consultant; freelance

writer and contributor to newspapers, newsletters, books, Buffalo,

New York.

LUPACK, Barbara Tepa. Editor and publisher, Round Table Publi-

cations; author of numerous books on American literature and cul-

ture, including Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski (G. K. Hall, 1998),

King Arthur in America (Boydell and Brewer, 1999), Arthurian

Literature by Women (Garland, 1999), and Nineteenth-Century Wom-

en at the Movies (Bowling Green State University/Popular Press, 1999).

LURIE, Karen. Author of TV Chefs: The Dish on the Stars of Your

Favorite Cooking Shows; extensive writings about television and

popular culture, including four other books.

LUTES, Michael A. Reference and government documents librari-

an, University of Notre Dame; contributor, Encyclopedia of AIDS

(1998), Gay and Lesbian Biography (1998), Gay and Lesbian Litera-

ture Vols. I and II (1994/1998), Gay and Lesbian Literary Companion

(1995); reviewer for Library Journal and Choice.

LYONS, James. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Nottingham, England; writing dissertation on representations of

Seattle in contemporary culture.

LYONS, John F. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Illinois at Chicago; thesis on the Chicago Teachers’ Union.

MACEK, Steve. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Department of

Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minneso-

ta, Twin Cities.

MACOR, Alison. Film critic for the Austin American-Statesman,

Austin, Texas; Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin;

writing dissertation about cult ﬁlm and television fan communities.

MARC, David. Visiting professor and Steven H. Scheuer Scholar in

Television Studies, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

at Syracuse University; author of Comic Visions (Blackwell, 1989;

2nd ed. 1997), a history of American television comedy.

MARKOWITZ, Robin. Ph.D. lecturer in sociology, California State

University, Long Beach; editor and founder, Cultural Studies Central

http://www.culturalstudies.net/, an electronic clearinghouse of cul-

tural studies resources and original analysis.

MARSH, Tilney L. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, English

literature, University of Wisconsin—Madison; M.A., University of

Wisconsin—Madison; B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

MARTIN, Richard. Curator, The Costume Institute, The Metropoli-

tan Museum of Art, New York City; adjunct professor of art history

and archaeology, Columbia University, and adjunct professor art,

New York University; author of Fashion and Surrealism (Rizzoli,

1987), Cubism and Fashion (1998), and The Ceaseless Century:

Three Hundred Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume (Metropolitan

Museum of Art, 1998); also author of hundreds of essays and dozens

of exhibition catalogues.

MARTIN, Sara. Senior assistant teacher, Universitat Autonoma de

Barcelona, Spain; co-founder of S.I.N.P.L.I. (Spanish Association for

the Study of Popular Texts in English).

MARTINDALE, Linda A. Administrative assistant, Humanities

Division, Elon College, North Carolina; author of ‘‘Some Positive

Images of Alternative Lifestyles on Television in the Nineties,’’ in

Anne Cassebaum and Rosemary Haskell’s American Culture and the

Media: Reading, Writing, and Thinking (Houghton Mifﬂin Compa-

ny, 1997); presenter at popular culture conferences.

MATTSON, Kevin. Research director, Walt Whitman Center for the

Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University, and indepen-

dent scholar; author of Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle

for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era

(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998); also author of numerous

essays and reviews.

McCLURE, Randall. Member of the Department of English, Bowl-

ing Green State University.

McCRACKEN, Allison. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Program

in American Studies, University of Iowa.

McDAID, Jennifer Davis. Assistant editor, Virginia Cavalcade,

Library of Virginia.

McENTEE, Jason. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in ﬁlm, com-

position/rhetoric, and 20th century American literature, University of

Kentucky, Lexington; M.A., English: language studies and rhetoric,

South Dakota State University (May 1998).

McGRATH, Cheryl S. Independent art historian, graphic designer,

and art curator; has taught Survey of Art classes at Texas A&M

University—Corpus Christi.

McKEAND, Daryna. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, English

Literature, New York University; writing dissertation on alcoholism

in Victorian novels.

McLENDON, Jacquelyn Y. Associate professor of English and

director of black studies, College of William and Mary; author, The

Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen (The

University Press of Virginia, 1995).

McLEOD, Kembrew. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Depart-

ment of Communication, University of Massachusetts—Amherst;

contributor, The Village Voice, Raygun and SonicNet; author, ‘‘Au-

thenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With

Assimilation,’’ Journal of Communication (1999).

McQUAIL, Josephine A. Associate professor of English, Tennessee

Technological University; author of an unpublished book of Grateful

Dead lyrics.

MEDEIROS, Alex. Programming consultant, Walt Disney Televi-

sion International; M.S. candidate, television/radio/ﬁlm, Syracuse

University, Syracuse, New York.

MELTON, Brad. Editorial assistant, Arizona Highways; assistant

editor, Documentary Editing; graduate history student, Arizona State

University.

MENDIBLE, Myra. Ph.D. Associate professor, contemporary liter-

ary and cultural studies, Florida Gulf Coast University; contributor of

articles to scholarly journals and academic conferences.

MERRON, Jeff. Assistant professor of communications, State Uni-

versity of West Georgia, and senior editor, SportsJones.com.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORSENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

261

MERTZ, Thomas J. Freelance writer; doctoral student, United

States History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MEYER, Nathan R. Secondary educator and historical researcher,

Eureka, Illinois.

MIDDLEBROOK, Jonathan. Professor of English, San Francisco

State University; author, Mailer and the Times of His Time (1976) and

various articles, scholarly and popular.

MILLARD, Andre. Professor of history and director of American

studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham; author, America on

Record: A History of Recorded Sound (Cambridge, 1995); contribu-

tor, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Journal.

MILLER, Jeffrey S. Assistant professor of English and journalism,

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; author, Something

Completely Different: British Television and American Culture (Uni-

versity of Minnesota, 1999).

MILLER, Karen. Freelance writer; graduate student and freelance

writer, Detroit, Michigan.

MILLER, P. Andrew. Lecturer in creative writing at Northern

Kentucky University; member, Science Fiction Writer’s of America;

publishes short ﬁction.

MILLS, Dorothy Jane. Freelance author and editor; author of The

Sceptre (Xlibris, 1999).

MILNER, Andrew. Critic, Philadelphia City Paper; contributor, Spy

Magazine and Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Garland Press, 1997).

MINTZ, Lawrence E. Associate professor, American studies, Uni-

versity of Maryland; director, Art Gliner Center for Humor Studies;

editor of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research; author of

numerous articles, book chapters, reviews, and conference papers on

popular culture, particularly American humor.

MIX, Deborah M. Teacher, Department of American Thought and

Language, Michigan State University.

MOODY, Nickianne. Principal lecturer, Media and Cultural Studies,

Liverpool, John Moores University; convenor, Association for Re-

search in Popular Fictions.

MOODY, Richard L. Professor of ﬁlm studies, Utah Valley State

College and Salt Lake Community College, Utah; author of Introduc-

tion to Media Art and contributor of articles to scholarly journals.

MOORE, Charles F. Member of staff, Center for Appalachian

Studies and Services, East Tennessee State University; editor, Asunaro:

Living in the Mountains of Japan (Center for Appalachian Studies &

Services, 1998).

MOORE, Leonard N. Assistant professor of history, Louisiana State

University; specializes in African-American and urban history.

MOOS, Dan. Freelance writer; graduate student in English, State

University of New York—Buffalo.

MORACE, Robert A. Professor of English, Daemen College; au-

thor, The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge

(Southern Illinois University Press, 1989); contributor to journals and

collections, including The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich.

MORAN, Edward. Writes about American cultural and literary

history of the twentieth century; associate editor, Random House

Dictionary of the English Language and for H.W. Wilson’s World

Authors and World Musicians reference series.

MORRIS, Barry. Associate professor of speech communication,

Pace University, New York; contributor of articles on rhetoric,

politics, and culture to The Quarterly Journal of Speech and other

publications.

MURPHY, Michael J. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, Depart-

ment of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University, St. Louis.

MURRAY, Jennifer A. Freelance writer; student, University of

California, Los Angeles.

MURRAY, Susan. Assistant professor of television and radio, City

University of New York—Brooklyn College.

MVUYEKURE, Pierre-Damien. Assistant professor of English and

African American Literature, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar

Falls; contributor of articles to critical sourcebooks (Greenwood Press).

NAJJAR, Michael. Founding artistic director, Riverside Repertory

Theatre; free-lance writer, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

NASH, Ilana. Freelance writer; doctoral student in American culture

studies, Bowling Green State University; co-author, Series Books and

the Media (SynSine Press, 1996); contributor to scholarly and popular

journals on the history of series books.

NEMANIC, Mary Lou. Assistant professor of mass media, Western

State College, Gunnison, Colorado; Ph.D. in American studies; co-

director of Tamarack Documentary; contributor, Biographical Ency-

clopedia of Indoor Sports (1987); co-director of a hockey culture

documentary and of a documentary project of the Minnesota Iron Range.

NEWMAN, Scott. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Loyola Uni-

versity, Chicago; writing dissertation on middle-class leisure in early

twentieth-century Chicago.

NICKS, Joan. Associate professor of ﬁlm studies and popular

culture, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; chapters

in Documenting the Documentary (Wayne State University Press,

1998), Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (Universi-

ty of Toronto Press, 1999), and contributor of articles to scholarly

journals.

NORDEN, Martin F. Professor of communication, University of

Massachusetts—Amherst; author of The Cinema of Isolation: A

History of Physical Disability in the Movies (Rutgers University

Press, 1994) and John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood

Press, 1995).

NORDSTROM, Justin. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate in Ameri-

can ethnic and religious history; M.A., U.S. history, Indiana Universi-

ty—Bloomington.

NOTARO, Anna. Research fellow in visual culture, working on the

research project “Literary and Visual Representations of Three Ameri-

can Cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) 1870s-1930s,” Univer-

sity of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

262

O’CONNOR, William F. Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Asia

University, Tokyo, Japan; co-editor, The Kenkyusha Dictionary of

English Collocations (Kenkyusha, 1995).

O’HARA, Paul. Freelance writer; Ph.D. student, Indiana Universi-

ty—Bloomington.

O’NEAL, Angela. Freelance writer; graduate student, Miami Uni-

versity of Ohio; thesis titled ‘‘The McGuffey Readers: Agents of

Americanization.’’

O’SHEA, Christopher D. Freelance writer; Ph.D. program, Univer-

sity of Guelph; specializing in Canadian and United States history,

class, gender, and social construction.

OCKERSTROM, Lolly. Freelance writer, American Friends Serv-

ice Committee, Washington; Ph.D., English, Northeastern Universi-

ty; has taught writing and women’s literature at Northeastern and

Virginia Commonwealth University.

OWENS, Kerry. Assistant professor, Northeast Louisiana University.

OXOBY, Marc. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Nevada, Reno.

PAINO, Troy. Assistant professor of history, Winona State Univer-

sity, Winona, Minnesota; contributor of articles and book reviews on

subjects related to sports in American culture.

PAINTER, D. Byron. Freelance writer; master’s student in history,

University of Illinois at Springﬁeld; political science and history

degree, Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois.

PALLADINO, Grace. Co-director, The Samuel Gompers Papers,

University of Maryland, College Park; author, Teenagers: An Ameri-

can History (Basic Books, 1996) and books on working-class history.

PARATTE, Henri-Dominique. Freelance writer and professor, Acadia

University; specializes in translation, cultural studies, Acadian stud-

ies; author of 10 books and numerous articles in journals, magazines,

and newspapers in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

PARIS, Leslie. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, program in

American culture, University of Michigan; dissertation on interwar

summer camps.

PARRENT, Jay. Freelance writer and historic preservation consult-

ant, Owensboro, Kentucky.

PAXTON, Felicity. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University

of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, writing dissertation on the high

school prom.

PENDERGAST, Sara. President, Full Circle Editorial, Inc.; editor,

Contemporary Designers, 3rd edition (1997); co-editor, Gay and

Lesbian Literature, Vol. 2 (1998), St. James Guide to Children’s

Writers, 5th edition (1999), and St. James Guide to Young Adult

Writers, 2nd edition (1999).

PENDERGAST, Tom. Principal, Full Circle Editorial, Inc.; Ph.D. in

American studies, Purdue University; author, Consuming Men: Mas-

culinity, Race, and American Magazines, 1900-1950 (University of

Missouri Press, forthcoming); co-editor, Gay and Lesbian Literature,

Vol. 2 (1998), St. James Guide to Children’s Writers, 5th edition

(1999), and St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers, 2nd edi-

tion (1999).

PENDRAGON, Jana. Writer, teacher, and critic; masters degree in

history; author of a published thesis entitled ‘‘The Use of King Arthur

as an Icon in Popular American Culture’’; documents traditional

country and western music; teaches classes to adults on the culture

and history of Native Americans, country & western music, cowboys,

and King Arthur.

PETERSON, Geoff. Assistant professor of political science, South-

western Oklahoma State University; research on the media and

politics, voting behavior, conspiracy theory and the X-Files, and

Native American politics.

PETERSON, Kurt W. Assistant professor of history, Judson Col-

lege; Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Notre Dame.

PETTIGREW, Emily. Freelance writer, Lakewood, Ohio. M.A. in

American culture studies, Bowling Green State University, 1997;

thesis, ‘‘Sounds Like the End of the World: How the Postmodernism

of Generation X Is Given Voice Through Industrial Rock.’’

PHILIPPON, Daniel J. Assistant professor of rhetoric, University of

Minnesota, Twin Cities; editor, The Height of Our Mountains: Nature

Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah

Valley (Johns Hopkins, 1998); editor, The Friendship of Nature: A

New England Chronicle of Birds and Flowers, by Mabel Osgood

Wright (Johns Hopkins, 1999).

PHILO, S. J. Lecturer in American studies, University of Derby

(United Kingdom); published chapters and articles on The Simpsons,

MTV, American youth television, and the literature of the Vi-

etnam War.

PHY-OLSEN, Allene. Professor of English and director of honors

program, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.

PIACENTINO, Ed. Professor of English, High Point University;

author of T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Litera-

ture (University Press of America, 1988); contributor of numerous

articles and reviews on American literature and culture to scholarly

journals and reference books.

PIETERS, Jürgen. Teacher, literary theory, University of Ghent,

Belgium; doctoral candidate, dissertation on the New Historicism of

Stephen Greenblatt; several published articles in the ﬁelds of literary

theory, literature, and theatre.

POGUE, Paul F. P. Freelance writer and photographer, Muncie,

Indiana; former editor-in-chief, Ball State Daily News.

POHLAD, Mark B. Assistant professor, Department of Art and Art

History, DePaul University, Chicago; teaches and publishes in Ameri-

can art and in the history of photography.

PORTA, Fernando. Ph.D., English literature, Reading, United King-

dom; M.A. in critical theory, Shefﬁeld, United Kingdom; B.A. in

modern languages, Salerno, Italy; author of La scienza come favola

(1995), and of scholarly articles.

POSNER, Michael L. Retired correspondent for Reuters and United

Press International.

NOTES ON ADVISORS AND CONTRIBUTORSENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE

263

PRICE, John A. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, The University

of Texas at Dallas; M.F.A. in actor training/directing, Boston University.

PRICE, Victoria. Writer, A&E’s Biography series; author of a

biography of Vincent Price (St. Martin’s Press, forthcoming); doctor-

al candidate, American studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

PRONO, Luca. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, University of

Nottingham, United Kingdom; studying literary, cinematic and socio-

logical representations of Chicago in the twentieth century; graduated

cum laude from the University of Venice, Italy.

PURDY, Elizabeth. Ph.D. Assistant professor of political science,

Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, Atlanta, Georgia; contributor to

various scholarly works on political science and women’s issues.

PYLE, Christian L. Freelance writer, Lexington, Kentucky.

RABINOVITZ, Lauren. Professor of American studies and ﬁlm

studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City; author, Points of Resistance:

Women, Power and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema,

1943-1971 (University Illinois Press, 1991) and For the Love of

Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chi-

cago (Rutgers University Press, 1998); co-author, The Rebecca

Project (Rutgers University Press, 1995); co-editor, Seeing through

the Media: The Persian Gulf War (Rutgers University Press, 1994)

and Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical

Essays (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

RANDALL, Jessy. Curator of women’s history collection, Library

Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

RAVID, Taly. Freelance writer; student, University of California,

Los Angeles.

RAY, Belinda S. At-home mother; Women’s History Guide, The

Mining Company; columnist, ‘‘Portland Woman,’’ Portland, Maine;

author, Sweet Valley High #138 (Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, 1997) and

Sweet Valley High: Senior Year #5 (Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, 1999).

RAYKOFF, Ivan. Pianist and musicologist; Ph.D., University of

California—San Diego.

REAVES, Wendy Wick. Freelance writer.

REED, T. V. Associate professor of English and director of Ameri-

can studies, Washington State University, Pullman; author of Fifteen

Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of Ameri-

can Social Movements (University of California Press, 1992).

REIBMAN, James E. Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvannia;

author, My Brother’s Keeper: The Life of Fredric Wertham, M.D.;

annotated Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent; co-editor, A Fredric

Wertham Reader; author of numerous articles and book chapters on

legal writers of the Scottish Enlightenment; Samuel Johnson and his

circle; law and literature, and popular culture.

RETTER, Yolanda. M.L.S. librarian, International Gay and Lesbian

Archives, Los Angeles; manager, Lesbian History Project web site;

contributor to various anthologies and reference works. Ph.D. in

American studies expected in 1999.

REVELS, Tracy J. Associate professor of history, Wofford College,

Spartanburg, South Carolina.

RHOLETTER, Wylene. Instructor, Department of English, Auburn

University; author of poems published in Caesura, Chattahoochee

Review, and other literary magazines and of papers delivered at

SAMLA, NCTE, and other conferences.

RICHARDS, Tad. Author of The New Country Music Encyclopedia

(Simon & Schuster, 1993, with Melvin B. Shestack) and My Night

with the Language Thieves: Collected Poems (Ye Olde Font

Shoppe, 1998).

RIDINGER, Robert B. Full professor, University Libraries, North-

ern Illinois University; author of The Gay and Lesbian Movement;

References and Resources (G.K. Hall, 1998) and contributor to St.

James Gay and Lesbian Almanac and Gay and Lesbian Biography.

RITTER, Jeff. Assistant professor of communication design, La

Roche College, Pittsburgh; producer and writer in a variety of media

including video, radio, and the Internet.

ROBERTSON, Thomas. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Univer-

sity of Wisconsin—Madison.

ROBINSON, Arthur. Adjunct professor of American culture, Diablo

Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California, and Santa Rosa Junior

College, Santa Rosa, California; teaches English, literature, history,

and technical writing; author of “Teaching About Social Unrest: The

1992 L.A. Uprising as a Text in the Critical Thinking Classroom,”

Inside English, Winter 1999.

ROSA, Todd Anthony. Teaching fellow, The George Washington

University; extensive writings on American cultural, political, and

diplomatic history.

ROSE, Ava. Social worker specializing in working with trauma

survivors; has taught college courses, published, and presented con-

ference papers on ﬁlm and television theory, culture studies, femi-

nism, and psychoanalysis; master’s degree in social welfare, Univer-

sity of California—Los Angeles; master’s degree in cinema studies,

New York University; B.A. in women’s studies, Barnard College/

Columbia University.

ROUTLEDGE, Chris. Freelance writer and lecturer, Kent, England.

ROY, Abhijit. Freelance writer; doctoral candidate, marketing,

Boston University; author of articles in Journal of Consumer Market-

ing, Journal of Direct Marketing, Journal of Product and Brand

Management, and Journal of Services Marketing.

RUSSELL, Adrienne. Freelance writer; Ph.D. candidate, Indiana

University, Bloomington; writing dissertation about social move-

ments on the Internet.

RUSSELL, Dennis. Associate professor, Walter Cronkite School of

Journalism and Telecommunication, Arizona State University; au-

thor of articles published in Studies in Popular Culture, Popular

Culture Review, and Southwestern Mass Communication Journal.

SAGOLLA, Lisa Jo. Ed.D. Dance instructor, Columbia University;

adjunct professor, Marymount Manhattan College; dance critic, Back

Stage.

SALAMONE, Frank A. Chair, Department of Sociology, Iona

College, New Rochelle, New York; authored many books on Africa,