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ELIZABETH BAKER lives and writes in Durham,
North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina.
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RUSSELL BLACKFORD
is a writer, critic, and student of philosophy, based in Melbourne,
Australia, where he is Honorary Research Associate in the School of
Literary, Visual and Performing Arts, Monash University. His formal
qualifications include a PhD from the University of Newcastle, and a
Master of Bioethics degree from Monash. He is co-author of Strange Constellations:
A History of Australian Science Fiction (1999), and a contributor to many
magazines, journals, reference works, and anthologies. His recent
publications include a science fiction trilogy, Terminator 2:The New
John Connor Chronicles; the
novels in the series are Dark Futures (2002), An Evil Hour (2003), and Times of Trouble (2003). Russell is currently thinking up
new ways to destroy humanity as we know it.
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FRANCES
FLANNERY-DAILEY, PhD, is an assistant professor of Religion at
Hendrix College, in Conway, Arkansas. In addition to teaching courses
in Biblical Studies, she also teaches classes on Religion and Culture,
including "Religion and Film," "Apocalyptic Thought and Movements," and
"Religion and Monsters." She has written several articles on film and
most recently a book entitled Dreamers, Scribes, and
Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Brill, 2004). Her secret writing partner
is twenty-month-old Samuel, who, alas, does not type well. Her spouse
Mike and the dogs (Maggie, Casey, and Bucky) also lend a hand from time
to time.
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BRUCE ISAACS is a final year PhD student at
the Univrrsily of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include
theories of postmodernism, as well as the films of Quentin Tarantino
and David Lynch. He has written a chapter on postmodern narrative
theory for Post-Punk Cinema
(ed. Nicholas Rombes) published by the University of Edinburgh
Press.
He also contributed to Finding the Force of the
Star Wars Franchise.
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RICHARD
JONES is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lee University in
eastern Tennessee and an ordained minister. He, his wife Sheila, and
their daughter, Rebecca, have a Lab-Bassett hybrid named Daisy who
tends to occupy a lot of their time. Richard also likes reading science
fiction, pla-ing softball, and fishing.
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C. RICHARD KING
is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State
University in Pullman, Washington. His work has appeared in a variety
of journals, such as American Indian Culture and Research Journal,
Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Public Historian, and Qualitative
Inquiry. He is also the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits:The Native American Mascot
Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title), Postcolonial America, and most
recently Telling Achievements:
Native American Athletes in Modern Sport. He is completing work
on a book on race and racism in American popular culture.
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GRAY
KOCHHAR-LINDGREN is Associate Professor of English, Central
Michigan University, and the author of Narcissus Transformed, Starting Time, and Technologies. He lives near Useless
Bay among the deer, fox, and banana slugs.
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JOHN
SHELTON LAWRENCE is Professor Emeritus, Morningside College at
Sioux City, Iowa. He taught philosophy and interdisciplinary courses in
American culture before retiring in Berkeley, California. He is a
Senior Fellow in Conservation at the Sierra Club in San Francisco,
doing research on corporate environmental policies and behavior. He
writes frequently on American popular culture and politics, most
recently in books co-authored with Robert Jewett: The Myth of the American Superhero
(2002)—winner of the John Cawelti Award of the American Culture
Association for the Best Book of 2002, and Captain America and the Crusade Against
Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism (2003). He has
mortal envy for the success of the Wachowski brothers in popularizing
philosophical ideas for the college age group—and isn't expected to
survive a sequel to the Matrix trilogy.
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DAVID J. LEONARD
is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State
University, Pullman, Washington. His articles have appeared in American
Jewish History, PopMatters, Colorlines, and at conferences sponsored by
the Popular Culture Association and the Organization of American
Historians. He is working on a manuscript on race, gender, and national
identity within video games, and another examining race and Kobe Bryant.
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MARTINA LlPP is currently a Fulbright
Scholar and German Language Teach-ing Assistant at Hollins University
in Virginia. She is doing research in fem-inist film studies and
cultural studies, and is working on her PhD on "Alter-native Spaces:The
Postmodern Female Hero in Contemporary U.S. Fiction and Film" at the
University of Graz, Austria. She graduated from the Uni-versity of Graz
with a Master's Thesis on "The (M)Other: Femininity, Sex-uality, and
Maternity in The Matrix." Lipp has also studied at the Univer-sity of
La Laguna in La Laguna, Spain, and at the University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. She really wants to be a hero, but does not
know how to fit into the latex outfit.
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TIMOTHY MIZELLE teaches in the First Year
Writing Program at Duke Uni-versity. His prose and poetry have appeared
in The Paris Review; Mythosphere: A Journal for Image, Myth, and
Symbol; The Carolina Quarterly; and other jour-nals. He was a Morehead
Scholar at the University of North Carolina. He is currently working on
a novel, The Left Hand Path;
a collection of stories, Red Feather;
and a project on films by Lang, Godard, Fellini, and Lynch called
"Silencio: The Weight of Silence," with Elizabeth Baker. When he is not
losing himself in his own imaginings or those of the directors named,
he lets himself be dazzled by the pretend adventures that he encounters
with his daughters, Celia and Madeleine.
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MICHAEL SEXSON
has lived for the past three decades in an alternate reality where he
has posed not always successfully as a professor of English at Montana
State University in Bozeman. He teaches and writes primarily on topics
related to religion, literature, and mythology. He is the author of a
book on the insurance salesman Wallace Stevens who, thinking himself an
artist, poetically pondered the shifting currents between reality and
imagination.
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THEODORE LOUIS TROST is
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and New College at the
University of Alabama. He is the author of Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse
in American Religion (2002) and, with Carolyn Medine Jones, the
co-editor of Teaching African
American Religions (2004). He is currently writing a book on
religion, popular music, and film.
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RACHEL
L.WAGNER, PhD, is
the Hundere Teaching Fellow of Religion and
Culture at Oregon State
University in Corvallis. Wagner
teaches a variety of courses on monotheistic religions and Religion and
Culture, including "Religion and Film," "Islam and Media," and
"Spiritual Journeys," and also has a particular interest in the
cultural significance of Harry Potter. Her dissertation, now being
revised and submitted for publication, is an intertextual analysis of
biblical structures in William Blake's epic poem Jerusalem. When not
writing or teaching, Wagner plays soccer on three recreational teams
and tries to keep up with her brilliant nine-year-old son Isaac,
Yu-Gi-Oh mas-ter and computer programmer extraordinaire.
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STEPHANIE J. WILHELM is a graduate, with
distinction, of the University of Michigan—Dearborn with degrees in
English and history and holds a Masters degree in literature from Wayne
State University. Her relationship with her cats, Sasha, Boris,
and Nikita, it has been pointed out by friends, borders on the
pathological.
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Information
on the editors, Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty can
be found on the Editors
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