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Jonathan
L. Bowen
is a graduate of Oregon State University’s philosophy department. He is
a life-long Star Wars fan and
the author of a nonfiction book titled Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star
Wars: Episode I—The Phantom
Menace, which looks at the unprecedented media coverage and
cultural
impact of the first prequel and its place in film history. Bowen also
runs a critical review Web site at orbitalreviews.com.
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Lincoln
Geraghty is
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Creative Arts,
Film, and Media at the University of Portsmouth, with a PhD in American
studies from the University of Nottingham. His work has been published
in major academic journals in Europe and the United States. He has
three forthcoming books: Living with
Star Trek: American Culture and Star Trek Fandom, an edited
collection entitled The Star Trek
Effect, and
a third collection entitled Generic
Canons: Genre, History, Memory.
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Jess
C. Horsley
like Luke, grew up on a farm and dreamt of escaping his small-town life
to travel other worlds. After enlisting in the United States Marine
Corps as an infantryman, he realized this dream. A decorated combat
veteran, Horsley is currently at work on a memoir of his experiences as
a grunt in Iraq. Now an English education and writing major at
Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, Horsley works as contributing
editor to figures.com, the
Internet’s number-one
action figure Web site.
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Bruce
Isaacs
is finishing his doctoral thesis in the English
Department of the University of Sydney, Australia. His work looks at
film aesthetics, popular culture, and the idea of spectacle cinema. He
has published on The Matrix
in Kapell and Doty’s Jacking in to
The
Matrix Franchise (2004) and on narrative theory in New Punk Cinema
(2005). He has published a short story entitled “The Sound of the Fury
of Walter Wishwell” in New Writing
(London).
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Roger
Kaufman
is a licensed, gay-centered psychotherapist with a
private practice in
Hollywood, California, specializing in Jungian and psychoanalytic depth
work with gay men and lesbians. His previous writing on gay archetypal
psychology and film has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the White Crane
Journal, and the Gay & Lesbian
Review Worldwide. He has
provided training lectures for psychotherapy with gay men at many
clinics in the area, as well as the California State University at
Northridge. He also lectures for the general public and is the
continuing education coordinator for the Institute for Contemporary
Uranian Psychoanalysis, an organization dedicated to fostering an
integrative gay-centered psychology. He received his MA in clinical
psychology from Antioch University and his BA in history from Brown
University.
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Michelle
J. Kinnucan
is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an editor
of and contributor to Critical Moment. Her writing has
appeared in PS:
Political Science and Politics, Agenda,
commondreams.org, Nonviolent Resister, and The Record. Her 2004 article on the
Global Intelligence Working Group is featured in Censored 2005: The Top
25 Censored Stories. She struggles against the Force—both
sides—from
her Life Star in Ann Arbor.
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Mark
McDermott received
a Master of Arts degree in popular culture
from Bowling Green
State University. Mark has contributed several articles to The Guide to
U.S. Popular Culture (Ray B. and Pat Browne, eds.) and the Encyclopedia
of Television (Horace Newcomb, ed.). He has also increased
humanity's
store of knowledge by kicking in entries to Roger Ebert's Little Movie
Glossary and the Internet Movie
Database. He currently works as a Prepress desktop specialist at RR
Donnelley's
Downers Grove, IL, office, raises the World's Cutest Boy with his wife,
and brews beer at home.
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Stephen
P. McVeigh is a lecturer in the Department of American
Studies at the University
of Wales Swansea where he also serves as Academic Director of the War
and Society programs. His book, The American Western, will be
published
in 2006. His essays on cultural history, literature, and cinema have
been published in books such as The
Mediated Presidency (2006) and Clint
Eastwood:
Actor/Director (2006). He also contributes the section
“American Literature 1900–1945” in The Year's Work in English Studies
for Oxford University Press (2003–2005). He is currently working on a
book examining the World War II films, mainstream and propaganda, of
American directors such as John Sturges, John Ford, and John Huston.
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John
Panton
received a Master of Arts degree in European film
studies from Exeter
University, England. He is a lecturer currently teaching film and media
studies in Devon, England. His interest in science fiction has been the
focal point of much of his academic study from university onward, with
a particular focus on 1970s American dystopian film and European
science fiction in general.
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Jennifer E. Porter
is Associate Professor of Religion and Modern Culture in the Religious
Studies Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She
began her career by studying nonmainstream contemporary religious
movements and later combined this interest with a love of science
fiction and popular culture by looking at the religious dimensions of Star Trek and Star Trek fandom. She is the
coeditor (with Darcee
McLaren) of Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations
of Star Trek,
Religion and American Culture (2000). With the
release of the 2001 Jedi census information, she found herself sucked
through a wormhole into the alternate universe of Star Wars fandom and
began to research the influence of Star
Wars on the spirituality of
fans. She hopes to publish a book on the Jedi path at some point in the
near future.
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Andrew Plemmons Pratt is currently
in the MA program in the Department of English Language
and Literature at the University of Virginia. He received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from the University of Virginia in English language and
literature and American studies in 2005. His undergraduate work focused
on issues of art and politics, digital humanities, and visual culture,
and his undergraduate thesis focused on the relation of ACT-UP AIDS
activist graphics to advertising.
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Philip L. Simpson
is
Professor of Communications and Humanities at Brevard Community
College/Palm Bay campus in Florida where he serves as Academic Dean of
Behavioral/Social Sciences and Humanities. He has written a book, Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer
through Contemporary American
Film and Fiction (2000). Book chapters have appeared in Horror Film:
Creating and Marketing Film (2004), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical
Perspectives on Film (2003), Car
Crash Culture (2002), Jack
Nicholson:
Movie Top Ten (2000), and Mythologies
of Violence in Postmodern Media
(1999).
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Rachel
Wagner is the Hundere Teaching Fellow of Religion and
Culture at Oregon State
University in Corvallis, Oregon. She has written several book
chapters and essays about The Matrix
franchise and representations of
violence with religious ideology and was interviewed for the Warner
Bros. documentary “Roots of the Matrix” for the Ultimate Matrix
Collection and Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise.
When not writing, teaching, watching films, or
playing very
average over-the-hill soccer, Wagner spends time with her amazing
twelve-year-old son Isaac, admiring his skill in programming robots,
playing the saxophone, and mastering ever more brilliant feats of
creative engineering and programming.
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Stephanie
J. Wilhelm
specializes in African-American history and literature and has multiple
contributions in the forthcoming multi-volume Oxford African-American
Reference Encyclopedia. She also cowrote an essay for Jacking in
to the
Matrix Franchise (2004) examining the Matrix films from the
perspective
of Cornel West’s prophetic pragmatism. As this essay enters
publication, she will be considering doctoral programs in
African-American history or literature after the completion of her MA
in literature at Wayne State University. She is currently a research
fellow at the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History in New York.
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Information
on the editors, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and John Shelton Lawrence can
be found on the Editors page.
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