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Barbara Fowles Mates, Ph.D is chairperson of the Department of Communication
Arts and Professor of Broadcasting at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University. Her teaching and research are focused on the sociocultural influences
o f mass media. Prior to joining the faculty at Post, Dr. Fowles Mates taught at
Fordham University and served for several years as Director of Research at
Children’s Television Workshop in New York. She resides on Long Island and has
one son.
Dennis Russell is Associate Professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
and Telecommunication at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. in
Communication from the University of Utah and specializes in popular culture,
First Amendment law, and mass media history.
Lawrence Saez is a visiting scholar at the Center for International and Area Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in South Asian politics
and American government. He has taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Georgeteown
University, and the New School of Social Research.
Robert L. Schichler is a Professor of English at Arkansas State University. He is
Editor of “Abstracts of Papers in Anglo-Saxon Studies” in Old English Newsletter
and has written several articles on Beowulf. Among his works touching on topics
of popular culture are his book King o f the Once Wild Frontier and short story
“Buffalo Bull,” which appeared in Viet Nam Generation.
Robert Sickels currently lives in Walla Walla, Washington with his wife, Rebecca,
and their cat, Minnie Mae. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Whitman
College, where he teaches Film and Literature Courses. In addition to his ongoing
research work on Western Film and Literature he is an avid cyclist and fisherman.
Jennifer S. Ttottle teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego
State University. Her publications include The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter
and “Rewriting the West Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Owen Wister, and The
Sexual Politics of Neurasthenia,” in The Mixed Legacy o f Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
ed. Catherine Golden and Joanna Zangrando (Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 2000).