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152 Popular Culture Review 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).