Ellen Dupree is a member of the English faculty at the University of Nevada,
Reno, where she teaches American literature and literary theory. Her work is on
early twentieth-century writers, especially Edith Wharton and Sinclair Lewis.
Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, the Edith
Wharton Review, American Literaiy Realism, and Midwestern Miscellany.
Carol-Ann Farkas is an assistant professor of English and Writing Program
Coordinator at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in
Boston, MA. Her research interests include Writing Center theory and practice,
Victorian fiction, and representations of women’s health and fitness in popular
culture.
Jeffrey Johnson is a Ph.D candidate at Michigan State University in the
Department of American Studies. His areas of interest include cold war history,
modem American mythology, globalization, and advertising. Besides his
doctorial pursuit, he also works as an editorial assistant for The Journal of
Popular Culture.
Christopher F. Johnston is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Culture Studies
Program at Bowling Green State University. Mr. Johnston’s research focuses on
race and visual culture in the United States. His dissertation will examine the
role of racial performativity in the life and artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Alison Pearlman is the author of Unpackaj^ing Art of the 1980s (University of
Chicago Press, 2003) and numerous essays on contemporary art and consumer
culture (selectively featured on www.alisonpearlman.com). She lives in Los
Angeles, and teaches modern and contemporary art and design history at the
California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.
Dennis Russell is an associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where he
specializes in mass-mediated popular culture and film, and literary and music
analysis. Russell has published articles in Popular Culture Review, Studies in
Popular Culture, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Southwestern Mass
Communication Journal, and The Mind's Eye: A Liberal Arts Journal.
William N. Thompson is a professor of public administration at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses upon the gaming industry and his
most recent book is Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of Histoiy Issues
and Society (ABC-Clio, 2001). He has made several presentations to the Far
West Popular Culture Conferences and his previous articles in Popular Culture
Review include studies of the music of Tom T. Hall and Hank Snow.