Popular Culture Review Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2009 | Page 160

156 Popular Culture Review Dan C. Shoemaker holds a PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico, and teaches in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. His interests include film, narrative, social history, popular music, and material culture. He comes from a family of collectors and music lovers. H. Peter Steeves is professor of philosophy at DePaul University where he specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology. Steeves’s books include F o u n d in g C o m m u n ity : A P h e n o m e n o lo g ic a l-E th ic a l In q u iry (1998); A n im a l O th e rs (1999); T h e T h in g s T h e m se lv e s: P h e n o m e n o lo g y a n d th e R e tu r n to th e E v e r y d a y (2006); and W h a c k in g th e S o p ra n o s (forthcoming 2009).