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and policing. Recent publications have appeared in Journal o f Gang Research,
Populär Culture Review, and Crime & Delinquency.
Dr. Kenneth Payne has been Professor of English and American Literature at
Kuwait University since 1977. He eamed his PhD ffom Sussex University (UK)
in 1975. He has published over 40 papers in academic joumals. Dr. Payne’s
main scholarly interests are Crime and Mystery fiction—his current research
interests are the supematural fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and Algemon Blackwood.
Alexandra Reuber is a Professor of French and the Director of the French
Language Program at Tulane University, New Orleans, where she teaches
French language, literature, and culture, and gives seminars in language
pedagogy and methodology, as well as in folklore and in comparative literature.
Her research focuses on the development of gothic and fantastic writing from
the nineteenth Century onward, and on the adaptation and transformation of
classical works in populär culture texts and films and their use in the classroom.
Recent publications include “Identity Crisis and Personality Disorders in Edgar
Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” (1839), David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), and
James Mangold’s Identity (2003),” in Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in
International and Populär Culture. Ed. Carl Sederholm and Dennis Perry.
Palgrave-Macmillan, (August 2012), “More Than Just Ghost Lore in a Bad
Place: Mikael Häfström’s Cinematographic Translation of Stephen King’s Short
Story 1408.” published in The Populär Culture Review Vol. 22.2 (2011), and
“How to Use the Pop-Screen in Literary Studies” published in The Journal o f
College Teaching andLearning 7.8 (July 2010).
Daniel Ferreras Savoye is an associate professor of Language, Literature, and
Culture at West Virginia University. His work on the Fantastic, the detective
story, marginalized genres, and populär culture issues, and critical theory has
appeared in French Literature Series, Hispania, Lectura y signo, Angulo Recto
and The Populär Culture Review. He is also the author of Lo Fantastico en la
literatura y en el eine (Vosa, 1996), Cuentos de la mano izquierda (Silente,
1999) and Amor 3.1 (Love 3.1) (Laberinto, 2010) and The Signs o f James Bond:
Semiotic Explorations in the Universe of007 (McFarland, 2013).
H. Peter Steeves is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University where he
specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology. Steeves’
books include, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry
(1998); Animal Others (1999); The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the
Return to the Everyday (2006); and Whacking the Sopranos (2012).