From the Editor’s Desk
Perusing several hundred CVs of applicants for new faculty
positions in UNLV’s English department, I was struck by the
preponderance of those listing some form of Popular Culture as, at least,
an auxiliary interest. This would have been unheard of twenty-five years
ago when Popular Culture Review was launched as the organ of the Far
West Popular and American Culture Associations, and Popular Culture
studies were barely tolerated by the mor