About the Contributors
DIANE F. ALTERS is an editor at the Denver Post, covering education and religion. She is coauthor, with Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, of Media, Home, and Family.
GAYNOR BAGNALL is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture at the University of Salford, UK. He is coauthor, with Michael Savage and Brian Longhurst, of Globalization and Belonging.
DENISE D. BIELBY is Professor of Sociology and affiliate of the Center for Film, Television, and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coauthor, with C. Lee Harrington, of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life and Popular Culture: Production and Consumption.
S. ELIZABETH BIRD is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is the author of For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids; The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World (winner of Best Book Award, International Communication Association, 2004); and editor of Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture.
WILL BROOKER is Field Leader in Film Studies at Kingston University, London. He is author of several books, including Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon and Using the Force: Creativity, Community, and Star Wars Fans, and editor of The Audience Studies Reader and The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic.
PATRICK BURKART is Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Media Studies at Texas A & M University. He is coauthor, with Tom McCourt, of Digital Music Wars: The Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox.
DANIEL CAVICCHI is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. He is author of Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans and coeditor of My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life.
BERTHA CHIN is a doctoral candidate at the School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. Her thesis is tentatively titled Exploring the Customs of Gifts and Governance in Online Fan Fiction, and she has previously published in Intensities: Journal of Cult Media.
ANNE CIECKO is Associate Professor specializing in international cinema in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is editor of Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame.
MELISSA A. CLICK is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently teaches at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her thesis examines Martha Stewart Living.
NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is author or editor of six books, including Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies; Media Rituals: A Critical Approach; and Listening beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World.
GARRY CRAWFORD is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. He is author of Consuming Sport: Sport, Fans, and Culture.
VICTORIA K. GOSLING is Lecturer in Sociology in the Division of Politics and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She has published in Sociology and Sociological Research Online.
JONATHAN GRAY is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is author of Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality.
C. LEE HARRINGTON is Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program at Miami University. She is coauthor, with Denise Bielby, of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life and Popular Culture: Production and Consumption.
MATT HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. He is author of Fan Cultures; The Pleasures of Horror; and How to Do Things with Cultural Theory.
HENDRY JENKINS is Director of Comparative Media Studies and the Deflorez Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide; Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture; Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture; and The Children’s Culture Reader.
DEREK JOHNSON is a doctoral candidate in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published in Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, and Matthew McAllister’s collection, Films and Comics.
HUNJU LEE is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
BRAIN LONGHURST is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Media, and Social Sciences at the University of Salford, UK. He is coauthor, with Nicholas Abercrombie, of Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination and, with Michael Savage and Gaynor Bagnall, Globalization and Belonging.
LAWRENCE B. McBRIDE is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his M.A. from the University of South Florida in 2005 for a thesis entitled Professional Wrestling, Embodied Morality, and Altered States of Consciousness.
TOM McCOURT is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is author of Conflicting Communication Interests in America: The Case of National Public Radio and coauthor, with Patrick Burkart, of Digital Music Wars: The Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox.
ALAN McKEE is thirty-four, gym fit, cute, Scottish, and currently single. For a photo, email a.mckee@qut.edu.au.
ROBERTA PEARSON has been a Star Trek fan from her teens and a member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH) from her twenties. Her love of television is equalled only by Homer Simpson’s. Despite this, she has managed to produce a few books and articles and to be appointed as the Director of the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham.
ASWIN PUNATHAMBEKAR is a doctoral candidate in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published in Biblio; International Journal of Cultural Studies; and Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, and is currently coediting an anthology on Bollywood cinema and culture.
JASON RUTTER is Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester, UK. He is author, with Jo Bryce, of Understanding Digital Games.
CORNAL SANDVOSS is Lecturer and Subject Leader in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Surrey, UK. He is author of Fans: The Mirror of Consumption and A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television, and Globalisation and coeditor, with Alina Bernstein and Michael Real, of the forthcoming Bodies of Discourse: Sports Stars, Mass Media, and the Global Public.
MIKE SAVAGE is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, where he is Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. His recent books include, with Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst, Globalization and Belonging.
CHRISTINE SCODARI is Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Among her recent publications is Serial Monogamy: Soap Opera, Lifespan, and the Gendered Politics of Fantasy.
JEFFREY SCONCE is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. He is author of Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television and editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics.
VIVI THEODOROPOULOU is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work is included in Broadcasting and Convergence: New Articulations of the Public Service Remit and The Digital Challenge: Media and Democracy.
JOHN TULLOCH is Research Professor and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. His recent books include Trevor Griffiths; One Day in July: Experiencing 7/7; Shakespe are and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their Audiences; and, with Deborah Lupton, Risk and Everyday Life.
REBECCA TUSHNET is Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She has published in The Yale Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and others.