JENNIFER ANDREWS is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. She has published numerous articles on English-Canadian and American literatures, and is the co-author of Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions (2003). Her latest book is In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry (2011).
PÉTER BALOGH is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at Carleton University. He is completing his dissertation on the changing notions of quarantine in regards to queer bodies, space, and time in Canada through an analysis of dominant discursive practices during the last three decades. Péter works as a sessional lecturer in Ottawa; his research interests include mystery fiction, the discursive construction of monsters, contagions and (national) borders, post-colonial theory, and queer theory.
PAMELA BEDORE is an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point. She teaches classes in popular fiction, Canadian and American literature, and gender theory. She is the author of Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Palgrave, 2013), and her articles on popular literature and writing have appeared in venues such as Popular Culture Studies, Foundations, and Writing Program Administration Journal.
PATRICIA GRUBEN is a filmmaker, playwright, and associate professor of film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She has written and directed several short dramas, documentaries, and feature films, and has recently published articles on narrative structure in films by Renny Bartlett, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Atom Egoyan, and Bruce McDonald, as well as work on Indian cinema.
BRIAN JOHNSON is associate professor of English at Carleton University, where he teaches literary theory and Canadian literature. Recent publications include essays on masculinity and ethnicity in Mordecai Richler’s novels of apprenticeship and on the discourse of northern Gothic in Farley Mowat’s Viking fantasies. His current research concerns the poetics and cultural politics of medievalism in early Canadian literature.
MANINA JONES is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the co-author with Priscilla Walton of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition (1999), author of That Art of Difference: Documentary Collage and English-Canadian Writing (1993), co-editor with Marta Dvorak of Carol Shields and the Extraordinary (2007), and co-editor with Diana Brydon, Jessica Schagerl, and Kristen Warder of a special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing on poetics and public culture. She has published a variety of essays on detective fiction and Canadian literature.
BERYL LANGER is in social sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She developed an interest in Canadian literature and cultural politics while studying for a PhD in sociology at the University of Toronto in the 1970s. She worked on Canadian crime fiction in the 1990s.
SARAH A. MATHESON is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and the graduate program in popular culture at Brock University. Her main areas of research and teaching have been in film and popular culture with a special focus on Canadian television studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Canadian Television: Text and Context (2011) and has published several articles on the representation of Toronto in Canadian television.
MARILYN ROSE is a professor of English at Brock University. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Canadian literature and has published essays on Florence Livesay, Anne Marriott, P. K. Page, and Lorna Crozier. Her work on Canadian crime fiction includes publications and presentations on Howard Engel and Gail Bowen (with Jeannette Sloniowski), as well as investigations of the anti-detective paradigm in the fiction of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.
LEWIS DAVID SKENE-MELVIN is a retired librarian and a literary historian. His publications include Crime, Detective, Espionage, Mystery, and Thriller Fiction and Film: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Critical Writing through 1979 (with Ann Skene-Melvin, 1980), anthologies of crime short fiction by Canadians; and Canadian Crime Fiction: An Annotated Comprehensive Bibliography of Canadian Crime Writing from 1817 to 1996 and Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Crime Writers (with Norbert Spehner, 1996). He has donated 3,000 items of critical and reference material relating to crime fiction and film to Brock University.
JEANNETTE SLONIOWSKI is associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and the graduate program in popular culture at Brock University. Her publications include Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (2013, 2nd ed.), Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentary (2003), and Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture (2002). She is currently working on a monograph on Dragnet, the well-known American police procedural.
LINDSAY STEENBERG is senior lecturer in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on violence and gender in postmodern and post-feminist media culture. She has published on the subjects of the crime genre and reality television and is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science (2012).
YVONNE TASKER is professor of film and television studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She has published widely on aspects of gender and popular culture. Her publications include the anthologies Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (with Diane Negra, 2007), Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), and Soldiers’ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since WWII (2011). A new anthology, Gendering the Recession (with Diane Negra) is forthcoming with Duke University Press.
PRISCILLA L. WALTON is professor of English at Carleton University. She is the author of Our Cannibals, Ourselves: The Body Politic (2004), Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse: A Lacanian Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels (1995), and The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James (1992). She is the co-author, along with Manina Jones, of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition (1999), and, along with Jennifer Andrews and Arnold E. Davidson, of Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions (2003). She co-edited Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada (1999), and edited the Everyman Paperback edition of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996). She has also published numerous articles and is the editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. She is currently working with Sheryl Hamilton, Neil Gerlach, and Rebecca Sullivan on a project called Biotechnological Imaginings: From Science Fiction to Social Fact.