About the Editor and Contributors

EDITOR

Ann M. Savage, PhD, is Professor of Critical Communication and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. She earned her PhD from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Dr. Savage teaches courses on queer film, women and rock, documentary film, and media literacy. Her research focuses on feminist and queer media studies. Her work has appeared in the Journal for Excellence in Teaching, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. She is the author of They’re Playing Our Songs: Women Talk about Feminist Rock Music (2003, Praeger).

CONTRIBUTORS

Dorian Adams is an independent researcher in Philadelphia. Their recent work includes designing professional development curricula about transgender issues at Drexel University, as well as speaking presentations on the history and current issues facing transgender students in higher education.

Jamie Anderson is a journalist and musician and writes about music when she isn’t doing her own. Her work has appeared in Acoustic Guitar, Curve, and Sing Out! She is the author of a memoir, Drive All Night, and is currently working on her second book, about women’s music of the 1970s and 1980s.

Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison holds a doctorate in women’s studies from Clark University and has been teaching as an adjunct professor in sociology, Africana studies, communications and gender/women’s studies at various colleges and universities in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

Katie Sullivan Barak is an independent scholar in Denver, Colorado. She has a PhD in American culture studies and a master’s in popular culture from Bowling Green State University. By day she works in higher ed administration; by night she researches media representations of gender and class.

Dylan Bennett is an associate professor of political science at University of Wisconsin–Waukesha. A former newspaper writer, he teaches a variety of courses in world politics.

Jessica E. Birch is a lecturer in Case Western Reserve University’s English Department/SAGES, and she has a PhD in American studies from Purdue University. Her teaching and research focus on how cultural narratives justify and perpetuate social inequality.

Rebecca Bishop is an independent scholar and educator based in Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD in interdisciplinary cross-cultural research and has expertise in the cultural politics of embodiment, digital cultures, and sexuality.

Ebru Cayir is a physician from Turkey who is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior of Arnold School of Public Health in the University of South Carolina. She is also a certificate student at the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Casely E. Coan is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric, Composition and Teaching of English Program at the University of Arizona. She holds a master’s degree in women’s and gender studies from Rutgers University. Her work resides at the intersection of transgender studies, queer theory, and the rhetorics of performance.

Sarah E. Colonna is the associate faculty chair for Grogan College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With a background in health care, women’s and gender studies, and educational leadership, her research interests include feminist thought and pedagogy, leadership, and young adult literature.

Jayda Coons is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Her research and teaching interests include 19th-century British literature, feminist theory, the novel, and psychoanalysis.

Angeline Davis has an MAT in English from Coastal Carolina University and is currently earning an MA in English from Morehead State. She is a domestic violence survivor and a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and has been a full-time English instructor at Brown Mackie College–Louisville since 2010.

Christine DeCleene is currently a graduate student in the field of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She received her M.A. in sociology from Sam Houston University. Her research interests are in the area of African American studies.

Jennifer deWinter is an associate professor of rhetoric and the Director of Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and an associate in research at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. She researches game development, game distribution, and Japanese popular culture in global markets.

Nessette Falu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at CUNY Graduate Center.

Skye de Saint Felix is a master’s candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville. Her primary academic interests are rhetoric and gender theory, specifically the social and political consequences of public discourse on abortion and reproductive health.

Kate L. Flach is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at The University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, “Channeling Dissent: Prime-Time Television and Social Change in Post-War America,” examines the politics of television from the 1950s–1970s as a medium that reflected and mediated social change.

Dr. Eden Elizabeth Wales Freedman is an assistant professor of multicultural American literature and diversity studies at Mount Mercy University (Cedar Rapids, Indiana) and an affiliate assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has published articles on the novels of William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison.

Sarah E. Fryett, PhD, is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Tampa. Her recent work includes an analysis of female comedians (“Laudable Laughter” in Introduction to Women’s Studies Reader) and a forthcoming essay on the representation of lesbian identity in the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black.

Dr. Sanjukta Ghosh is professor of communication at Castleton University in Vermont. Her research and teaching is focused on race, gender, and sexuality. A founding member of the university’s women’s and gender studies program, she also served as its coordinator for eight years.

Eduardo Gregori (PhD in Spanish, Penn State, 2009) is Associate Professor of Spanish and of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Marathon County. He has published on modernist and avant-garde Spanish culture. His current research interests deal with the imbrication of masculinity and the avant-garde in Spain.

Elizabeth Groeneveld is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Old Dominion University. Her book, Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (2016), examines the relationship between social movements and independent publishing in the 1990s.

Mariana Grohowski is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University Southeast. She received her PhD in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University (Ohio). Her research explores the rhetorical practices of under- and misrepresented populations, including women veterans. She is founder and chief editor of the Journal of Veterans Studies.

Aurora Grutman is an independent writer who lives in New York City.

Allison L. Harthcock, PhD (University of Missouri–Columbia), is an associate professor at Butler University in Indiana. Her teaching and research focuses on the relationship between sports media and identity.

Emily L. Hiltz is a PhD candidate and Instructor of Communication within the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.

Christina Holmes, PhD, is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at DePauw University. Her book Ecological Borderlands (University of Illinois Press, 2016) addresses Mexican American women’s environmental activism.

Erica Horhn is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include African American womanhood and humor. She earned an MA in English and African American literature from North Carolina A&T State University (2009).

Daniela Hrzán is in the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin and the Office of Women’s Affairs and Equal Opportunities, University of Kassel, Germany.

Stephanie Leo Hudson is affiliated with the Cultural Foundations and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Eleanor M. Huntington graduated with her Master’s in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California. She currently works in cause marketing in Los Angeles.

Dr. Terri Jett has a BA in Ethnic Studies and a Master’s in Public Administration from California State University, Hayward, and a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from Auburn University. Currently she is an associate professor of political science and affiliate faculty member of the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Priya Jha is Associate Professor of English at the University of Redlands. Her work focuses on postcolonialism and transculturalism in South Asian, Caribbean, and African literatures and cultures. A book chapter, entitled, “Mother, Insider: Katherine Mayo and the Problem of Transnational Feminism” is forthcoming in a collected volume, What Is Feminism? (Bloomsbury Press).

Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou is an associate lecturer in film and television at the University of Reading, UK. She is the coeditor of Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present (Peter Lang, 2016) and the author of ‘Women Screenwriters: Greece’ in Women Screenwriters: an international guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Holly M. Kent is an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois–Springfield, where she teaches courses in U.S. women’s history, nineteenth-century U.S. history, and slavery and abolition. Her monograph, Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Literature, is forthcoming from Kent State University Press.

Tala Khanmalek received her PhD in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Carly Kocurek is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies and Director of Digital Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Her research considers the intersections of games, gender, and culture.

Evan L. Kropp, PhD, is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Reinhardt University.

Jennifer Hall Lee is a filmmaker, writer, and speaker. Her award-winning documentary film “Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation” is distributed by Women Make Movies. She has been published in anthologies, including “Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox.”

Linda Levitt is an associate professor of communication at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her research interests focus on the intersection of cultural memory and media. She has published essays about the depiction of women scientists in 1950s movies, mothers of evil children in Hollywood thrillers, and growing up as a reluctant feminist.

Melinda Lewis earned her PhD in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University in 2014. Her dissertation, “That’s What She Said: Politics, Transgression, and Women’s Humor in Contemporary American Television,” discussed the ways in which women writers have helped form and transform the American sitcom. She is currently a visiting fellow at Drexel University.

Grace Lidinsky-Smith is an undergraduate at Indiana University. She is studying environmental feminist geography. She has presented at the 2015 Seneca Falls convention and the 2014 Indiana University Gender Studies Conference. She has also been published in Kinsey Confidential.

Brooke Lober is Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. Her research addresses relations between late 20th-century U.S.-based feminist, anticolonial, and anti-imperialist activist formations. In partnership with the Freedom Archives in San Francisco, Lober currently directs the Women Against Imperialism Oral History Project.

Rachel R. Martin is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. She has published in Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on Comics, Poetry and Prose (McFarland & Co, 2012). Currently, she is working on the manuscript entitled Alison Bechdel: Conversations, due out in early 2017 (University Press of Mississippi).

Angel Daniel Matos is a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in English at Bowdoin College, interested in young adult literature, affect, narrative, and LGBTQ fiction and media. He obtained his PhD in English with a graduate minor in gender studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Andrea McClanahan, PhD, is a professor of communication and the coordinator of Women & Gender Studies at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in communication, media, and feminist theory. Her research focuses on critical analysis of media representations.

Maggie Monson earned her BA in Critical Communications and Media Studies at Butler University. She currently works in Global Employee Communications at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Heidi Abbey Moyer is the Archivist and Humanities Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections at the Penn State Harrisburg Library in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and a tenured faculty librarian with the Penn State University Libraries. She is the author of Penn State Harrisburg (Arcadia Publishing, 2016).

Monica Murtaugh has a master’s degree in women’s studies from San Diego State University.

Madelyn Tucker Pawlowski is an English PhD student at the University of Arizona, where she also teaches composition. In 2010, she completed an internship at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Viki Peer is currently pursuing an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida and is interested in feminism and disability, LGBTQ issues, race and racism in America, motherhood, and prison abolition.

Krista L. Prince works professionally in student affairs while concurrently pursuing doctoral work in educational studies and women’s and gender studies. She is a past directorate member of the Coalition for Women’s Identities with American College Personnel Association-College Student Educators International.

Michele Ren is an associate professor of English and the associate director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.

Erica Robak is a graduate student of the English Literature Department at Morehead State University.

Jeanette Sewell is a cataloging and metadata librarian at a public library in Houston, Texas. She is published in More Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (2015, Information Today Inc.) and gives presentations on a variety of topics related to libraries and digital projects.

Andie Shabbar is a PhD candidate and lecturer at Western University, Canada. Her research focuses on queer-feminist public artwork and its capacity to mobilize political action through affect, autonomous networks, and antiauthoritarian politics. She teaches courses on digital media, gender, virtual worlds, and new media art.

Leah Shafer is an assistant professor of Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she teaches courses on television and new media. Her work has appeared in: Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, and Teaching Media Quarterly.

Suzan Neda Soltani is a professional in the field of social work and public health. Her work includes counseling at-risk children and victims of domestic violence. She has collaborated with the Women’s Well-Being Initiative of the University of South Carolina to divert female adolescents from entering the juvenile justice system.

Giuliana Sorce is a PhD candidate in the College of Communications and Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research centers feminist media studies and international communication. Sorce’s work has appeared in the Global Media Journal, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Feminist Media Studies.

Kristin A. Swenson (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an associate professor in critical communication and media studies, and an affiliated faculty member in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department at Butler University. She is the author of Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family (Peter Lang, 2013).

Mary Thompson is Associate Professor of English and the coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at James Madison University, where she teaches courses in women’s literature and feminist theory. Her research examines popular and literary representations of reproductive justice issues.

Samantha L. Vandermeade is a PhD student in Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She earned a Master of Arts in history at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, belonging, nationalism, and religion in American history and politics.

Lori Walters-Kramer is an assistant professor of communication studies at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. She earned her PhD from Bowling Green State University, where her focus on feminist rhetoric and women’s studies culminated in the dissertation “Performing Emancipatory Rhetorics: The Possibilities of Michelle Shocked’s Musics, Discourses and Movements.”

Sarah Wyman is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. As a faculty affiliate in women, gender, and sexuality studies, she teaches courses on contemporary poetry and women’s writing.