MICHELLE ARROW is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, where she teaches Australian history, history and media, and the history of popular culture. Her first book, Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last, was published in 2002 and was short-listed for five national prizes. In 2004 Arrow worked as a television presenter on the ABC-TV history series Rewind. She has published widely on the issues of representing history on television and on histories of aspects of Australian popular culture and its audiences. Her latest book, Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945, was published in 2009.
LEE BARRON is senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Northum-bria University. His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of cultural theories and popular culture, including music, film, television, and celebrity. He is the author of journal articles, book chapters, and reports on popular culture, teaching and learning, and sport. His writings have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, Chapter and Verse, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, and Disability & Society. His recent publications include “The Seven Ages of Kylie Minogue: Postmodernism, Identity, and Performative Mimicry,” Nebula(2008); “The Habitus of Elizabeth Hurley: Celebrity, Fashion and Identity Branding,” in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture(2007); and (with Ian Inglis) “Scary Movies, Scary Music: Uses and Unities of Heavy Metal in the Contemporary Horror Film,” in Music, Sound and Horror Cinema, ed. Philip Hayward and Rebecca Leydon (forthcoming).
KEN DVORAK currently serves as the secretary-treasurer of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association. His research interests include analysis of educational technologies and their influence on teaching and learning, particularly film and television analysis. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture; Journal of American Culture; Journal of Film & History, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film & Television Studies.
LEIGH H. EDWARDS is associate professor of English at Florida State University. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and popular culture, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary American studies and media studies approaches and on intersections of gender and race. She is the author of Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity(2009), which examines how Cash's work and image illuminate key foundational tensions in the history of American thought.
TOBIAS HOCHSCHERF is a lecturer at Northumbria University, where he teaches a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in film and television studies. His research interests focus on European film and television cultures. He is particularly interested in television aesthetics, transnational film practices, and representations of the cold war in film and television. His research has been published widely in academic journals and edited collections. He is area chair and co-organizer of a number of academic conferences in Britain and the United States, and he has spoken about his research at a range of institutions. Raised in Hamburg, Germany, he was spared firsthand experience of British school dinners.
SU HOLMES is Reader in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s (2005), Entertaining TV: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s(2008), and The Quiz Show(2008). She is currently working on a monograph on the seminal 1974 documentary serial The Family (After Reality TV: Revisiting The Family), and is coeditor of Understanding Reality TV(2004), Framing Celebrity(2006), and Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader(2007). Her key research interests are in British TV history, popular TV genres, and celebrity.
CASSANDRA JONES is a doctoral candidate in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include racial and gendered embodiment in digital spaces.
JAMES LEGGOTT lectures in film and television studies at Northumbria University. He has published on various aspects of British film and television culture, such as traditions of social realism, regional cultures, and contemporary cinema. His research interests also include science fiction in film and television, literary adaptations, and reality television. He is the owner of three Jamie Oliver cookbooks.
SARAH A. MATHESON teaches film and popular culture in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her recent work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Film and History, and in the anthology Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television.
FRED NADIS is the author of Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America(2005). He has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas and writes about technology and culture.
DEBBIE CLARE OLSON is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University. Her most recent publication is “Lu jot bèt bi? African Visual Rhetoric and the Search for Authenticity,” in Facts, Fictions, and African Creative Imaginations, edited by Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom (2009), the first volume in Routledge's new series on African studies.
SAYANTI GANGULY PUCKETT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. She specializes in seventeenth-to nineteenth-century British literature and nineteenth-century colonial Indian literature.
LAURIE RUPERT is a doctoral candidate at Oklahoma State University. Her area of focus is nineteenth-century American literature; however, she has published and presented a number of papers in the area of film. She is currently employed as a seventh grade English teacher at Ford Middle School in Allen, Texas.
AURORA SCHEELINGS is an independent filmmaker and doctorial candidate at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
JULIE ANNE TADDEO currently is a Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland-College Park. She previously taught at Temple University and University of California at Berkeley, where she also was the Assistant Director of the Center for British Studies. Her courses specialize in Victorian and twentieth-century British culture, gender, and class. She is the author of Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity(2002) and several articles on British modernism, sexuality, and twentieth-century popular culture. Her current projects include edited books on reality TV and the British novelist Catherine Cookson.