About the Authors

M. Keith Booker is professor of English and director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has written or edited more than forty books on literature and popular culture, including Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animated Series from The Flintstones to Family Guy (2006) and Historical Dictionary of American Cinema (2011). Booker is the coeditor of the Cultural History of Television series for Rowman & Littlefield and coauthor (with Bob Batchelor) of Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

 

Isra Daraiseh, a native of Indiana who grew up in Jordan, holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Arkansas. Her varied research interests include nineteenth-century British and Russian literature, but her current work focuses on the intersection of American and Middle Eastern popular culture.