Contributors
- Contributors
Tim Blackmore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. He is currently finishing a book about war technologies and usually writes on war, trauma, SF, and technology. However, he reads comics a lot, and sometimes writes about them, too.
Paul Budra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. His most recent book—The Mirror for Magistrates and the de casibus Tradition—was published in 2001, and he co-edited Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel. He has published articles on Renaissance literature and twentieth-century popular culture.
Francis Langlois received his MA in 2001 from l'Université de Montréal for his masters thesis, "Jesse James, de combattant confédéré à héros légendaire, son rôle dans la création de son propre mythe. " He is now working on his doctoral thesis, with the working title "The Role of the Other in Shaping Nationalism: Representation of the United States in Canadian Newspapers, 1950-1980," under the direction of Fernande Roy. He currently teaches American history at Cégep de Trois-Rivières.
Craig Monk is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. His essays on interdisciplinary modernism have appeared in journals like American Studies International, the Canadian Review of American Studies, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Miscelanea, and Mosaic. He is currently at work on Expatriate Autobiography and the Character of Modernism, a study of "Lost Generation" memoirs.
Robert H. Zieger is Distinguished Professor of History, University of Florida. He is the author of The CIO, 1935-1955 (1995); American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (with Gilbert J. Gall; 3d ed., 2002); and America's Great War: The American Experience in World War I (2000). He teaches courses in Twentieth-Century US History; US Labor History; and Communism, Culture, and Containment. This essay is part of a project titled "In Pursuit of National Purpose."
