Contributors
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Sarah Banet-Weiser
Sarah Banet-Weiser is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. She is the author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (1999) and has written on media, popular culture, gender, race, and national identity. Her forthcoming book, Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship, explores the relationship between youth, media, and consumer citizenship in the Nickelodeon cable network.
Lauren Boehm
Lauren Boehm earned a BS from the School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University. In the fall, she will begin the doctoral program in English at Stanford University.
Bill Brown
Bill Brown is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Department of English, the Department of Visual Arts, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. He served as associate dean of humanities from 1998 to 2002; he has been a coeditor of Critical Inquiry since 1993; and he currently serves as chair of the Department of English. He is the author of The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (1996), Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Novels (1997), and A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003). He edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on "Things" (2001), which won the CELJ award for the year's best special issue of a scholarly journal and has been published as a book (2004).
Lynn Schofield Clark
Lynn Schofield Clark is assistant professor and director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She is author of From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (2003) and editor of Religion, Media, and the Marketplace (2007). [End Page 551]
Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is an associate professor at Cornell University, where he teaches in the ILR School as well as the Program in American Studies and the Department of History. His first book, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (1999), was awarded the 2000 Taft Prize for Labor History. He is the coeditor, with Joseph Heathcott, of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (2003). Cowie is at work on Last Days of the Working-Class: Social History, Politics, and Pop in the 1970s.
Theresa Delgadillo
Theresa Delgadillo is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is working on a study of spiritual mestizaje in Chicana narrative that examines the intersections of race, religion, gender, and transnation.
Yen Le Espiritu
Yen Le Espiritu is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, Filipino American Lives, Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love, and Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, three of which have received national book awards. Her current research projects explore the socio-emotional lives of children of immigrants from the Philippines and Vietnam, refugee communities in San Diego, public commemorations of the Vietnam War, and Vietnamese transnational lives.
Duncan Faherty
Duncan Faherty is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. He is working on a book project titled "A Game of Architectural Consequences": The American House and the Formation of National Identity, 1776-1858.
Amy Farrell
Amy Farrell is associate professor and chair of American Studies at Dickinson College. She is the author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism and is working on a book, titled Fat Shame, that explores fat denigration and the diet industries in the United States. [End Page 552]
Thomas W. Kim
Thomas W. Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His dissertation focuses on various mass cultural representations of American Orientalism during the late nineteenth century. His previous publications on contemporary Asian American literature and racial politics in the academy have appeared in MELUS and the minnesota review.
Rob Kroes
Rob Kroes is professor emeritus and former chair of the American studies program at...
