Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Robert Brown teaches twentieth-century American and British literature at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.
David Buchbinder holds a Personal Chair in Masculinities Studies at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts. He has edited Essays in Masculinities Studies 2002 (2003), a collection of undergraduate essays on masculinity; he has published two books, Masculinities and Identities (1994) and Performance Anxieties: Representing Men (1998), and he has published widely in the area of masculinities studies, focusing on the cultural representations, across various genres and media, of men, masculinities, and male sexualities. He has begun work on a third book on masculinity, Studying Men and Masculinities, to be published by Routledge.
Ann McGuire is Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University of Technology. She has published on intertextuality and television comedy, utopianism in new media texts, and most recently, with David Buchbinder, on cultural anxieties in relation to the relativism of post-modernity. She is currently researching spiritualism and mediumistic practices from the nineteenth century onward.
Kit Dobson is an Assistant Professor in Canadian literature and globalization studies at Mount Royal University. Kit holds degrees from the Universities of Victoria, York (UK), and Toronto. His first book, Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization, was published in 2009 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Frédérick Gagnon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), where he teaches American politics and US foreign policy. He is Director of the Center for United States Studies, is the Raoul Dandurand Chair at UQAM, and has been Visiting Professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham (2008), Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2006), Visiting Scholar at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship of University of Maryland (2006), and Fulbright Grantee at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (2005). His research interests include the US Congress, US elections, US culture wars, Quebec-US relations, and the intersections between American politics/US foreign policy and popular culture (films, digital games, cartoons).
Catherine Goulet-Cloutier is Research Fellow for the Raoul Dandurand Chair at the Center for United States Studies at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). She specializes in international-relations theory, security studies, US [End Page iv] foreign policy, and the War on Terror, and in the field of American studies. In 2009, she graduated with a Master's degree in International Relations from UQAM, for which she received Foundation Marc-Bourgie and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Armand-Bombardier scholarships.
Jennifer Harris is Associate Professor of English at Mount Allison University. Her essays have appeared in the journals African American Review, Journal of American Culture, American Transcendental Quarterly, and Resources for American Literary Study, among others, and the anthologies, Women Writers and the Artifact of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century (Ashgate), The Cultural History of Reading (Greenwood), and elsewhere. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at NYU and is the recipient of a SSHRC grant for her current research project on representations of Elizabeth Whitman.
Karen Weingarten is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her work focuses on early-twentieth-century American literature and culture, abortion and reproductive health, and feminist rhetoric. She is currently writing a book tentatively titled Life and Choice: Abortion and the Liberal Individual in Modern America. [End Page v]
