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221 Notes on Contributors Markus A. Carpenter Markus A. Carpenter graduated from Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, Ohio, in 1985 with a degree in Sociology & Religion. Following two years of study at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, he was an instructor of English at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from 1990–2001, earning an M.A. in Post Colonial Literature in 2001. Presently a senior instructor in ESL at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal, he has been an active member of the Portuguese Association of AngloAmerican studies since 1995 and a major contributor to “Values Education European Module” (2003–4). Working with native speakers, he has recently completed a Portuguese translation of Ray Bradbury’s play, “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit,” and is writing a dissertation on the cinematic adaptations of Bradbury’s works. Jonathan R. Eller Jonathan R. Eller (B.S., United States Air Force Academy; B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University), a retired U.S. Air Force officer, is Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of American Studies, and Associate Director of Indiana University’s Institute for American Thought. He is also a resident scholar in the Institute’s Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. Professor Eller has edited the texts for two volumes in the Writings of Charles S. Peirce (Indiana Univ. Press, 1980–), and has published bibliographical studies of Ray Bradbury, Joseph Heller, and Robert Penn Warren. He has edited a restored four-text edition of Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree (Gauntlet, 2005) and was textual editor for Match to Flame (Gauntlet, 2006), a collection of the stories and manuscripts related to Fahrenheit 451. Most recently, Professor Eller edited a limited edition of Dandelion Wine (PS Publishing, 2007) and Summer Morning, Summer Night (PS Publishing, 2007), a companion volume of stories and story fragments discarded from Bradbury’s earliest DandelionWine and Farewell Summer manuscripts. He is the coauthor, with William F. Touponce, of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press, 2004). Professor Eller is now working on Becoming Ray Bradbury, a book-length study of Bradbury’s reading life and development as a multimedia author through the first two decades of his professional career. David Mogen David Mogen (B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder) teaches American frontier literature, Native American literature, and interdisciplinary courses integrating the arts and sciences in the English Department at Colorado State University. His publications include Wilderness Visions: The Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature (1985; 1993), Ray Bradbury (1986), and two coedited antholo- The New Ray Bradbury Review 222 gies of original essays: The Frontier Experience and the American Dream (1989) and Frontier Gothic (1993). Recently he has completed a personal memoir manuscript entitled Honyocker Dreams, about growing up in Montana and frontier heritage. Phil Nichols Phil Nichols is the Course Leader for Video & Film Production at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. His research into Bradbury’s work in all media is documented on his website and blog, located at www.bradburymedia .co.uk. Contact: phil@bradburymedia.co.uk. William F. Nolan William F. Nolan is the author or editor of some 80 books in a career that has spanned more than half a century. His work has been featured in 325 anthologies and textbooks worldwide. Among his science fiction titles are Logan’s Run, its two sequel novels, and the “Sam Space” Mars-detective series; he has also published many excellent science fiction and fantasy short stories, and edited a number of well-received anthologies of science fiction and fantasy. His contributions to the field of mystery writing include the Black Mask detective series and two studies of Dashiell Hammett, as well as a two-act stage play on Hammett. He is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award. In 2002 he received the “Living Legend” Award from the International Horror Guild and was voted “Author Emeritus” in 2006 by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Nolan has also written extensively for film and television. His Ray Bradbury Review (1952) and Ray Bradbury Companion (1975), along with dozens of other introductions, prefaces, and bibliographical checklists, have provided two generations of Bradbury readers and scholars with a point of departure for the study of Bradbury’s life and fiction. John. C. Tibbetts John C. Tibbetts is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in film history, media studies, and theory and aesthetics. A Kansas native, he...