Contributors
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Matt Delmont
Matt Delmont is an assistant professor of American studies at Scripps College. His research and teaching areas include popular culture and media studies, urban history, education, and comparative ethnic studies. He is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Matthew Pratt Guterl is an associate professor of African American & African diaspora studies and director of American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Color of Race in America (2001), American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008), and the co-editor, with James T. Campbell and Robert G. Lee, of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (2007).
Jodi Kim
Jodi Kim is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her book, Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in its “Critical American Studies” Series in 2010.
David Kinkela
David Kinkela is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, Fredonia, where he teaches environmental and urban history. He is currently revising his book manuscript, “Opening Pandora’s Box: DDT and the American Century.” He is also a co-editor of a special issue on transnational environmental history for the Radical History Review, “Transnational Environments: The Political Economy of Nature in a Global Age,” which will be published in spring 2010.
Katherine Kinney
Katherine Kinney teaches U.S. literature and film in the English department at the University of California, Riverside. The author of Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2000), she is currently [End Page 997] working on a book on movie culture and the 1960s. She is a former associate editor of American Quarterly.
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Priscilla Peña Ovalle teaches film and media studies as an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Oregon. After studying film and interactive media production at Emerson College, she received her PhD from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television while collaborating with the Labyrinth Project at the Annenberg Center for Communication. Ovalle’s book, Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom, is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press (2010).
Malini Johar Schueller
Malini Johar Schueller is a professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism from Franklin to Kingston (1992), U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature 1780–1880 (1998), and Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship (2009) and co-editor of Messy Begininings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies (2003), Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (2007), and Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (2009).
Cotten Seiler
Cotten Seiler is an associate professor and chair of American Studies at Dickinson College. The author of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America (Chicago, 2008), he is currently writing on expressions of “sameness” across a range of discourses in the late twentieth century.
Grace Wang
Grace Wang is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is currently working on a book that examines the role that music plays in processes of Asian American racial formation.
Rebecca Wanzo
Rebecca Wanzo is an associate professor of English and Women’s Studies at Ohio State University. Her book The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling (SUNY, 2009) examines how suffering citizens succeed or fail in gaining affective agency in U.S. culture. Her next project, The Melancholic Patriot, explores racial melancholia in graphic storytelling featuring African Americans. [End Page 998]
