About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Cynthia Barounis (cbarounis@wustl.edu) holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St Louis. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Visual Culture, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Disability Studies Reader. Her research focuses on the representational intersections of queerness, disability, and masculinity in twentieth-century American literature and culture.
Tom Coogan (t.a.coogan@bham.ac.uk) is a Teaching Fellow in Management at the University of Birmingham’s Business School. He currently teaches on the BSc (Hons) in Business Management and the MSc in International Business at Birmingham Business School, as well as the MA in Medical Humanities and the MA in Mass Communications at the University of Leicester. His inter-disciplinary research in disability studies has included work on literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, marketing, and management.
Moritz Fink (moritz.fink@gmail.com) is a doctoral candidate in American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Munich (LMU); the dissertation project explores the television series The Simpsons in relation to convergence culture. His areas of interest include film and media studies, cultural studies, disability studies, visual culture, political humor, and satire.
Alan Foley (afole4@gmail.com) is an associate professor in the School of Education and core faculty in the Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. His work focuses on the creation and use of innovative inclusive learning technologies. He teaches classes in assistive and adaptive technology, and has extensive experience in web design, universal design, and technology development.
Rebecca Mallett (R.Mallett@shu.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in Education and Disability Studies and is allied with the Cultural, Communication, and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She leads the BA (Hons) Education and Disability Studies and is coordinator for the Disability Research Forum. Her main areas of research include disability in popular culture, interpretative strategies within cultural disability studies, and the commodification of impairment.
Brett Mills (Brett.Mills@uea.ac.uk) is Head of the School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, and a member of media@uea. He is the author of Television Sitcom (2005) and The Sitcom (2009), and the co-author of Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts (2009). He is currently undertaking a three-year AHRC-funded research project, Make Me Laugh: Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry.
David T. Mitchell (dtmitchel@gmail.com) is Professor of English at George Washington University. With Sharon Snyder he has produced three books: Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2000), and The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997). In 2005 he served as senior editor on the five-volume international Encyclopedia of Disability, which [End Page 355] includes an archive of primary source materials from antiquity to the present prepared with Sharon Snyder. He has also curated the Chicago Disability History Exhibit at the National Vietnam Veterans Museum during the 2006 Bodies of Work Disability Art and Culture Festival and the Chicago Disability Film Festival hosted by the Chicago Cultural Center.
Alan Shain (www.alanshain.com) is the founder and artistic director of Smashing Stereotypes Productions. He holds a BA in political science and sociology as well as a Masters of social work from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is an interdisciplinary artist, working in stand-up comedy, theatre, storytelling, and dance. His work explores the lived experience of disability.
Darryl A. Smith (darryl.smith@pomona.edu) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College. His research interests include semiotics, aesthetics, and apocalypse. He is also an artist.
Shannon Walters (skw145@temple.edu) is Assistant Professor of English and teaches and researches in the areas of rhetoric and composition and disability studies at Temple University. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, JAC, Feminist Media Studies, and Technical Communication Quarterly. [End Page 356]
