Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Charlotte Biltekoff is an assistant professor in American studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the cultural history and cultural politics of dietary ideals. She teaches courses on food and culture for students in both the humanities and the sciences.
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti is assistant professor at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been teaching and researching in the fields of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture and ideology, drama and politics, and popular culture. She has published articles in American Drama, New England Theatre Journal, Prospects, as well as the book Early American Women Dramatists, 1775–1860 (New York: Garland, 1998). She has also co-edited The Flesh Made Text: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body (New York: Peter Lang, 2007) and The Future of Flesh (Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming).
Dr. John Drabble teaches history and American studies in the American Culture and Literature Department at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. In summers, he teaches world history and peace and conflict studies in the International Area Studies Teaching Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications concern evolution of FBI policy toward private detective agencies and vigilante groups during the twentieth century, focusing on the bureau’s COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE covert action program against the Ku Klux Klan during the 1960s. www.geocities.com/workingpapers
Jeffrey S. Miller is associate professor and chair of the department of English and journalism at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. He teaches courses in journalism and media studies, as well as an interdisciplinary honors program seminar. He is the author of Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and a contributor to NBC: America’s Network, ed. Michele Hilmes, (University of California Press, 2007). [End Page 4]
David Hoogland Noon is an assistant professor of U.S. history at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. His research focuses primarily on the history of social science and the uses of history in popular memory and political discourse. He has published essays in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, The Canadian Review of American Studies, The History of Psychology, and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. He is working on a manuscript titled “‘Very Well, Alone’: Conservative Historical Memory After September 11.”
J. E. Smyth is an assistant professor of History and Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick (UK), where she teaches courses in American cinema, historiography, and twentieth-century cultural history. Smyth is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from ‘Cimarron’ to ‘Citizen Kane’ (University Press of Kentucky, 2006). Her second book, Edna Ferber’s Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender and Race, will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2009. [End Page 179]
