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  • Contributors

Ross P. Garner is lecturer in media and cultural studies in the School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. His research interests cover television industries, “cult” discourses, and mediated forms of nostalgia. He has contributed chapters to various edited collections published by I. B. Tauris and in the journal Critical Studies in Television. He is currently writing Nostalgia, Digital Television and Transmediality (Bloomsbury).

Stephen Lacey is emeritus professor at the University of South Wales. He has published widely on postwar British theater and television drama, including Tony Garnett (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Cathy Come Home (BFI/Palgrave, 2010). He is editor (with Jonathan Bignell) of British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2014) and (with Ruth McElroy) of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York (University of Wales Press, 2012). He is a founding editor and member of the editorial board of Critical Studies in Television.

David Lavery is professor and director of graduate studies in English at Middle Tennessee State University (1993–). He is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than twenty books, including Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to “Twin Peaks” (Wayne State University Press, 1995), TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of “Supernatural” (ECW Press, 2011), The Essential Cult Television Reader (University Press of Kentucky, 2015), The Essential “Sopranos” Reader (University Press of Kentucky, 2011), and Joss Whedon, a Creative Portrait: From “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to “The Avengers” (I. B. Tauris, 2014). He has lectured around the world on the subject of television and has been a guest and/or source for various international news agencies. From 2006 to 2008, he taught at Brunel University in London.

Dana Och is a lecturer in English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes frequently on questions of genre, gender, and horror, including publications on Neil Jordan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, becoming animal in the postcolonial zombie comedy, and the neo-postmodern horror film. She coedited the anthology Transnational Horror across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (Routledge, 2014).

Karra Shimabukuro is a PhD candidate in British and Irish literary studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on how folkloric characters, specifically the devil, are represented in literature and popular culture. She regularly writes reviews for the Journal of Popular Culture and Journal of Folklore Research Review, and she is a regular presenter at the Popular Culture National Conference. Her most recent work deals with Freddy Krueger’s folkloric roots as a bogeyman in Studies in Popular Culture (2014), as well as the functional aesthetics in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. [End Page 148]

Rebecca Williams is senior lecturer in communication, cultural, and media studies at the University of South Wales. She is author of Post-Object Fandom: Television, Identity and Self-Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2015) and editor of Torchwood Declassified (I. B. Tauris, 2013) and Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fandom (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming). Her publications include articles in Popular Communication, Continuum, Critical Studies in Television, and Journal of British Cinema and Television. [End Page 149]

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