Contributors

Contributors Jamie Barlowe is Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toledo and an associate professor of English. She is the author of The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne, as well as numerous essays on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American writers, film and film history , and feminist theory. Her in-progress book is titled Viewer, I Married Him: Cinematic Adaptations of Novels by 19th and Early 20th Century British and American Women Writers. Michael H. Epp is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Alberta. His current research and recent conference papers consider the role of the American humour industry in the emerging mass market of the 1890s. Charlene Elliott is a doctoral candidate in Mass Communication at Carleton University . Her recent publications include “Sipping Starbucks: (Re)considering Communicative Media” (Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, eds. Paul Attallah and Leslie Regan Shade, Nelson, 2002) and “Consuming Caffeine : The Discourse of Starbucks and Coffee” (Consumption, Markets and Culture, 4.4, 2001). Research interests include colour and communication, intellectual property law and issues of public space, and taste cultures. Bernard Lemelin est professeur agrégé au département d’histoire de l’Université Laval. Son champ de spécialisation est l’histoire politique des États-Unis au XXe siècle. Ses divers articles, qui touchent surtout aux années Truman-Eisenhower, ont paru dans des revues tant américaines et françaises que canadiennes. Natalie Atkin completed her PhD – in American history and the connections between the Vietnam antiwar movement and the women’s movements – in 1999 at Wayne State University. Since then, she’s been teaching part-time at WSU and the University of Windsor. She’s recently published book reviews on the Vietnam antiwar movement, as well as contributions (mostly on women's history) in various encyclopedias. ...