The Philosophy of Tim Burton

Contributors

287 ContriButors KIMBERLEY BALTZER-JARAY is an instructor at the University of Guelph and King’s University College (Western University) whose area of expertise is early phenomenology and existentialism but who has interests in just about every area of philosophy. She even likes Kant, and she often admits that fact out loud, in public. She is president of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, a writer for Things & Ink Magazine, and author of the blog A Tattooed Philosopher’s Blog: Discussion of the Type I Ink, Therefore I Am. The first philosophical tattoo she got was of Jack Skellington. She explains its significance by saying that she has an affinity with Jack—she is always asking metaphysical questions and she, too, doesn’t understand Christmas. STEVE BENTON is assistant professor of English and the director of the University Honors Program at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He received his B.A. from Texas Christian University, his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago . His most recent publications have appeared in the Atlantic (online) and the Journal of Popular Film and Television. PAUL A. CANTOR is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, where he taught as an assistant professor of English from 1971 to 1977 and as a visiting professor of government in 2007 and 2012. He served on the National Council on the Humanities from 1992 to 1999. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire (Cornell University Press, 1976), Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1984), the Hamlet volume in the Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature series (1989; 2004), and Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), which was named by the Los Angeles Times one of the best nonfiction books of the year. He is the coeditor along with Stephen Cox of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009). His most recent book, The 288 Contributors Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), contains a fuller version of his essay on Mars Attacks!. KEVIN S. DECKER is associate professor of philosophy and associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Eastern Washington University. His teaching and research interests include American pragmatism, applied and normative ethics, philosophy of social science, and philosophy and popular culture. He is the coeditor of Star Wars and Philosophy and Star Trek and Philosophy (Open Court), Terminator and Philosophy, and The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell) and the editor of the upcoming Ender’s Game and Philosophy (Blackwell). He has published chapters in similar books on tattoos, James Bond, Transformers, The Daily Show, Doctor Who, the films of Stanley Kubrick, and 30 Rock. His book Who Is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who (I. B. Tauris) was published in late 2013. KEN HADA is professor at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, where he teaches American literatures and various courses in humanities and directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. His latest poetry collection is Margaritas and Redfish (Lamar University Press, 2013). He is a contributor to The Philosophy of the Western (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), and some of his additional critical essays may be found in College Literature, Southwestern American Literature, Ethnic Studies Review, Journal of the West, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal (http:// kenhada.org). JENNIFER L. JENKINS is associate professor and faculty fellow at the University of Arizona, where she teaches American literatures and film. In addition to pursuing a long-standing interest in gothic domesticity on page and screen, she works on regional archival film in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Her current project is Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Film Service and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest. In 2011 she became curator of the American Indian Film Gallery. Recent publications examine domesticity and divorce in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the first sound films shot in Arizona. DEBORAH KNIGHT is associate professor of philosophy at Queen’s University , Kingston, Canada. She has published on topics including philosophy Contributors 289 and literature; philosophy and cultural studies; The Matrix; The Simpsons; the...