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243 Contributors David M. Ball is an Assistant Professor of English at Dickinson College where he teaches courses in multicultural and multidisciplinary American modernism and the graphic novel. His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, South Atlantic Review, Critical Matrix, and College Literature. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, a co-edited volume of critical essays titled The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking, from the University Press of Mississippi in 2010, and a study of the rhetoric of failure in American literature from 1850 to the present. Ian Gordon is an Associate Professor in History and American Studies Convenor at the National University of Singapore. His books include Comic Strips andConsumerCulture (1998) and FilmandComicBooks (2007). His article “Nostalgia , Myth, and Ideology: Visions of Superman at the End of the American Century” is reprinted in the Michael Ryan-edited anthology, Cultural Studies (2008). Andrew Loman, Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland , is the author of “Somewhat on the Community-System”: Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Routledge, 2005) and essays in the Journal of American Studies and the Emerson Society Quarterly; his short fiction has appeared in the Canadian literary quarterly Exile. He is currently researching a book about his father, a survivor of concentration camps in WWII Indonesia. Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing history and theory, rhetoric, literacy studies, and women’s writing and is the author or co-author of many books and articles, including The Everyday Writer, Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, Singular 244 CONTRIBUTORS Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing, Reclaiming Rhetorica : Women in the History of Rhetoric, Everything’s an Argument, Exploring Borderlands : Composition and Postcolonial Studies, and Writing Matters: Rhetoric in Private and Public Lives. James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. He is author of Selling Seattle (2004), and Miami Vice (2010), and co-editor of Quality Popular Television (with Mark Jancovich, 2003), and Multimedia Histories (with John Plunkett, 2007). He was a founding member of the editorial board for Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies. Ana Merino is associate professor at The University of Iowa. She has published a scholarly book on comics titled El Comic Hispanico (Cátedra, 2003), a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido 2005), five books of poetry and one work of fiction. She was awarded the Diario de Avisos Award for best critical short article about comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer. Merino is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cartoon Studies and a member of the executive committee of International Comic Art Forum. Merino’s articles on comics have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for three comics exhibitions and is the author of the bilingual catalogue Fantagraphics creadores del canon (2003). Graham J. Murphy has published in Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, Foundation, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, and a variety of other venues. He co-authored Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion (Greenwood) and has co-edited Beyond Cyberpunk : New Critical Perspectives (Routledge). His current research explores the critical intersections of post/human subjectivities and insect ontologies in speculative fictions. He teaches with Trent University’s Cultural Studies Department and its Department of English Literature as well as Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. Chris Murray lectures in English and Film Studies at the University of Dundee. He is a central member of the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG), which organizes annual conferences on aspects of word and image study. He also organizes an annual comics conference in Dundee as part of the Dundee Literary Festival. His book on superheroes and propaganda will [3.84.7.255] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:04 GMT) CONTRIBUTORS 245 be published by Hampton Press in 2010. Other publications include papers in Comics and Culture (Museum of Tusculaneum/University of Copenhagen Press, 2000), The Scottish Society of Art History Journal (2006), Sub/versions: Genre, Cultural Status and Critique (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), as well as several...