Reconstruction 5.4 (Fall 2005)
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Contributors
Diana Dominguez earned a Ph.D. in Medieval Irish Literature from Texas Tech University, an MA in English from the University of Texas-Pan American, and Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas-Austin. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. Her research interests include gender portrayal issues in medieval literature, popular culture, and children’s/YA literature. She has published several scholarly book reviews, presented both scholarly and creative work at numerous academic conferences, and published several short stories, creative non-fiction essays, and non-fiction feature (non-scholarly) articles. Contact: gypsyscholar_at_rgv.rr.com
Susan A. George is currently a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley. She has a doctorate in Cultural, Film, and Gender Studies from the University of California, Davis. Focusing on the construction of femininity, masculinity, and alien otherness in sciencefiction film and television, her work has appeared in The Journal of Popular Film and Television and several anthologies including Space and Beyond: The Frontier Myth in Science Fiction (ed. Gary Westfahl, 2000) and Fantastic Odysseys (ed. Mary Pharr, 2003).
Andrew Gordon is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts at the University of Florida. He is author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Fairleigh Dickinson/ Associated University Presses, 1980); Psychoanalyses/Feminisms, an anthology co-edited with Peter Rudnytsky (SUNY Press, 2000); and Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness, co-authored with Hernan Vera (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). He also has written many essays on contemporary American science fiction and science fiction films, including the films of Lucas, Zemeckis, and the Wachowski brothers. He is now at work on a book on the science fiction and fantasy films of Spielberg.
Lorna Jowett is a senior lecturer in American Studies at University College Northampton, U.K. where she teaches a range of literary and cultural topics, including a final year module on Science Fiction. Her research interests are currently focused on gender and genre in science fiction and vampire texts across literature, film and television and recent publications include articles on Gattaca and The Matrix and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her monograph, Sex and the Slayer: a Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2005.
Dr. Helen Merrick lectures in Internet Studies at the Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She has published widely on the cultural history of feminist science fiction, including chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003); Speaking Science Fiction (Liverpool UP, 2000); Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience (Pluto, 1997); and the forthcoming On Joanna Russ (Wesleyan UP, 2006). She is also co-editor with Tess Williams of the collection Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism (U of Western Australia P, 1999). Her current research focuses on the intersections of feminist science fiction and science theory.
C. Jason Smith is an Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York-LaGuardia and co-author of AlienWoman with Ximena Gallardo C.
Susan J. Wolfe is Professor of English and Chair of Languages, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the University of South Dakota, where she has taught linguistics, philosophy, women’s studies and gender studies for the past thirty-two years. With Julia Penelope, Wolfe has co-edited four books on lesbian topics, including The Original Coming Out Stories (Persephone Press, 1989). She has also published articles on language change, rhetorical uses of language, sexism in language and linguistics, and literary style. This is her first publication on Star Trek, however, whose many adventures she has followed for decades.