Reconstruction Vol. 13, No. 2
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Contributors
Bruce Drushel is an Associate Professor of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University and directs its Film Studies program. His teaching and research interests are in media policy and economics, media audiences, media history, and queer representation in media and film. He currently is vice-president of Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and chairs its Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies area. He is editor of Fan Phenomenon: Star Trek, and was co-editor of the books Queer Identities/Political Realities and Ethics of Emerging Media. His work also has appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Media Economics, European Financial Journal, and FemSpec, and in a number of anthologies. He recently edited an issue of Journal of Homosexuality on AIDS and Culture and currently is co-editing a special issue of Journal of American Culture. [article]
Michael Johnson Jr., is a Ronald E. McNair Fellow and an instructor at Washington State University, where he currently teaches both introductory and upper-division interdisciplinary undergraduate courses in the Department of Critical Culture, Race, and Gender Studies. He earned his M.L.A. in Social and Political Thought (University of South Florida) and an M.S. in Library and Information Science (Florida State University). His book, Tickle My Fancy, Fat Man: Emerging Images of Race and Queer Desire on HBO, is currently under contract with Lexington Press, in its Critical Studies in Television Series. [article]
Christianne Gadd received her Ph.D. in History from Lehigh University, where she also earned an M.A. in American Studies. Her dissertation, "The Advocate and the Making of a Gay Model Minority in the United States, 1967-2007," expands on the argument presented here and explores the ways in which The Advocate attempted to shape the conditions of LGBTQ subjectivity in the late 20th century United States. Her research interests include LGBTQ history, women's and gender studies, and U.S. mass media and popular culture. [article]
Evangeline Heiliger. [article]
C. Richard King, Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on Native American mascots, the changing contours of race in post–Civil Rights America, as well as the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture. He is the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy, Postcolonial America, and Native American Athletes in Sport and Society. He has recently completed The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook and Unsettling America: The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century. [article]
Claudia May is a specialist in African American, Black British, and Anglophone Caribbean literature and theatre and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has over twelve years’ experience in higher education teaching literature and academic writing courses. Publishers who have published her writings include Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, Lexington Books, and Routledge. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. [article]
Christine Wood is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Program in Gender Studies at Northwestern University. Her work examines the developmental trajectories of gender and women’s studies programs in the United States. Broadly, she is interested in the sociology of knowledge and science and cultural sociology.[article]
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