Byron B Craig is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. His work has been published in the edited volumes Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey ...

Patricia G. Davis is associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. She is author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity.

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, ...

Patrick L. Hamilton is professor of English at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. With Allan W. Austin, he coauthored All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero ...

Gerald Peary, a film studies professor at Suffolk University, Boston, is a film critic for the Arts Fuse and editor of Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, John Ford: Interviews, and Samuel Fuller: Interviews ...

Philip R. Ratcliffe is an independent ecological land-use consultant, a musician, and an ardent blues fan.

Davy Murrah is a lifelong resident of the Pascagoula River Swamp in south Mississippi and is the oldest son of Herman Murrah.

James E. Lyons Sr. is a current member of the board of trustees of Alliant International University and is chairman of the board of trustees at California College of Arizona State University. He has held ...

Derek C. Maus is professor of English at SUNY Potsdam and author of Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire. He is also editor of Conversations with Colson Whitehead and ...