Chris Murray, Dundee, Scotland, is professor of comics studies at the University of Dundee and director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies. Murray is author of Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero ...

Frank de Caro is professor emeritus at Louisiana State University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books on folklore, including Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts and coauthor ...

Kathleen M. German is professor of media and culture at Miami University. She is coauthor of The Ethics of Emerging Media: Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology and Queer Identities/Political ...

Ellen McHale, Esperance, New York, is executive director of the New York Folklore Society and adjunct lecturer at Utica College. She is author of Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred ...

Isiah Lavender III is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is author of Race in American Science Fiction and editor of Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science ...

Lucy M. Long, Bowling Green, Ohio, taught ethnomusicology, folklore, and popular culture for over thirty years, primarily at Bowling Green State University, where she pioneered food and culture courses. ...

Njoroge Njoroge is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He works on musics of the African diaspora, Caribbean and Latin American history, Marxism, and critical ...

David T. Dockery III is a registered professional geologist and the Surface Geology Division Director for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. His work has appeared in Mississippi Geology ...

Kazumi Nagaike, Oita, Japan, is associate professor in the Center for International Education and Research at Oita University.