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Jes Battis is currently a doctoral candidate in the dept of English at Simon Fraser U, Vancouver BC. He has published work, or has work forthcoming, in the following journals: Canadian Studies, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Topia, Slayage and Modern Fiction Studies. His research areas include film and television, queer studies and fantasy/sci-fi literatures. His Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is forthcoming from McFarland, and he is working on a collection of essays on the show Queer As Folk and a poetry text called Stray.

Nicholas Birns teaches humanities at New School University in New York City. He completed his undergraduate work at Wesleyan University and Columbia University and received his doctorate from New York University. His work has been published in Arizona Quarterly, Hollins Critic, and the New York Times Book Review. A founding member of the Anthony Powell Society, his book Understanding Anthony Powell was published by U of South Carolina Press in 2004.

Jolie Braun received her B.A. in English literature and Women’s Studies at the U of Massachusetts – Amherst. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the U of California – Davis, where she studies Victorian literature, mass culture, and gender studies.

Chris Brooks is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Coordinator at Wichita State Unviersity.

Michele Byers is an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's U in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and, though she continues to try, she can't seem to stop writing about Buffy. She has published articles in Signs, Higher Education Perspectives, and Studies in Popular Culture (forthcoming), and has forthcoming book chapters in Canadian Eh? and Surviving Sprawl. She has written about Beverly Hills, 90210, reality TV, Brandon Teena, suburbia, and the mediated city. Byers is involved in a project on Canadian identity and the youth-oriented TV series Degrassi; she also continues to look for more ways to actively study and promote the third wave.

Andrew Coomes iearned his M.A. in English at Middle Tennessee State U, where he is wrote his thesis on the films of Kevin Smith. He now teaches in the Nashville Public Schools.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

David Scott Diffrient is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA.  His work has appeared in Asian Cinema, CineAction, Film Quarterly, Paradoxa and The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, with essays to be published in the forthcoming anthologies South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre and National Cinema (Wayne State U Press), Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear (U of Mississippi Press) and New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh U Press).  An essay on cinephilia and intertextuality in Northern Exposure is also set to be published in a collection of essays about that series, edited by Jimmie Cain, David Lavery, and John Zubizaretta.

Deidre Dowling earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing and a dual-degree in Philosophy from the U of South Alabama. Her honors program thesis was entitled Motherly: A Collection of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Journals on the Art of Motherhood. The recipient of the Shelley Memorial Poetry and Steven and Angelia Stokes Poetry Awards, she has been published in Pleiades and Oracle, USA's literary magazine. She is currently working toward her M.A. in English literature and is the poetry editor for Oracle. She teaches English at Okaloosa-Walton College in Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Bill Kte'pi is a fiction writer (his short fiction has appeared in several "best of" collections and his own forthcoming Fierce Pop Songs), game designer, and fringe-dwelling academic who nominally studies religion and intellectual history but has taught a course on television criticism and published a growing amount of analytical work.

David Lavery is the author of over eighty published essays and reviews and author/editor/co-editor of nine books: Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (Southern Illinois U P, 1992), Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks (Wayne State U P, 1994), ‘Deny All Knowledge’: Reading The X-Files (Syracuse U P, 1996), Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow (Wallflower, Columbia U P, 2002), This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos (Wallflower, Columbia U P, 2002), Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom (forthcoming from Continuum, 2006), Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By and Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO  (both forthcoming in the Reading Contemporary Television Series, I. B. Tauris, 2006). He is also co-editor of in-development books on Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, and Fake News.

Kelli Maloy is Assistant Professor of English at the U of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Previous publications include articles on contemporary Irish women’s literature and postcolonial studies.

Caryn Murphy is a doctoral student of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at UW-Madison. Her research interests include generational discourse, fan cultures, and youth media.

Susan Murray is assistant professor of culture and communication at NYU. Her research interests include media history and theory; teen media culture; gender issues; stardom. Her work has appeared in journals such as Television and New Media (2001) and Cinema Journal (2002) as well as numerous anthologies. She is the co-editor (with Laurie Ouellette) of Reality TV: The Re-making of Television Culture (NYU Press, 2004) and is currently writing Gender & Television: A History of Theory and Method for Oxford U Press.