Michele Byers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Graduate Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary's University. She has published extensively in the area of television studies, including on shows such as The O.C., Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, Degrassi, Dexter, Arrested Development, Roseanne, Beverly Hills, 90210, Part of 5, Buffy, Ready or Not, and Renegadepress.com. She has edited or co-edited the books Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures and Dear Angela: Remembering My So-Called Life (with David Lavery), and The CSI Effect (with Val Johnson). Her new work focuses on the production of ethnicities in popular culture, with a particular emphasis on the Jewish Princess. Douglas L. Howard is currently Assistant Academic Chair and an Associate Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College in Selden, NY. His publications include articles, essays, and book chapters in Literature and Theology, Poppolitics.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos, The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination (co-editor and contributor), Reading The Sopranos, Reading Deadwood, Reading 24, and Milton in Popular Culture, and Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television (editor). David Lavery is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and the author/editor/co-editor of numerous essays and books, including volumes on such television series as Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, Lost, Deadwood, Seinfeld, My So-Called Life, Heroes, and Battlestar Galactica. He co-edits the e-journal Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association and is one of the founding editors of Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies of Small Screen Fictions. He has lectured around the world on the subject of television.