Katie Sullivan Barak

M.A. Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University
B.S., Journalism from University of Colorado
Interests: Identity and mediated representation within popular culture; television and film; gender studies; media literacy
Hometowns:Houston, Texas and Denver, Colorado E-mail: kbarak

Lauren Benatti

M.A., Women and Gender Studies, Roosevelt University
B.A., Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
E-mail: laurenb

Genesis Downey

M.A., Creative Writing, University of Michigan
B.A., English, Universiy of Toledo
E-mail: dgenesi

Arundhati Ghosh

M.A,. English, Jadavpur University,India
E-mail: aghosh

Jeffery Green

M.A. Historical Preservation Planing, Eastern Michigan University
B.A., Political Science, Eastern Michigan University
E-mail: jeffery.green@monroemi.gov

Cynthia Heilman

M.Div., Theology, Princeton Univ erity
B.A., Religon And Psycology, Capital University
E-mail: cdheilm

Adrienne Hill

M.A. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
B.A., Gender and Women's Studies, Knox College

E-mail: achill

Melinda Lewis

M.S. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
B.A.,English ,Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Border Studies, Construction of Identity through Media Representation
E-mail: mmlewis

Chris Lezotte

M.S. Women's and Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University
B.A.,Advertising Design,Wayne State Universiy

Interests: Women and Car Culture, Ethnography, Gender and Technology, Women's History, Automotive History, Women's Studies, Journalism
Hometown:
E-mail: clezott

An Nguyen

M.A. American Culture Sudies, Bowling Green State University

Hometown: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
E-mail: antn

Rachel Turnage

M.A. English, Montana State University

B.A. English, Berea College

Hometown Helena, MT

E-mail: trachel

SHEANA RAE DIRECTOR

M.A., Women's Studies from San Diego State University
B.A., Russian Literature from Smith College
Interests: Critical Fat Studies, Women's Studies, race and ethnicity, queer theory, feminist theory, popular culture
Hometown: El Cajon, California
E-mail: sheanad

CAROLYN JAMBARD-SWEET

M.A., Art History, BGSU
B.A., Art History, The Ohio State University
Interests: Serial killers, modernism, film and television, photography, art history, power and governmentality, controversial art, and propaganda.
Hometowns: Maumee, Ohio &
E-mail: carolyj

JUSTIN PHILPOT

M.A., Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
B.A., Music/Media Studies, Hampshire College
Interests: popular culture; class; Marxist theory/intellectual history; governmentality; suicide
Hometown: Beverly, Massachusetts
E-mail: jphilpo

CHRISTIAN REMSE

M.A,. American Cultural History, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Interests: Vodou, Horror Film, Myth-Making Process, Zombies
Hometown: Munich, Germany
E-mail: cremse

SUDIPTO SANYAL

M.A. English Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
B.A., (Hons.) English Literature, Jadavpur University
Interests: Drugs, Jazz, Crime and Noir, New York, Genre and literature, Postmodern mumbo-jumbo, Intergalactic bathtubs. Don't panic!
Hometown: Calcutta, India
E-mail: ssanyal

EDWARD USZYNSKI

M.A., Communication and Culture, Trinity International University
M.A., Masters of Divinity, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
B.A., Secondary Education and Communications, Kent State University
Interests: 1970s/1980s popular culture, worldview formation, Christian theology, sociology of American sport, men/marriage/family studies, media and rhetoric
Hometown: Xenia, Ohio
E-mail: ed.uszynski@athleticsinaction.org

APRILFAYE MANALANG

M.A. M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago
B.A., (Hons.) Sociology, Old Dominion University
Interests: Sociology of Religion, Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Adolescence, Identity Formation
Hometown: Virginia Beach, Virginia
E-mail: aprilfm

BRYAN MCGEARY

M.S. Journalism, Ohio University
B.A.,Journalism (with minors in Communications Media and Religious Studies), Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Popular music, religious studies and theology, film noir, television, depression, music journalism, Civil War history, concerts, self-improvement
Hometown: Indiana, Pennsylvania
E-mail: bmcgear

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JOHN RAWLINS

M.A. History, University of Kentucky
B.A.,English, Georgetown College (Ky)
Interests: Organic intellectuals, cultural imperialism, postcolonialism, identification, Bob Marley
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky
E-mail: johncr

Adrian Bautista

M.A., College Student Personnel, BGSU
B.A., History, BGSU
Interests: panethnicity; college student identity development; Latino Studies; environmental racism
Hometown: Lorain, Ohio
E-mail: adrian.bautista@oberlin.edu

Phillip Cunningham

M.A., English (Creative Writing), Temple Univ
B.A., English (Creative Writing), Ohio Univ
Interests: African American studies (particularly cinema, music, and performance), popular culture, sociology of sport
Hometowns: Steubenville, Ohio & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
E-mail: philllc
Website: 60inches.blogspot.com

Rachel Dean-Ruzicka

M.A., English Literature, Colorado State Univ
B.A., English, Colorado State Univ
Interests: identity and entertainment, cultures of consumption, popular fiction, television, women's studies, negotiating consent in popular culture, Marxist theory
Hometown: Laramie, Wyoming
E-mail: rdeanr

Angie Fitzpatrick

M.A,. American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A. (Hons), Anthropology, University of North Dakota
Interests: Gender, power, and desire in popular music; feminist theory; post-WWII popular culture; psychoanalysis; social class; subculture; Women's Studies
Hometown: Grand Forks, North Dakota
E-mail: fcangel

Justine Lutzel

M.A., English, Univ of Rhode Island
B.A., English, Univ of Rhode Island
Interests: post-9/11 America/ns, contemporary visual culture, pop
culture & literature
Hometown: Providence, Rhode Island
E-mail: jlutzel

Aisha McGriff

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
M.A., Sociology, North Carolina Central Univ
B.A., Psychology, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Black popular culture (specifically blaxploitation and hood films); representations of middle class blackness; sociology of culture; history; Western appropriation of body modification (specifically tattooing, scarification, and branding)
Hometown: Durham, North Carolina
E-mail: aisham

Kelly MacDonald

M.A., American Studies, Univ of Massachusetts Boston
B.A., American Studies, California State Univ Fullerton
Interests: popular culture; popular music; fandom culture/theory; ethnography; Internet Studies; Cuban American Studies; Ethnic Studies
Hometown: Placentia, California
E-mail: kelmacd

Charlotte Quinney

M.A., American Studies, Michigan State Univ
B.A. (Hons), American Studies, Univ of Nottingham (UK) :
Interests: American gothic; 19th Century popular culture,
nationalism and the contemporary horror film; postmodernism; the revisionist Western
Hometown: Derbyshire, U.K.
E-mail: cquinne

Eric Weeks

M.A., History, Northeastern Univ
B.A., History, Arizona State Univ
Interests: contemporary U.S. history, suburban studies, material culture, popular culture, post-World War II American iconography
Hometown: Acton, Massachusetts
E-mail: eweeks

Martin Zimmann

M.Div., Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
B.A., English, Wittenberg Univ
Interests: history, culture, popular culture, gender studies, race, Arab American Experience, film, balloon animals
Hometown: Holland, Ohio
E-mail: wzimman

Kent Anderson

M.A., Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, Central Michigan Univ
B.A., English, Michigan State Univ
Interests: myth of the frontier & popular culture; John Ford; Sam Peckinpah; Charles Chaplin; raconteur criticism; postmodernism; existentialism; ideological criticism
Hometown: Lincoln, Michigan
E-mail: kjander

Mark Bernard

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
M.A., English Literature, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.A., English Literature & Film Studies, Carson-Newman College
Interests: cinema studies; film industry studies; labor and Hollywood; representations of labor and class in North American horror films
Hometown: Beech Creek, Tennessee
E-mail: markb

Rebekah Burchfield

M.A., Journalism & Mass Communication, Univ of Georgia
B.S., Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State Univ
Interests: gender and technology; popular music; feminist theory
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
Email: rebekab
Website: personal.bgsu.edu/~rebekab

Cheryl (Cat) Cash

M.A.L.S., Human Behavior and Society, Valparaiso Univ
B.G.S., Sociology, Indiana Univ
Interests: Native American studies; museology; cultural representations
Hometown: Gary, Indiana
E-mail: cashcl

Jeffrey Geers

Cassandra Jones

M.D, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
B.A., French, University of Toledo
Interests: Afrofuturism, racial and gendered digital embodiment, race and technology, and Critical Fat Studies
E-mail: jonescl

Roz Sibielski

M.A., Media Studies, Rhode Island College
B.A., Film Studies, Rhode Island College
Interests: popular culture; film; television; women's studies; intersections between representational practices & individual subjectivity
Hometown: North Providence, Rhode Island
E-mail: rsibiel

Isaac Vayo

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A., Literature, Ohio Northern Univ
Interests: 9/11; psychoanalysis; the Holocaust; popular music
Hometown: Perrysburg, Ohio
E-mail: lvayo

Kelly Watson

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A., American Studies & Ancient Studies, Univ of Maryland, Baltimore County
Interests: cannibalism; colonial discourse & postcolonial theory; colonial American history; encounters between Europeans
and native peoples; gender studies; narratives of the body &
consumption
Hometown: Middletown, Maryland
E-mail: klwatso

Melissa Altman

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A., Psychology, BGSU
Interests: production of subjectivity; postcolonial feminism; queer theory
Hometown: Boardman, Ohio
E-mail: altmanm

William Emerson

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A., Anthropology, Univ of Michigan, Dearborn
Interests: technology& socio-political change; identity formation; radical anti-authoritarianism
Hometown: Metro Detroit Area, Michigan
E-mail: wjemers

Andy Famigletti

M.A., English/Creative Writing, State Univ of New York at Binghamton
B.A., English/Creative Writing, State Univ of New York at Binghamton
Interests: progressive politics and the Internet; free software/free culture movements; cultural theory; Information society/post-scarcity society
Hometown: Auburn, New York
E-mail: afamigl

Dave Moody

M.A., Radio-TV, Ohio University
B.A., Broadcasting, University of Cincinnati
Interests: critical studies in film, media & culture; portrayal and representation (from a talent and business perspective) of minorities in film, TV, and radio.
Hometown: Mentor, Ohio
E-mail: dmoody

Cristian Pralea

M.A., American Studies/Political Science, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
M.A., Human Studies, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
B.A., Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
Interests: applied and theoretical hermeneutics
Hometown: Brasov, Romania
E-mail: cristip

Sarah Tebbe

M.A., English Literature, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale
B.A., Philosophy, BGSU
Interests: film; confession; gender; identity; city
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
E-mail: sarteb

Kristy Ganoe

M.A., American Culture Studies, BGSU
B.A., Literature, Edinboro Univ of Pennsylvania
Interests: embodied Culture; sport; performance studies; feminist theory; postmodern theory
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
E-mail: kganoe

Erica Kubik

M.A., American Studies, California State Univ, Fullerton
B.A., Anthropology/English, Univ of Iowa
Interests: globalization & agriculture
Hometown: Reinbeck, Iowa
E-mail: ekubik

Chadwick Roberts

M.A., International Film Studies, Ohio Univ
B.A., Radio, Television & Film Production, Univ of Southern Mississippi
Interests: film; media; gender; sexuality; obscenity; pornography
Hometown: Meridian, Mississippi
E-mail: clrober

Neil Sheppard

M.A., American Studies, California State Univ, Fullerton
B.A., American Studies, Univ of Maryland, Baltimore County
Interests: disability studies; public memory; race; ethnicity
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
E-mail: nshepar