ES Key Contributors

Kim Akass is a research associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has co-edited (with Janet McCabe) and contributed to Reading Sex and the City (Tauris, 2004), Reading Six Feet Under: T.V. To Die For (Tauris, 2005) and Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary TV (Tauris, 2006). She is currently researching representations of the mother and motherhood in American TV Drama and is one of the founding editors of Critical Studies in Television (MUP), as well as (with McCabe) series editor for Reading Contemporary Television for Tauris.

David Bianculli is the author of Teleliteracy and The Dictionary of Teleliteracy and runs the website tvworthwatching.com.

Glen Creeber teaches at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His research interests lie specifically in television, concentrating on television and textual analysis in a number of different forms. His books include: Dennis Potter: Between Two Worlds (Macmillan, 1998), Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen (BFI, 2004), The Television Genre Book (BFI, 2001), 50 Key Television Programmes (Arnold, 2004) and Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television (BFI, 2006).

Douglas L. Howard is Assistant Academic Chair and an Associate Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College. 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.

Jason Jacobs teaches at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author of The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama and Body Trauma TV.

Christopher Kocela earned his PhD at McGill University. He teaches courses in 20th Century American literature, contemporary theory, and popular culture at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has published in Pynchon Notes, Genders, and The Steinbeck Newsletter.

David Lavery is the author of numerous essays and reviews and author/co-author/editor/co-editor of numerous books published or under contract, including Joss: A Creative Portrait of the Maker of the Whedonverses (I. B. Tauris/St. Martin's, 2008) and 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, Gilmore Girls, and Battlestar Galactica. He co-edits the e-journal Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 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.

Paul Levinson writes science fiction, sf/mystery and popular and scholarly non-fiction. The Silk Code won the Locus award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Consciousness Plague won the 2003 Mary Shelley Award for outstanding Fictional Work. He has published 29 science fiction stories, some of which are now available on fictionwise.com. His novella "Loose Ends" was a 1998 Hugo Award finalist, a finalist for the 1998 Sturgeon Award, and a finalist for the 1997 Nebula Award. The radioplay of his novelette "The Chronology Protection Case" was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play of 2002. Digital McLuhan won the 2000 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship. His work has been translated into twelve languages. He teaches at Fordham University.

Janet McCabe is a Research Fellow in television drama at Manchester Metropolitan University and Managing Editor of Critical Studies in Television. She has written on American TV drama on British screens, as well as with Kim Akass on female narratives and narration in American TV drama. She is author of Feminist Film Theory: Writing the Woman into Cinema (Wallflower), and has co-edited (with Akass) and contributed to Reading Sex and the City (Tauris, 2003) and Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die For (Tauris, 2005).

Robin Nelson is Professor of Theatre and TV Drama at Manchester Metropolitan University and the author of numerous publications on arts and media topics, including TV Drama in Transition. His most recent book-length study is State of Play: "High End" Contemporary TV Drama (Manchester U P, 2007).

Martha Nochimson is an associate editor of Cineaste and the author of The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood and Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong.

Steven Peacock is lecturer in film at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the editor of Reading 24: TV against the Clock, the author of numerous articles on small-screen aesthetics, and co-editor of The Television Series (Manchester University Press.

David Pattie is Professor of Drama at the University of Chester. He is the author of The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (2001) and Rock Music in Performance, and has published widely on a number of topics: popular music, Scottish theatre, contemporary writing for the stage, and performance in popular culture.

Barbara Villez teaches at Université Paris 8, where she researches and writes about images of justice in the media.

Joseph S. Walker received his doctorate in contemporary American fiction from Purdue University. He has published a number of essays on contemporary fiction and film, and has a special interest in representations of crime and violence. He lives in Indiana, where he works as a freelance writer and scholar.

Maurice Yacowar is Emeritus Professor, U of Calgary and the author of such books as The Sopranos on the Couch: Analyzing TV’s Greatest Series (Continuum), The Films of Paul Morrissey (Cambridge University Press), Loser Take All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen (Frederick Ungar).