About the Contributors

Kim Akass is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University. She has written articles on motherhood in American TV, and (with Janet McCabe) co-edited and contributed to Reading Sex and the City and the forthcoming Reading Six Feet Under: TV To Die For. She is currently researching representations of the mother and motherhood in American TV Drama. She is a member of the editorial board for Critical Studies in Television.

Daphne Gottlieb—a San Francisco-based Performance Poet—stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter with her tongue. She is the author of Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. Final Girl was named one of The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003 and received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Village Voice. Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition—Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001. Gottlieb is the poetry editor of the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly, as well as Other Magazine. She is currently at work editing an anthology about adultery entitled, Homewrecker: An Atlas of Illicit Loves, and is finishing her fourth book of poetry, Kissing Dead Girls. She received her MFA from Mills College.

Stephanie Harzewski is a PhD English candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches British literature since 1660 and American literature since the late nineteenth-century. Her dissertation, "'Chick Lit' and the Urban Code Heroine: Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners," situates this popular fiction phenomenon within the novel of manners tradition to revisit debates surrounding the Anglo-American novel. Prior to entering Penn, she worked in the Manhattan publishing sector and earned a MA in Women's Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Ms. Harzewski has published on Virginia Woolf, Eliza Haywood, and Adrienne Rich, as well as aspects of American popular culture.

Lisa Johnson is the editor and contributing author of Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. She is currently working on a sequel, Jane Puts It In a Box: Third Wave Feminist Television Studies, a collection of essays that examine women's ambivalent viewing pleasures at the intersection of film theory and the feminist sex wars. In addition to her work on The Sopranos, she recently completed an article on the missing discourse of egalitarian marriage on Six Feet Under. Prior to editing this issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, she contributed an essay called "You All Know the Story of the Other Women" on adultery and third wave feminism to the previous issue of SFO, "Young Feminists Take on the Family." She teaches American Literature and Women's Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

Katherine Lee is an Assistant Professor of multicultural American literature at Indiana State University. Her research interests also include feminist theory, film, and cultural studies. An essay on Asian American women's autobiography will appear both in the next issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination and an expanded version of the journal issue, to be published by Temple UP. Among her current projects are a discussion of Gayl Jones's Corregidora within an American regionalist framework, and in its nascent stages, an analysis of Tupperware.

Janet McCabe is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. She has written several essays on American TV drama on British television, narrative form and gender, 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, and has co-edited (with Akass) and contributed to Reading Sex and the City and the forthcoming Reading Six Feet Under: TV To Die For. She is currently researching a book on female narrative in contemporary American TV drama. She is a member of the editorial board for Critical Studies in Television.

Beth Montemurro is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn State University—Abington. Her research interests include the construction of gender, images of women in the media, and reality television. She has published articles on the trivialization of sexual harassment on television, the world of male exotic dancers and their women patrons, as well as several articles concerning women's pre-wedding rituals. She is currently writing a book about bridal showers and bachelorette parties.

Cristy Turner is a PhD student in Cultural Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include popular culture, queer and feminist theory and youth culture. She has previously written articles for Jane, Black Book and Surface magazines.

Sherryl Wilson is a lecturer in Media Theory at Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. Her interests include the cult of celebrity, reality TV, popular culture and identity. Her PhD project explored The Oprah Winfrey Show looking at the ways in which individuals construct a self through recovery from trauma and how this is mediated by commercial television.