About the Editor
and the Contributors
Editor
M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Professor of English at the Uni-
versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he is director of the program in Comparative
Literature and Cultural Studies.
Contributors
Noaman G. Ali is a PhD student in the department of Political Science at the Uni-
versity of Toronto. He completed his MA in Social and Political Th ought at York
University, Canada.
Will Allred currently writes comics, is a PhD candidate in English at the University of
Arkansas, and has been a member of the Grand Comic-Book Database Project since
1996, and a member of its Board of Directors since 2000.
Henry Andrews is a software engineer and member of the Board of the Grand Comic-
Book Database.
Jackson Ayres is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Arkansas.
His research interests include 20th-century British and American literature, the
political novel, fi lm studies, comics, literary theory, and popular culture. His dissertation
examines the contemporary role and status of the public intellectual.