738 ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS
Grant Bain is currently pursuing his doctorate in modern American literature, and
working on a dissertation on the Southern Gothic at the University of Arkansas.
He completed his master’s degree there in 2006 and plans to complete his PhD in
- His research interests include critical theory, modern literature, and popular
culture.
Anthony D. Baker is the director of composition at Tennessee Technological Univer-
sity, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, rhetoric, research
methods, and literature, including a course about graphic novels. His recent publica-
tions include chapters in Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel and Autism and
Representation.
Patrick Scott Belk is a PhD candidate at the University of Tulsa and book review editor
and Web site manager of the James Joyce Quarterly. His dissertation project, tentatively
titled “Imperial Rags,” focuses on adventure narratives and mass-media technologies in
the early decades of the 20th century.
Tim Bryant is a PhD candidate in the English Department of the University at Buff alo,
where he studies American literature, cultural studies, and religious history. He teaches
Alan Moore’s Wa t c h m e n in his composition and humanities course, and has an essay
about the experience forthcoming in a collection from Fountainhead Press.
Brian Camp received his MA in Film Studies from Memphis State University in
1991.
Stanford W. Carpenter is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in
the Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. Carpenter conducts ethnographic research among cultural producers with
an emphasis on artists, editors, and writers to address the construction and depiction
of community and identity in everyday life. He uses his ethnographic research both
for scholarly manuscripts and arts-based projects.
James Bucky Carter is an assistant professor of English Education at the University of
Texas at El Paso. He edited and contributed chapters to Building Literacy Connections
with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel (NCTE 2007). In 2009, he won the
inaugural Fordham GSE Excellence for Education in Graphica Award.
Lucia Cedeira Serantes is working towards her PhD in Library and Information Sci-
ence at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Her general area of work
focuses on the intersection of young adults, reading and libraries, with special attention
