740 ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS
Gail de Vos is a professional storyteller and an adjunct associate professor for the
School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta. She is the author of eight books on storytelling, folklore, and popular culture,
and has taught her online course, “Comic books and graphic novels in school and public
libraries,” for over six years.
Matthew Dube teaches in the English department at William Woods University in
Fulton, Missouri. He has presented critical responses at national conferences spon-
sored by the College English Association and the Popular Culture/American Culture
Association.
Randy Duncan has a PhD in Communications from Louisiana State University and
has taught at Henderson State University since 1987. He is co-author of Th e Power
of Comics: History, Form and Culture (Continuum 2009) and the co-founder of the
Comics Arts Conference. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal
of Comic Art.
Lance Eaton teaches at several colleges in Massachusetts including the University of
Massachusetts and Emerson College. As a freelance writer, he has written for Publishers
We e k l y , Library Journal , Foreword Magazine , and Audiofi le Magazine. His areas of study
include gender and sexuality, comics, audiobooks, and adaptation.
Andrew Edwards is a writer, comics critic, independent scholar, and assistant director
for Great Britain for the Institute for Comics Studies. He holds a BA Honors in En-
glish and History, an MA in English, and postgraduate qualifi cations in both teaching
and librarianship.
Marc-Oliver Frisch is a student of North American Literature and Culture at Saarland
University, Saarbrücken, Germany. His writing on comics appears regularly at Publishers
Weekly/Th e Beat (http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/), in the German comics
magazine Comicgate (http://www.comicgate.de/), and at his weblog Comiks Debris
(http://comiksdebris.blogspot.com/).
Jason Gallagher is a graduate student in the Media Studies program at the S. I. New-
house School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. He received his MA
in English in 2009 from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he studied textual
analysis and Native American and Chicano/a studies.
Wendy Goldberg has presented papers at national conferences and published essays
on comics, anime, and manga for the last 14 years. Her most recent article is titled
