ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS 741
“Th e Manga Phenomenon in America” in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural
Perspectives (ed. Toni Johnson-Woods, Continuum, 2009). She has been an English
instructor at the United States Coast Guard Academy and is currently serving as sub-
mission editor for Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts
(ed. Frenchy Lunning, University of Minnesota Press).
Richard L. Graham is a media services librarian and assistant professor at the Univer-
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln. He reads and writes about comics, television, and popular
culture while maintaining and developing a media collection—from microfi lm to
PS3 games.
Diana Green has a BFA in Comic Book Illustration from the Minneapolis College of
Art and Design and an MA in Liberal Studies, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minne-
sota. She teaches studio and liberal studies classes, including comic history and graphic
novel, along with presenting at the Comic Scholars Conference (2006–). She continues
to publish on comics history and theory.
Alex Hall is a doctoral student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. His master’s
thesis looked at dystopian cultural production of the early 21st century, and the suit-
ability of the dystopian narrative framework for exhibiting the utopian imagination.
He is an active member of the Society for Utopian Studies.
D. R. Hammontree began his love of comics with Wo r l d ’s F i n e s t #282. He holds a PhD
in English Studies (with an emphasis on Cultural Rhetoric) from Illinois State Univer-
sity and is a professor of Writing at Jackson Community College, Jackson, Michigan.
He has written on issues of writing pedagogy, civic literacy, and comics.
Michael W. Hancock teaches English and graphic novels at the Illinois Mathematics
and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois.
Alec R. Hosterman is a doctoral candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric
at Texas Tech University. He is writing his dissertation on hyperreality and the graphic
narrative. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the communication arts area at Indiana Uni-
versity, South Bend. He teaches courses in visual communication, rhetoric, comics, and
new media.
Jackson Jennings completed his BA in English and Philosophy and Religion at Truman
State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He is now working on his PhD in English at the
University of Arkansas, where he also received his MA.
