742 ABOUT THE EDITOR AND THE CONTRIBUTORS
Aaron Kashtan is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University
of Florida, specializing in Media Studies and Comics and Visual Rhetoric. He is the
moderator of the comix-scholars listserv and was a co-organizer of the 2009 University
of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels.
Andrew J. Kunka is an associate professor of English at the University of South
Carolina, Sumter. He co-edited, with Michele Troy, the collection May Sinclair:
Moving towards the Modern , from Ashgate Press (2006), and his essay on Siegfried
Sassoon’s elegies appears in the collection Modernism and Mourning (2007), edited
by Patricia Rae.
Travis Langley is a professor of psychology who teaches courses on psychopathology,
personality, crime, and comics at Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
He helps organize the Comics Arts Conference and academic tracks for Wizard World
and other fan conventions. He runs the ERIICA Project (Empirical Research on the
Interpretation & Infl uence of the Comic Arts).
Pascal Lefèvre teaches on comics and visual media in various Belgian university colleges
of art and is affi liated researcher at the University of Leuven. He has published widely
on visual culture in various languages and he is a member of various international edito-
rial boards and consultative committees of academic journals.
Stuart Lenig is a professor of communication and media studies at Columbia State
Community College, Columbia, Tennessee. He is currently working on projects
about glam rock, graphic novels, and steampunk culture. He produces cultural aff airs
programming, directs the fi lm/performance program, and promotes the digital media
initiative.
A. David Lewis is a Boston educator who has lectured nationally on comics studies.
He founded the Religion & Graphica Collection at Boston University and co-edited
the book Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels. His graphic novels
include Th e Lone and Level Sands and Some New Kind of Slaughter with mpMann.
Jacob Lewis is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of
Arkansas. He is currently fi nishing a dissertation that charts the utopian function in
several medieval dream-visions. His scholarly interests include medieval dream visions,
Marxism, and utopianism.
Lorcan McGrane has studied at the University of Ulster, Dublin Institute of Technol-
ogy, and the University of East Anglia in the areas of fi lm and television studies. He has
