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| Ximena Gallardo C. a.k.a The Wicked Witch of the West |
| Assistant Professor of English LaGuardia-CUNY Feminism Editor, Reconstruction www.reconstruction.ws Research Interests: Gender, race, and film. Currently working on a comprehensive study of women and gender in science fiction cinema tentatively entitled Not of This World. |
| C. Jason Smith a.k.a The Scarecrow |
| Assistant Professor of English City University of New York-LaGuardia Domain Editor, Reconstruction www.reconstruction.ws [email protected] Research Interests: Literature and Science, Gender Theory, Virtual Environments and Embodiment, Critical and Online Cross-dressing. |
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| Current Area Chairs |
| Area Founder |
| Richard Tuerk |
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| Richard Tuerk got his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in the City of New York and his master's and doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching at what is now Texas A&M University- Commerce since 1972. In 1991 the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation named him a Piper Professor. He has published in the fields of American Renaissance, American Realism, Immigrant American literature, Jewish American literature, and children's literature as well as distance education. He founded the area of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Texas/Southwest Regional PCA and served one term as president of the Texas PCA. |
| Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies
California State University, Sacramento Research Interests: Gender, race/ethnicity, and popular culture. Her most recent work has focused upon the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the works of Joss Whedon. Her dissertation concerned the construction of women as monsters in the works of Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Meridel Le Sueur and Marge Piercy. She has published essays in Exchanges, The Journal of American Culture, FEMSPEC, and is revising a piece for Frontiers. |
| Alyson Buckman |