Genders 40    2004 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS PATRICK GONDER is an instructor of English and Humanities at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois and a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. KIM D. HESTER-WILLIAMS is an Assistant Professor of English at Sonoma State University. She is author of, “The reification of race in cyberspace: African American expressive culture, FUBU and a search for 'beloved community' on the Net,” published in the English and French online journal, Mots Pluriels. She is currently working on a book about the appropriation of African American aesthetics in American popular culture. MIRIAM J. PETTY is the Elaine R. Dodge Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University’s Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience. She studies the politics of African American representation as well as film history, and worked as a coordinator for the Atlanta exhibit “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.” She is currently revising her dissertation, “‘Doubtful Glory’: 1930s Hollywood and the African American Actor as Star,” an examination of the screen images of Louise Beavers, Lincoln “Stepin Fetchit” Perry, Paul Robeson, and Fredi Washington. ELLEN SCOTT is a Doctoral Candidate in the University of Michigan’s Program in American Culture and is also receiving a certificate in Film and Video. Her dissertation explores Black reception of Hollywood films and the censorship of racial images in Hollywood. MARK WINOKUR writes about film theory and history.  His current project—a book-length work titled "Technologies of Race"—continues his arguments about race and special effects in American film. FRANCES GATEWARD teaches in the Unit for Cinema Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. She is the co-editor of Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood (Wayne State University Press 2002) and Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (Wayne State University Press 2004). Her current projects include a book on African American women filmmakers and an anthology on Korean cinema. Current Issue || Download || Editorial Board || Submission Guidelines || Recent Issues || Links & Books Views or conclusions published on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or conclusions of the editors or the editorial board. Genders Journal Campus Box 226 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 http://www.Genders.org Copyright ©2003 Ann Kibbey. All Rights Reserved. This Web Site Created by A Net Presence, Inc.