Genders 52    2010 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JUSTYNA WLODARCZYK is an assistant professor at the American Literature Section of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research centers on feminist studies of American literature and culture. She is also interested in using a comparative approach to analyze Polish and American culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Ungrateful Daughters. Third Wave Feminist Prose. JULIE SCANLON is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University, UK. She has published articles in journals such as JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory and researches in the fields of contemporary fiction, narrative theory and theories of gender and sexuality related to contemporary culture. She is currently writing a monograph examining corporeal-textual relations in contemporary women's writing. EMILY BOWLES is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University. She has published essays on the complex interrelationships between gender, sex, sexuality, and narrative in eighteenth-century literature in journals including Eighteenth-Century Novel, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, and In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism. She is currently studying the relationship between eighteenth-century tabloid culture and the codification of sex/gender categories. MATTHEW BANNISTERis postgraduate supervisor of Media Arts at Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand. His areas of interest include popular music, gender, psychoanalysis and settler societies. His publications include White Boys, White Noise: Indie Guitar Rock and White Masculinities. He is also a musician and songwriter. DEBORAH MANION is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is currently revising her dissertation, "The Ekphrastic Fantastic: Gazing at Magic Portraits in Victorian Fiction" into a book manuscript. This study analyzes the development of the magic picture trope in relation to theories of representation and desire as they are later articulated in feminist and queer image theory. KAREN BEAVERS has taught film and media studies courses at Dartmouth College, USC, and Loyola Marymount University. She is currently working on a book on Harry Belafonte's multimedia work in the 1950s. 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 ©2006 Ann Kibbey. All Rights Reserved.