Michael Goodrum, Oxford, United Kingdom, is senior lecturer in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate and coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series.
Tara Prescott, Los Angeles, California, is lecturer and faculty in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy; editor of Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century: Essays on the Novels, Children's Stories, Online Writings, Comics and Other Works; and coeditor of Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry and Prose.
Philip Smith, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is assistant professor in the School of English Studies at the University of the Bahamas. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series.
