editors

Debbie Olson
Founder/Editor-in-Chief
debbieo@okstate.edu

Debbie Olson is a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include West African film, images of African/African American children in film, popular media, and children’s culture, Video game images, and Hollywood film. She has contributed to collections such as: The African American Biography Project (2008), Writing African American Women (2006), and the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (2006), and many others. Her articles can be found in: The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV as Film and History (2009) and Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (2009) .

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic
Founder/Technical Editor
vibiana@gmail.com

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic is a Reference Librarian and the Web Administrator at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Her books include The Plagiarism Plague: A Resource Guide and CD-ROM Tutorial for Educators and Librarians (Neal-Schuman, 2004), Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators (Neal-Schuman, 2009). She has also published in various refereed journals and library and information science publications. Cvetkovic, PhD student in the Children and Childhood Studies program at Rutgers University, is also the current chair of the Childhood Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association.

Lan Dong
ldong4@uis.edu

Lan Dong is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is the author of Reading Amy Tan (Greenwood-ABC-CLIO, 2009) and several journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature and films, children's literature, and popular culture. Currently she is finishing a book manuscript on the cross-cultural transformation of Mulan for Temple University Press.

Janet Fink is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University in the UK. Dr. Fink is a social historian with a particular interest and expertise in mid-twentieth century Britain and the representation of social problems, especially in relation to family life and children. She has authored many scholarly works including, edited books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles.

Lena Lee is an assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She earned her doctorate of Curriculum Studies in the U.S.A., and D.E.A of Women's Studies in France. Her scholarly interests include the relationship between young children, education, popular culture, and society, gender issues in media, and multicultural and international perspectives in cultural studies. She has had several manuscripts on these topics published in a wide variety of scholarly journals.

Caryn Murphy is an assistant professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where she teaches courses in the history and criticism of radio, television, and film. Her research focuses on representations of adolescence and the construction of gender roles in film and television.

Giselle Rampaul
Giselle.Rampaul@sta.uwi.edu

Giselle Rampaul is a lecturer in Department of Liberal Arts at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. She has written articles on Caribbean Literature focusing on the carnivalesque, the intersections with British Literature, and representations of the Caribbean child and childhood. She is currently part of a team involved in the editing of a collection of multidisciplinary essays on the latter topic for publication.

Andrew Scahill received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in the Radio-Television-Film department in 2010. His dissertation "Malice in Wonderland: The Perverse Pleasure of the Revolting Child," focuses on the semiotic place of the child in cinema for adult spectators, combining the critical lenses of cultural studies, discourse analysis, reception studies, and queer theory. He has published work on disability and eugenics, queer spectatorship, Cold War culture, children's media, and contemporary horror. In addition, he has also served as Coordinating Editor for the film and television studies journal The Velvet Light Trap.

Adrian Schober has a PhD in literature and film from Monash University, Australia, and is the author ofPossessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film: Contrary States (2004, Palgrave Macmillan). He has a special interest in Roald Dahl, children's literature and the child in the horror film. He teaches literature and film at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.