About the Author

M. Thomas Inge is the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where he teaches courses in American culture, film, humor, animation, and literature. He was the editor of the first two editions of the Handbook of American Popular Culture (Greenwood Press). More recent publications include Comics as Culture, William Faulkner: The Contemporary Reviews, Conversations with William Faulkner, and Charles M. Schulz: Conversations. His essays have appeared in such publications as PMLA, American Literature, Faulkner Journal, Studies in American Humor, and World Literature Review.

Dennis Hall is a Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches such subjects as History of Rhetoric, British Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Literature. A former editor of Studies in Popular Culture, he has written on topics including dietary supplements, backyard gardens, Civil War reenactments, museums, and Samuel Johnson.