About the Author

Lisa Wenger Bro is an Associate Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA. Her specialty is postmodern American literature, particularly multiethnic, magical realist, and speculative fiction. Her publications include articles such as “The Supernatural and Cultural Agency” in Perforations, “Strange Changes: Cultural Transformation in U.S. Magical Realist Fiction” in LiCuS: Journal of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, and “The Masculinized Female Hero: Punishing Misalignment in Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones” in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.Crystal O’Leary-Davidson is a Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA. She has published articles on the American Gothic, distance learning pedagogy, popular culture, and film studies, including: “Make It Beautiful: The Art of Dayana Stetco’s The Dick Traces (The Milena Theatre Group, 2002)” in Audition: A Journal of Drama and Interdisciplinary Performance, “The Visitor” in Extracts, “Perceived Effectiveness of a Virtual Immersive Environment for Teaching and Learning” (co-authored with Darryl Hancock, Kirby Swenson, and Andy Davidson) in Distance Learning Administration Annual and Conference Proceedings, “Transcending Monstrous Flesh: A Revision of the Hero’s Mythic Quest” in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and “The Dead” in Southwestern Review. She writes fiction and is a member of the Horror Writers Association.Mary Ann Gareis has BAs in Philosophy and English Literature from Berea College, USA, and an MA in Medieval Literature from the University of Georgia, USA. She is an Associate Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA. She has presented on rhetoric and pedagogy in working with underprepared and at risk students. Her current interests include horror, the Gothic and the contemporary anti-hero. Her recent work includes “Unsavory Saviors: The Hero Becomes the Monster in Contemporary Horror” and “From Ground Breaking to World Breaking: Technology and our Fragile Landscape.”