NOTES
1. For more information on this curious aspect of modern science writing, see Kristine Larsen, “Selling Science: String Theory as ‘Science Porn,’” in Riffing on Strings, eds. Sean Miller and Shveta Verma (New York: Scriblerus Press, 2008), 15–25.
2. A similar cosmology can be found in the Mr. Tompkins short stories of physicist George Gamow, and the original Land of the Lost television series.
3. In Gaiman’s episode of Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife,” the TARDIS itself takes her place as a QCG, as the viewers are reminded of her power to travel not only through time and space, and to other parallel realities, but to reboot the universe (in the episode “The Big Bang”).
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About the Contributors
Lanette Cadle is an associate professor of English at Missouri State University. Her scholarly work includes the articles “Sweet Monsters: Feminism and Blurred Gender in Rose O’Neill’s Paris Exhibition” and “Plagiarism and Technophobia: Fighting the Fear.” Her poetry has appeared in several literary journals including Connecticut Review.
Sarah Cantrell is a gender studies scholar and an English instructor at Georgia Perimeter College. She is completing a Ph.D. at Georgia State University in 19th-century British literature. Her dissertation, “Sister Group Novels and the Nineteenth-Century Cult of Family,” explores Victorian sororal dynamics.
Emily Capettini is pursuing a Ph.D. in English with concentrations in creative writing and science fiction at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is fiction editor for Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal, and her creative work has appeared in The Battered Suitcase.
Renata Dalmaso is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Her dissertation, which engages authors ran
ging from Leslie Feinberg to Alison Bechdel, investigates the range of queer and gender studies when dealing with gender-incoherent subjects.
Aaron Drucker received his master’s degree from Hofstra University and is completing his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. His research centers on the abrupt transitions between humor and horror in revenge tragedy and the fun had by Jacobean audiences. A lifelong comic-book collector, he owns two complete first edition runs of Gaiman’s Sandman. He is writing a monograph on Pixar’s early films.
Coralline Dupuy wrote her master’s thesis on the evolution of vampire novel paradigms in the late 20th century. Her teaching areas are Victorian detective fiction, 19th-century literature, Young Adult fiction, and translation. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis (NUI Galway, Ireland) is the figure of the mentor in 19th-century Gothic fiction and detective novels.
Kristine Larsen is a professor of physics and astronomy at Central Connecticut State University. She is widely published on women in the history of astronomy, astronomy in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and the use of math and science in various television series and films, and has worked for years to debunk the December 21, 2012, End of the World scenarios.
Elizabeth Law is a feminist, academic and author whose work focuses on the depiction of women in contemporary retellings of folk and fairy tale fiction. She has studied and taught at Rutgers University–Newark, where she earned her master’s degree in English with a concentration in women’s and gender studies. She discovered the Sandman comics as an undergraduate at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
Rachel R. Martin teaches composition and American literature at Northern Virginia Community College. Her teaching interests encompass English, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, cultural studies and identity politics. Her research focuses on moments of revolt and resistance in American postmodern literature and popular culture. She is continually looking for the potential disruption of the patriarchal discourse.
Jennifer McStotts is an independent scholar and writer who lectures on speculative fiction and environmental writing at the University of Arizona. She earned an MFA in creative writing, and she has poetry, essays and reviews published in Re)verb, Potomac Review, and CutThroat. In addition, she is a contributor and editor of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, and she blogs regularly at jennifermcstotts.com.
Justin Mellette is a University Graduate Fellow at Pennsylvania State University where he is pursuing his doctorate in 20th century American literature. His research interests also include African American literature, Caribbean literature and, of course, comics and graphic novels.
Monica Miller is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Louisiana State University interested in Southern literature and gender theory. She has a 2010 M.A. from the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. Her work includes “Gothic Revelations of Marriage in The Witch of Ravensworth and The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey” (Studies in Gothic Fiction) and “A Loa in These Hills: Voudou and the Ineffable in Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill” (Journal of Appalachian Studies).
Tara Prescott is a lecturer in Writing Programs at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in English, specializing in 20th-century American literature, from Claremont Graduate University. Her recent publications have been featured in European Joyce Studies and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Danielle Russell is an instructor in the English Department at Glendon College specializing in children’s, Victorian, and 20th-century American literature. Her publications include Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Cather and Morrison; “Immeasurable Yearnings: The Legacy of the Landscape in Cather’s The Song of the Lark” (Dialogue Literary Studies Series) and “Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series” (Telling Children’s Stories).
Jessica Walker completed her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in 2009 and is an assistant professor of early modern literature at Alabama A&M University. Her research interests include early modern women’s autobiography, the Gothic, and film adaptation.
Agata Zarzycka is an assistant professor and a member of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies of the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her 2007 Ph.D. disertation was titled “World of Darkness: Role-Playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice.” She is head of the Council of the Game Research Association of Poland.
Index of Terms
Abel
abortion
Absolute Sandman
Amano, Yoshitaka
Amazons
American Gods
Amos, Tori
Anansi Boys
androgyny
Angel
angels
anorexia
Barbie
Barthes, Roland
Bast
Batman
Baudrillard, Jean
Bechdel, Alison
Beowulf
Berger, Karen
Black Orchid
Blueberry Girl
Books of Magic
breasts
Butler, Judith
Cain
Campbell, Helena
Campbell, Joseph
Carter, Angela
castration
Chantal
children’s literature
chivalry
Cixous, Hélène
Comics Code Authority
Coraline
cross-dressing
damsel in distress
Daniel
Dare, Virginia
DC Comics
Death
“Death: A Winter’s Tale”
“Death Talks About Life”
Death: The High Cost of Living
de Beauvoir, Simone
Delight
Delirium
Derrida, Jacques
Desire
Despair
Destiny
Destruction
Device, Anathema
Doctor Who
“The Doctor’s Wife”
Dog Soup
domesticity
Dream
Dream Hunters
The Dreaming
Endless
Eumenides
Eve
fairy tales
Fates
fathers
femme fatale
first wave feminism
Foucault, Michel
Fragile Things
Freud, Sigmund
Friedan, Betty
Furies
Fury
gaze
Gilbert, Sandra
Good Omens
Grey, Jean
Gubar, Susan
Habermas, Jürgen
hair
Hall, Lyta
Hecate
hegemony
heterosexuality
homosexuality
horror
Idris
impotence
incest
InterWorld
Irigaray, Luce
Jones, Coraline
Jones, Kelley
Jones, Malcolm, III
Jung, Carl
Kinkaid, Unity
knights
Kristeva, Julia
Lacan, Jacques
Larissa
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lewis, C.S.
Lilim
Linden, Susan
Lord of Dreams
Lucifer
Lucy
Lyotard, Jean-François
madness
Magian Line
male gaze
male readers
marriage
Marvel 1602
McCloud, Scott
McKean, Dave
Mendelsohn, Farah
menstruation
MirrorMask
mirrors
misandry
misogyny
Morpheus
&
nbsp; mothers
Nada
necrophilia
Neverwhere
“Night to Remember”
9/11
Nuala
Nutter, Agnes
Orpheus
Other Mother
Palmer, Amanda
phallus
Poison Ivy
pornography
Pratchett, Terry
pregnancy
princess
Princess Mononoke
“Problem of Susan”
prostitution
race
RAINN
rape
Rich, Adrienne
sadism
Sandman
The Sandman (series)
Satrapi, Marjane
science fiction
second wave feminism
Sedgwick, Eve
sexuality
1602
slavery
Smoke and Mirrors
“Snow, Glass, Apples”
Snow White
social media
Stardust
Storm, Susan
Strange, Clea
suicide
Suzy
Swamp Thing
T.A.R.D.I.S.
Thessaly
third wave feminism
Virgin Mary
virginity
voyeurism
Walker, Rose
Wanda
weddings
Weird Sisters
Whitaker, Mrs.
Who Killed Amanda Palmer
witchbreed
witches
Wolves in the Walls
womb
Wonder Woman
Woolf, Virginia
X-Men
Yvaine
Zelda
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