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Josefine Smith is an associate professor and instruction & assessment librarian at Shippensburg University. Smith received the John S. Patterson Award for Academic Excellence in American Studies. Her research centers on the relationship between consuming information impacts identity development and gender norm construction. She has presented research on gender construction in popular fiction and in popular animated series, and is in the process of publishing two journal articles on gender in New Adult fiction, a subgenre of romance, and gender representation in the animated series Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Smith also researches learning and information literacy, and relationships between student identity and their research self-efficacy in the field of librarianship. Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Media and Communication, Women and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Miami University in Ohio. As a graduate student, Kollman received the inaugural Roberta Gellis Memorial Paper Award at the 2018 Reading the Romance conference for her work on feminist themes in vampire paranormal romance novels. She will also cover romance novels extensively in her forthcoming monograph on representations of female U.S. presidents in film, television, and literature. Kollman serves as the Area Chair for Gender Studies at the Midwest Popular Culture conference. She writes novels which straddle the line between speculative and romance fiction. Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman is Visiting Assistant Professor in Media and Communication, Women's Studies, and American Studies at Miami University in Ohio, USA, where she teaches courses in media and communication, women's studies, and American studies. Previously, Kollman taught at Wright State University and The Ohio State University. She received an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2015. In addition to her scholarly work, she writes speculative fiction and has had multiple novels and short stories appear in print. Her articles and reviews have been published in edited collections on the TV shows Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Severance, the history of fantasy novels, and in the journals Rock Music Studies, The Journal of Dracula Studies, The Journal of American Culture, and The Popular Culture Studies Journal. Kollman is currently co-editing a collection on popular romance fiction for Rowman & Littlefield. |
