Authors Notes
Julia R. Johnson is currently a Visiting Lecturer at California State University, Northridge. She is interested in critical approaches to the study of communication and culture, which includes the following areas: Interpersonal/Intercultural Communication, Research Methods, Performance Studies, Rhetorical Studies and Critical Pedagogy. She is the author/co-author of "Gendered and Racialized Identities and Alliances in the Classroom: Formations in Resistive Space" and "d/Deafness and the Basic Course: A Case Study of Universal Instructional Design and Students Who Are d/Deaf in the Oral (aural) Communication Classroom."

David S. Olsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles where he teaches courses in rhetoric, public address and argumentation. His research interests include the intersection of rhetoric, ethics and performance. David's recent work includes "The New Religious Right versus Media Wrongs: AFA Fights Temptation" in the Journal of Film and Video and a co-edited special edition of the Journal of Film and Video entitled "The X-Philes: Imaginations of Millennial Anxieties." He also serves on the editorial board of the American Communication Journal and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.

Marc D. Rich is an Assistant Professor of Performance and Cultural Studies in the Communication Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. Since 1993, he has facilitated hundreds of interactive workshops based on the work of Augusto Boal in educational and community settings throughout the United States and Japan. interACT, a peer troupe under his direction, uses Boal's techniques on and off campus to engage audience members on a variety of sociopolitical issues. Marc's recent publications appear in Text and Performance Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and the American Communication Journal. Marc currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Center of Theatre of the Oppressed/Applied Theatre Arts.

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