Salvador Jimenéz Murguía, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology. He is the co-editor of Encyclopedia of Spanish Cinema (2018) and A Cuban Cinema Companion (2019) as well as the editor of Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films (2016) and Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (2018), all published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Erica Joan Dymond, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at East Stroudsburg University and a consulting editor for the academic journal The Explicator. Her research has been published in The Journal of Popular Culture as well numerous books such as The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films and TheEncyclopedia of Cuban Cinema.

Dr. Kristina Fennelly teaches at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. She has served as a book reviewer for Composition Studies, as an associate editor to The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, and as a contributor to the professional blog The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.