Robert Hauhart is a professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. He and Jeff Birkenstein have coedited six volumes of essays, including most recently Significant Food in American Literature. He is the author of The Lonely Quest: Constructing the Self in Twenty-First Century American Life and Seeking the American Dream: A Sociological Inquiry.

Jeff Birkenstein is a professor of English at Centralia College in Washington. He and Robert Hauhart have coedited six volumes of essays, including most recently Significant Food in American Literature. He is also coeditor, with Anna Froula and Karen Randell, of The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World.