Christine Geraghty is Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Glasgow. She has published on British Cinema of the 1950/60s, on television fiction particularly soap operas, and on classic adaptations.
Julie Anne Taddeo teaches British history at University of Maryland, College Park, USA. She is the author of
Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (Haworth, 2002); She has edited and co-edited the following collections:
Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Televisionfrom The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey (with James Leggott; Rowman & Littlefield, 2014);
Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology (with Cynthia J. Miller, Scarecrow, 2012); Catherine Cookson Country: On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction and History (Ashgate 2012);
The Tube HasSpoken: Reality TV & History (with Ken Dvorak, University Press of Kentucky, 2009). She is an Associate Editor for
The Journal of Popular Television (published by Intellect) and is Secretary of the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS).