Biographical note

Toby Daspit, the Assistant Professor Formerly Known as "Sparky," teaches secondary education and curriculum courses in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership at Western Michigan University. He is the co-author, with Pamela Dean and Petra Munro, of TalkingGumbo: A Teacher's Guide to Using Oral History in theClassroom. Although transforming Buffy the VampireSlayer, rap/rock music, and collage art into educational theories is a full-time job, he still finds the energy to write essays on popular cultural studies and alternative forms of curriculum theorizing, and to fish in the swamps of Louisiana Educated at the University of Pittsburgh and in the wasteland of TV land, John A. Weaver is the author of (Re-) Thinking Academic Politics in (Re-)unifiedGermany and the United States (RoutledgeFalmer) and co-edited with Marla Morris and Peter Appelbaum (Post)Modern Science (Education) and Difficulty Memories: Talkin a Post-Holocaust Era. He also has written on Rap, TheSimpsons, information technology, the Post-Human condition, and Higher Educational reform. When he is not writing and reading, he is furthering his education at the movies or in front of the television.