Jennifer Dawes - Dark Tourism in the American West

is an English graduate student at California State University, Los Angeles. As a South American transplant living in Southern California, her work is guided by the biodiversity of the Southwest. She is also the editor-at-large of Helen: A Literary Magazine . Her interests include contemporary American poetry, affect, attachment, queer theory, performance, memory, and diasporic studies. Inspired by the biodiversity of Southern California, she aims to read locally, write globally.

is a doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary academic interest is in locating and understanding the processes and dynamics of the cultural construction of knowledge in America, with a specific focus on the role and work of the prison in American culture.

is Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy and Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She has long been attracted to dark places. Her previously published work includes the book Across the Plains: Sarah Royces Western Narrative, as well as essays on cannibalism in films and authenticity in Western fiction.

is a senior lecturer in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has published essays on ultralight backpacking, land art, Alaskan literature, and sperm donation. His current work concentrates on county history museums in the Great Plains states.

is Hobart Professor of Classical Languages and Professor of History and Classics at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His work includes the investigation of human interaction, across time and space, with desert environments. His essays related to this research have been published in Cultural History , Extrapolation , and Boom California , and in collected volumes dealing with the Greek and Roman world.

is a Ph.D. student in U.S. History at Indiana University, Bloomington. His primary research interests are U.S. immigration policy in the Progressive Era, Russian immigrant communities in pre-World War II U.S. and Canada, and public history. A former Fulbright scholar, Serdiukov holds an M.A. in American Studies from California State University, Fullerton.

is the Executive Director of the South Park National Heritage Area, Department of Heritage, Tourism and Community Development in Park County, Colorado. Originally from England, Spencer has been professionally involved in interpretation and heritage for over 20 years. He has a masters degree in Heritage Management from Birmingham (U.K.) and specializes in the role of interpretation and memory within heritage landscapes.

is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University. Streamas is an immigrant Japanese American, and his scholarly work examines race in higher education, the cultures of Japanese American wartime incarceration, and the racial politics of fictional temporalities and spatial enclosures such as in barbed wire. His published work includes fiction, poetry, and personal essays.