Gary R. Edgerton is professor and chair of the communication and theater arts department at Old Dominion University
in Norfolk, Virginia. He has published eight books and more than seventy book chapters and journal articles on
a wide assortment of television and media history topics, and is coeditor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television.
In 2004 he received the American Culture Association Governing Board Award for Outstanding Contributions to American
Cultural Studies.