Kim Akass has written extensively on US TV. She is one of the co-founding editors of the television journal Critical Studies in Television as well as (with Janet McCabe) series editor of ‘Reading Contemporary Television’ for IB Tauris. She is webmistress of the TV studies website
CSTonline and is currently researching the representation of motherhood in the media.
Janet McCabe is Honorary Research Fellow in TV Drama at Birkbeck, University of London, as well as Research Assistant (Critical Studies in Television) based at the University of Glamorgan. She has (along with Kim Akass) co-edited several collections, including
Reading Sex and the City (2004) and
Quality TV: American Television and Beyond (2007), with their latest collaboration,
TV Betty Goes Global, published this November. She has written widely on feminism and television, and her book,
The West Wing, for the TV Milestone Series, is forthcoming.
For more, visit the
CST Online website.