Randy Laist

Randy Laist, Ph.D., is a professor of English at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI (2024), The Twin Towers in Film: A Cinematic History of the World Trade Center (2020), Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (2015), and Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (2009). He has also edited volumes of essays on college movies, plant studies, Indiana Jones, retro...See more

Randy Laist, Ph.D., is a professor of English at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI (2024), The Twin Towers in Film: A Cinematic History of the World Trade Center (2020), Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (2015), and Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (2009). He has also edited volumes of essays on college movies, plant studies, Indiana Jones, retro-representations of the 1980s, and inclusive educational design. He lives in New Haven with his wife, two kids, and Sigmund the cat. Brian A. Dixon, Ph.D., is a cultural studies scholar and media critic who serves as a professor of English at Goodwin University. His academic writings include studies concerning nineteenth-century American literature, detectives in film and fiction, ethnic humor in British sitcoms, archetypes in comic books, the works of Ian Fleming, and the James Bond films. He is the author of Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast: James Bond and the Body (2024). With writing partner Adam Chamberlain, Dixon has edited Columbia & Britannia: An Alternate History (2009), nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, as well as the acclaimed television retrospective Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter's Millennium (2012). See less