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Grace under Pressure: Grey's Anatomy Uncovered
Editor: Cynthia Burkhead and Hillary Robson
Date Of Publication: May 2008
Isbn13: 9781847185341
Isbn: 1-84718-534-7
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Hillary Robson is an adjunct faculty member in the departments of English and University Studies and is a full-time academic advisor for undeclared students in the Academic Support Center. Her areas of scholastic interest are composition, pedagogy, fandom and fan culture, and popular culture studies.

She has published essays in composition texts on using popular culture in the classroom; on composition leaders in the field of composition; and contributed essays on fandom and fan cultures for the television series Alias, Lost, and Veronica Mars. She is a co-author of the books Saviing the World: A Guide to Heroes, Lost's Buried Treasures, and Unlocking Battlestar Galactica; served as research assistant and contributor to Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide , and is co-program chair with Stacia Watkins for the upcoming meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture of the South Conference in 2008.

Cynthia Burkhead is an Instructor at the University of North Alabama. She earned her MA at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and is a PhD candidate

at Middle Tennessee State University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which will focus on the narrative function of dreams in television. Burkhead is the author of Student Companion to John Steinbeck (Greenwood, 2002).

“Television has always seduced viewers with guilty pleasures, shows and series never missed but never admitted to. Being only human, television scholars, too, have their embarrassing delights, and one of mine has continued to be Grey's Anatomy. But now that we have Grace Under Pressure, Cynthia Burkhead and Hillary Robson's smart and astute collection, it is time to come out of the (medical) closet, get out of the elevator, and accept, guilt-free, Shonda Rimes' medical melodrama into the quality pantheon.”

-- David Lavery, Founding Editor of Critical Studies in Television

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