Constance Penley is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elisabeth Lyon is associate professor of English and film studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Janet Bergstrom is a professor in the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. The four editors serve as coeditors of Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory.