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Matthew Henry is a member of the faculty at Richland College in Dallas,
Texas, where he teaches courses in Composition, African American Literature,
and Cultural Studies. He has published critical essays in African American
Review, Critique, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, The Journal
of Popular Film and Film Television, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Teaching
English in the Two-Year College. His essay on gay identity on The Simpsons was
recently re-published in the book Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the
Possibility of Oppositional Culture (Wayne State UP, 2004).