Dr. Adam Golub is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. His research interests include popular culture, the history of education and childhood, and the globalization of American culture. Among the courses he teaches at Cal State Fullerton are “Adolescent America,” “Childhood and Family in American Culture,” “The Cold War and American Culture,” and “American Popular Culture and the World.” His writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Film and History, and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. He recently published an article on the global reception of the film The Blackboard Jungle in Red Feather: An International Journal of Children’s Visual Culture. Dr. Golub has a Ph.D. in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin, an M.A.T. in English from Boston College, and a B.A. in English from Vassar College. Before coming to Cal State, he taught in the Education Studies Department at Guilford College in North Carolina, where he worked with pre-service English and Social Studies teachers. From 1992 to 1997, he taught high school English in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.