city on fire
about the authors
Lisa Odham Stokes received a B.A. (summa cum laude) in English
from Emory University, an M.A. in English from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel-Hill and a Ph.D. in English from the University of
Florida. Since 1983 she has taught Humanities and English at Seminole
Community College in Central Florida. In 1991 Stokes participated in a
National Endowment for the Arts Summer Institute on Shakespeare. She has
traveled to Colombia, Europe, Hong Kong and the PRC and has developed a
number of multimedia projects for use in the classroom.
Michael Hoover received a B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science
from the University of Florida, an M.A. in Political Science from the
University of Central Florida, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from
Union Institute. Hoover taught for a number of years in the adult
education program at Seminole Community College (SCC) in Central
Florida. Since 1987 he has taught Political Science as a member of the
Department of Social Sciences at SCC. Hoover has also been an adjunct
professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. He
was a 1988 National Endowment for the Humanities seminarian, a Who's Who
Among America's Teachers selectee in 1996 and he serves on the editorial
board of the journal *New Political Science*.
Committed to teaching community college students, Lisa Odham Stokes and
Michael Hoover view the classroom as a site of contested terrain and an
extension of their political activism. Their previous work together
includes a video production and publications on arts and politics,
technoculture and disneyfication. Stokes and Hoover occasionally write
for the alternative *Orlando Weekly* newspaper and they serve on the
program selection committee for the Florida Film Festival. *City on
Fire: Hong Kong Cinema* is their first book. |
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