Ann V. Bliss is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in English (with a minor in Feminist Theory and Research) from the University of California, Davis. She teaches classes on 19th and 20th century American literature, women’s literature and visual culture. Her research interests include literature and photography, popular culture in contemporary American literature, and women’s domestic fiction. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines representations of the home economics movement and domestic work in popular culture, including middle-brow popular fiction, from the first half of the twentieth century. She has published on such diverse topics as the songs of Bruce Springsteen and abstinence in the Twilight series. Her most recent article, in the Journal of American Studies, discusses early twentieth-century women radio broadcasters in the American Mid-west – known as radio homemakers—and their relationship with their listeners.