Toby Daspit is an assistant professor in the department of teaching, learning, and Leadership at Western Michigan University. He is the co-editor, with John A. Weaver, of Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy (2000), and Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture (forthcoming) with Susan Edgerton and Gunilla Holm. He is also the co-author, with Pamela Dean and Petra Munro, of Talking Gumbo: A Teacher's Guide to Oral History in the Classroom (1998).