Robin U. Russin is a Professor of Screenwriting at the University of California, Riverside, where he serves as director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. He has written, produced and directed film, TV, theater and transmedia projects. Russin is coauthor of Naked Playwriting. A Rhodes Scholar, he holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, Rhode Island School of Design, and UCLA, where he earned an MFA in screenwriting.
WilWilliam M. Downs is the associate dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, an associate professor of Political Science, and the co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University. He is the author ofnbsp;Coalition Government, Subnational Style: nbsp;Multiparty Politics in Europe’s Regional Parliamentsnbsp;and has published research articles on political parties, electoral behavior, legislative institutions, and extremism in such journals asnbsp;Parliamentary Affairs,nbsp;West European Politics,nbsp;Electoral Studies,nbsp;Government & Opposition,nbsp;Journal of Contemporary European Studies,nbsp;Contemporary… Politics, andnbsp;Perspectives on European Politics and Society. Downs has held a Fulbright research fellowship in Belgium, been a research fellow at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and served as a visiting faculty member at Aarhus University in Denmark.