Joe Culpepper is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Reception and Adaptation: Magic Tricks, Mysteries, Con Games.

He can usually be found working at Robarts library, reading in a collection of rare books or having a lively discussion with friends and colleagues at Massey College.

His latest article “Births, Deaths and Reincarnations of Reception Theory” appears in Frame 24.1 (May 2011) .