Emily Apter is Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the editor of a book series, “Translation/ Transnation,” published by Princeton University Press. Her most recent book is The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton University Press, 2005) . Her other publications include Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. with William Pietz (Cornell University Press, 1991), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1991), and André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality (Stanford French and Italian Studies 48, Anma Libri, 1987).

Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has also co-edited (with Martin Orkin) Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998), and written articles on early modern drama and culture, Shakespeare, as well as contemporary India. Most recently, she has co-edited (with Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, Matti Bunzl and Jed Esty) Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005). She is currently co-editing (with Jonathan Burton) Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion.

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bernhard, Modernism, psychoanalysis and literary theory. His publications include The Ghosts of Modernity, (University of Florida Press, 1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (Cambridge UP, 2001) and Jacques Lacan and Literature (Palgrave, 2001). He has recently edited three collections of essays, Writing the Image after Roland Barthes, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Jacques Lacan in America (The Other Press, Fall 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002). More recent publications include: The Future of Theory (Blackwell, 2002), On the diagram: the art of Marjorie Welish, co-edited with Aaron Levy (2004), Palgrave Advances: A Guide to James Joyce Studies (ed., 2004), Architecture Against Death: On Arakwa and Gins, two volumes, editor, and Tout dire ou ne rien dire, logiques du mensonge (Calmann-Levy 2005).

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan is the Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Irvine. He previously taught at the University of Massachusetts between 1984 and 2004. Author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell, 2003), and History, the Human, and the World Between (Duke, Forthcoming 2007), he is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled When is the Political? for Duke University Press. In addition, Dr. Radhakrishnan is also currently editing a collection titled Theory, Transgression, Translation for Pencroft India and co-editing (with Susan Koshy) Subalternity and the South Asian Diaspora. Winner of several awards and Fellowships including the Fulbright, his essays have appeared in a wide range of national international journals and collections. He has translated comntemporary Tamil fiction into English, and has published a volume of Tamil poems. His teaching interests include Critical Theory, Asian American Studies, Poststructuralism, Postcoloniality, Globalization, Ethnicity, Feminisms, and Nationalisms and Diasporas.

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU, 1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Columbia, 1986; Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993). He has edited Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics (Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere (Minnesota, 1993) and co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (Minnesota, 1998). He was co-editor of the journal Social Text from 1991 to 2000. He has a book coming out from Princeton University Press on upward mobility stories and is working on another about cosmopolitan fiction.