Gannit Ankori
Gannit Ankori is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She served as visiting Associate Professor at the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School in 2005-2006, where she worked on her forthcoming book titled: “A Faith of Their Own: Women Artists Re-Vision Religion,” investigating the nexus that links gendered bodies, women’s lives, religion and contemporary art. Her most recent book Palestinian Art (Reaktion Books, London, 2006) was hailed by reviewers as a “pioneering academic study” (Boston Globe); “an immense contribution”(Jordan Times) and “a beautifully produced gem of an art book” (Book Depository). Her first two books Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo’s Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation (2002) and Frida Kahlo: Diary, Art, Life (2003)], several key articles, and a museum exhibition that she curated in New York were devoted to the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Ankori’s research and numerous publications focus on the visual representation of gender-related issues, the construction of post-colonial identities, exile, trauma and the ethics and aesthetics of hybridity.

Derek Attridge
Derek Attridge was educated in South Africa and England, and has taught in England, Scotland, France, and the U.S.A. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, England. His books include Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Cornell and Methuen, 1988; reissued by Routledge, 2004), Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1995), Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge, 2000),The Singularity of Literature (Routledge, 2004), J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (Chicago and Natal, 2004), and the co-author of Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (Routledge, 2003). How to Read Joyce is forthcoming from Granta Press in 2007. Among his research interests are South African literature, Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory, and the performance of poetry.

Leo Bersani
Leo Bersani was for many years the Class of 1950 Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1986), The Culture of Redemption (1990), Homos (1995), and, in collaboration with Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio's Secrets (1998) and Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity (2004).

Steven Connor
Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London and Academic Director of the London Consortium, a Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies taught in collaboration between Birkbeck, Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Architectural Association. He is a writer, broadcaster and cultural historian, who has written books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce and post-war British fiction, as well as Postmodernist Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989, 2nd edn 1996), Theory and Cultural Value (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), The Book of Skin (London: Reaktion, 2003) and Fly (London: Reaktion, 2006). He is currently at
work on a study of the historical poetics of the air. His website at www.stevenconnor.com includes lectures, broadcasts, unpublished work and work in progress.

Saurabh Dube
Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Centre for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His authored books include Untouchable Pasts (State University of New York Press, 1998; Sage/Vistaar, 2001), Stitches on Time (Duke University Press and Oxford University Press, 2004), After Conversion (Oxford Unversity Press, forthcoming) and a trilogy in historical anthropology in the Spanish language comprising Sujetos subalternos (2001), Genealogías del presente (2003), and Historias esparcidas (2006) published by El Colegio de México. Among his ten edited and co-edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages (Oxford University Press, 2004), Unbecoming Modern (Social Science Press, 2006), Historical Anthropology (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007), and Enchantments of Modernity (Routledge, forthcoming).

Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia. His books include Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (Stanford, 2001) and The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (Chicago, 2005). His current research on liturgy and vernacular culture is funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Prickly Paradigm will publish his new book, Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror, in 2007.