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Amina Tahri Escalera received her M.A. in French Literature from Université de Nantes (France) in 2003, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. there. Her research to date has focused on the work of late nineteeth and twentieth century French fiction. Her dissertation investigates Edmond Rostand’s oeuvre from the perspective of its literary and rhetorical devices in the presentation of Rostand’s views on tradition and modernity. Her critical edition of an original play by Rostand, “Faust”, will be published in 2008. Tahri Escalera is instructor of French at Minot State University in North Dakota.

Bree Hoskin recently completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. She has published poetry through the University of Western Australia Press and has an upcoming publication in the Literature/Film Quarterly. She currently resides in London.

Bruce Janz is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida, and director for the Center for Humanities and Digital Research. His research is rooted in contemporary European philosophy (phenomenology and hermeneutics), which finds its way into diverse fields such as African philosophy, research on place and space, contemporary cultural theory, theories of interdisciplinarity, and the history of mysticism. In all these cases, he is concerned about how meaning is experienced and expressed outside of mainstream disciplines and at the interstices of communities of knowledge. He has published in Reconstructions, City and Community, Philosophy Today, Philosophia Africana, Janus Head, Studies in Religion, and other places. His Ph.D. is from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Jacqui May is a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Studies Ph.D. program in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. A true interdisciplinary scholar, her academic interests include media studies, visual culture, ethnic studies, history, and archaeology. Her mixed-media paintings, collages, and photographs have appeared in exhibitions in South Florida, New Zealand, France, and New York City. Two of her works are in the permanent collection of The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Mexico City.

Kim S. Theriault completed her doctorate at the University of Virginia and is currently Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. Her book Modern Making and the Myth of the Artist: Displacement, Trauma, and the Crisis of Arshile Gorky offers new interpretive insights into the artist’s work and should be available in 2008 from Ashgate Publishing. She also writes on the subjects of myth, memory, and trauma in relation to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

Paul Williams is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Exeter, which explored the influence of the nuclear threat on cultural texts from Britain, France, and the United States. Running throughout his published and forthcoming work is a concern with how the idea of race and the assumptions of colonialism resurface in the representation of modern war. He has followed these ideas in the Vietnam War film genre, in the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, in Langston Hughes’ depiction of the racist politics of nuclear defense, and in the relationship between hip-hop culture and the War on Terror.

Amanda Irwin Wilkins received her Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2005. Her dissertation was entitled “Ghosts Between Wars: History and the Imagination in Proust, Woolf, and Green.” Now an Assistant Director at the Princeton Writing Program, she teaches freshman composition and manages the Writing Center.

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