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Douglas W. Cooper is a member of the English Department at Guangzhou Foreign Studies University in China. He has taught in various universities in the US, China, Japan and Turkey. He is the author of History of Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography of Titles at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1984),Region 4 Resources : A Directory (1977), and co-author of Mass Communications Research Guide (1981).

Paul J. Croce is Associate Professor of American Studies at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. A specialist on 19th century American cultural and intellectual history, he is the author of numerous articles and Science and Religion in the Era of William James, vol.1:Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880 (1995).

E. Lâle Demirtürk is an Associate Professor and acting chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. She has translated various authors into Turkish and published numerous articles on American and Turkish literatures, short story aesthetics and translation theory.

David Espey is Director of Freshman English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has held Senior Fulbright Lectureships at Hacettepe University and Mohamed V University in Morocco. He has published on the literature of Empire, travel literature, Native American literature, and contemporary non-fiction.

Lawrence B. Goodheart is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut University. He is the author of Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist (1990) and co-editor of The Abolitionist (1995),Slavery in American Society (1993,) and American Chameleon (1991).

Peter Grieco is a Visiting Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. He has published "Large from a Distance," a perspective on multiculturalism in Turkey, in the Fall 1995 issue of Folkroads: A Journal of Ethnic American Literature.

Z. Rüçhan Kayalar is a member of the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University. Her areas of interest are 20th century literary criticism and modern British fiction. She has published various articles on contemporary English novelists.

Ayfle Kýrtunç is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Language and Literature at Ege University. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of San Francisco. Her areas of interest are American history, contemporary American fiction and popular culture. Her book on Marge Piercy, published recently, is reviewed in this issue of JAST.

Michael Oppermann is a former Assistant Professor at the Department of German Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. He is currently Vice-rector of Abendgymnasium in Dresden, Germany. His Ph.D. dissertation on German radio drama was published in Germany as Innere und Äussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hörspielwerk (1991).

Gönül Pultar is a member of the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University. She is the author of numerous articles on modern fiction, women writers, ex-Soviet cultures as well as the novels Dünya bir Atlýkarýnca (1979), Ellerimden Su Ýçsinler and the forthcoming Technique and Tradition in Beckett's Trilogy of Novels (1996). Laurence Raw is Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the British Council in Ankara, and in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. He is the author of Changing Class Attitudes (1994) and The Country and the City (1995). At present he is working on a book about Britain for Cambridge University Press.

Nick Selby is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. His research interests include Whitman, Sexuality and the Beats, American poetry and popular culture. He has published essays on Walt Whitman, Allan Ginsberg and the 50's and Ezra Pound. He is the author of the forthcoming Ezra Pound, Fascism and American Poetics (1996).

Semiramis Yaðcýoðlu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at Dokuz Eylül University. Her publications include articles on language, ideology and subjectivity. Her current interests center on literary communication, discourse analysis and contemporary literary theories.