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Ðrem Balkðr teaches American Culture at Bilkent University. She has published on the theme of empire in American culture and is currently writing a book on "cosmopolitanism." This article is part of a complementing project on "counter- narratives of nationalism."

Robert J. Bertholf is the Curator of The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. During the fall semester 1994-95 , he was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University. He is the author of Robert Duncan: Descriptive Bibliography (1986), A Descriptive Catalog of the Private Library of Thomas B. Lockwood (1983), and William Blake and the Moderns (1980); he has recently edited two volumes of writing by Robert Duncan: Selected Poetry and A Selected Prose (1993).

Neclâ Çðkðgil is Associate Professor of English, Drama and the History of Theatre at the Middle East Technical University. Her major research is in Shakespeare and the production of his plays. She also writes on dance and contemporary ballet performances.

Clifford Endres has spent four years in Turkey on two Fulbright grants, teaching at Ege University and at present at Bo¤aziçi University. He is the author of a book on country music, Austin City Limits (1987); a book on the Neo-latin love elegy, Johannes Secundus: The Latin Love Elegy in the Renaissance (1982); several articles on American and English poetry, and a fair amount of rock journalism. He is presently interested in Turkish popular culture.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin and author of Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (1993), From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (1988) and co-editor of Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism (1994). She is co-editor of the "Race and American Culture" book series published by Oxford University Press.

Lawrence B. Goodheart is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut University and visiting at Bilkent University for this academic year. 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).

Ayþe Kðrtunç 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. A book on Marge Piercy is forthcoming.

Sibel Irzðk teaches English Literature at Bo¤aziçi University. Her publications include Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism (1990) and articles on literary theory, modern British, American and Turkish novelists. Her current research interests center on contemporary literary theories, the theory of the novel and cultural studies.

Michael Oppermann is an Assistant Professor at the Department of German Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. He was a Fulbrighter at Texas Tech University. His Ph.D. dissertation on German radio drama was published in Germany as Innere und Äussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hörspielwerk (1991).