Contributors Hasan Al-Zubi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mu’tah University (Jordan). He taught at Indiana University and served as “English Curriculum” consultant at the Ministry of Education of Jordan. He is the author of numerous articles in the fields of American and English literatures, and comparative literature.
Dilek Doltaş is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, at present Dean of Students at Koç University (1999- ). She served as Director of the School of Foreign Languages (1982-1984 and 1988-1989) and founding Chair of the Department of Translation Studies (1983-1990) at Boğaziçi University. She taught at Middle East Technical University, Hacettepe University and for many years at Boğaziçi University. She was a research fellow at New York University (1975), London University (1979-1980), Duke University (1990), and University of California at Irvine (1991). She co-coordinated the “Fairy Tale: An Interdisciplinary Turco-Danish Study of the Collective vs. Individual Nature of the Response to Literature” project (1979-1982). She is the author of Medieval versus Nineteenth Century Art and Ideology: Tristan (1979), Postmodernizm: Tartışmalar ve Uygulamalar (Postmodernism: Debates and Applications, 1999), and of numerous articles.
Teresa Moralejo Gárate is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her research interests cover different areas of English Studies. She is now mainly focused on English Historical Linguistics and has given different papers on this area at various national and international conferences.
Jeffrey Howlett is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Başkent University, and will be joining the Humanities Division at Wayne State College, Nebraska as an Assistant Professor next fall. He is the author of numerous articles focused on writers as diverse as Nawal El-Saadawi, Sadeq Hedayat, and Ken Kesey.
Victoria Lipina-Berezkina is Professor of English and Comparative Philological Studies at Dnepropetrovsk University (Ukraine), currently a Visiting Professor at Başkent University. She is the author of The Formation and Development of the Seventeenth-Century English Essay, 1984, The Eighteenth-Century English Essay, 1988, The Stylistics of the Eighteenth-Century English Prose, 1989, The Poetics and the Stylistics of the Essay Genre: Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Johnson, 1990 and The Advent of Modern English Prose, 1993, and of numerous articles on American, English, and Russian literatures.
Anna Notaro is currently Research Fellow in Visual Culture at the School of American and Canadian Studies of the University of Nottingham (U.K.), working on a project entitled “Three American Cities.” She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Royal Holloway at the University of London (1995-1997), working on a research project entitled “Imperial Cities: Landscape, Space and performance in Rome and London, 1850-1950.” She is at present working on a book provisionally entitled “Just Imagine: Visions of the Future in the American Modernist Metropolis 1890s-1930s.”
Michael Oppermann is the Rector of Abendgymnasium in Dresden, Germany. He was a Fulbright scholar in the US and has taught in Turkey. He is the author of Innere und Aussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hör-spielwerk (1991), and of numerous articles.
Laurence Raw is Senior Lecturer in English in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Başkent University. He was formerly the Cultural Studies officer at the British Council in Ankara. He taught at Bilkent University, and during various periods of time at Boğaziçi University, Ege University, Hacettepe University, and Middle East Technical University. He is the author of Changing Class Attitudes (1994) and Country and the City (1997), and the co-editor of Crossing the Boundaries (1997), History of Culture/Culture of History (1998), Popular Culture (1999) and Dialogue and Difference (forthcoming).
Cristina M. T. Stevens is Professor of English and U.S. American Literature in the Department of Literary Theory and Literatures, and the Coordinator of the M.A. Programme in Applied Linguistics at the University of Brasilia. She serves as the Secretary of the Brazilian Association of University Professors of English. She is the editor of Quando O Tio Sam Pegar No Tamborim: Uma Visão Transcultural do Brasil (When Uncle Sam Plays the Tamborim: A Transcultural Vision of Brasil, forthcoming), and the author of numerous articles.