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Duane Champagne is an Associate Professor and the Director of the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and author of Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Choctaw, the Chicasaw and the Creek (1992); and American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival (1989). [Article]

Nur Bilge Criss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University. She has taught in the US and in Japan. She is the author of Müttefik Ðþgalinde Ðstanbul: 1918-1923 (1993).[Book Rewiew]

Ekaterini Georgoudaki is a Professor of American Literature and Director of the American Literature Department in the School of English at Aristotle University, as well as the President of the Hellenic Association of American Studies. She is the author of Race, Gender and Class Perspectives in the Works of Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni and Audre Lorde (1991). [Article]

Suat Karantay is a Professor of Translation Studies and the Head of the Translation and Interpreting Department at Boðaziçi University. He is the Secretary General of the Turkish PEN Center, and the author of numerous articles on translation theory and criticism, as well as on drama and American literature.[Book Review]

Ayþe Kýrtunç is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Language and Literature at Ege University. She is the author of Sözcükler Meleði: Marge Piercy ve Ýlkörneksel Eleþtiri (1994).[Interview] [Book Review]

Paul Levine is a Professor of American Literature in the English Institute at Copenhagen University. He has taught in the US, Canada and Hungary and has been on lecture tours for the USIS in numerous countries. He is the author of Lynn Chadwick: The Artist and His Work (1988);E. L. Doctorov (1985); and Divisions (1975); and co-editor of Amerikansk Kultur efter 1945 (1992).[Article]

Michael Oppermann is the Vice-rector of Abendgymnasium in Dresden, Germany. He was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. He is the author of Innere und Äussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hörspielwerk (1991). [Article] [Ed Wood Review] [Waterworld Review]

Serpil Oppermann is an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and the Deputy Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University. She is the author of several articles on modern fiction, meta-fiction and postmodernism.[Article]

Erinç Özdemir is a Research Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ankara University. She is working on a doctoral dissertation entitled "The Language of Poetry in the Works of Wordsworth and Keats: A Study in Figurative Language."[Article]

Meldan Tanrýsal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University. She has a number of articles published on New Journalism and the non-fiction novel, as well as on Native American culture and literature.[Book Review]

Aslý Tekinay is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Bo¤aziçi University. She has published several articles on modern British and American fiction and drama. [Article]

Meyda Yeðenoðlu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University. She has taught in the US. She is the author of Veiled Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (forthcoming); and co-editor of Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark (1996); and Inscriptions: Orientalism and Cultural Differences, No. 6 (1992).[Article]

Ernest Wolf-Gazo is a Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo. He has taught in Germany, the US, Belgium, Turkey, and Malaysia. He is the author of, among others,The Mandate of Philosophy (forthcoming);A. N. Whitehead: Einführung (1980);Analytic Ethics and Ethos (1974); and "Contextualizing Averroes within the German Hermeneutic Tradition" (ALIF 1996).[Article]