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Carl Jay Buchanan is the Acting Chair of the Liberal Arts Department at American University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). He has taught in the United States, Turkey, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Winner of various writing awards, he is the author of a forthcoming book of poetry entitled Ripper.[Poem]

Nur Bilge Criss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, and the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Social and Administrative Sciences at Bilkent University. She has taught in the United States and Japan. She is the author of Müttefik Ýþgalinde Ýstanbul: 1918-1923 (1993).[Book Review]

Charles Gates is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University. He has taught in the United States. He is the author of From Cremation to Inhumation: Burial Practices at Ialysos and Kameiros during the Mid-Archaic Period, ca. 625-525 BC (1983).[Article]

Peter Grieco is a member of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. A practicing poet, he has also published essays and fiction in the United States and Turkey.[Article]

Sema Kormalý is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature, at present teaching in the Department of English at Bilkent University. She was the chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Gazi University (Ankara) during the years 1986-1993. She is the author of Ambivalence and Ambiguity: The Minor Novels of Thomas Hardy (1988).[Article]

Jerzy Kutnik is the Director of the English Teacher Training College at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland). He is the author of the forthcoming Gral Slow: Muzyka Poezji Johna Cagea, of John Cage: Przypadek Paradoksalny (1993), and of The Novel as Performance: the Fiction of Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman (1986), and the co-editor of Re-Visioning of Democracy: Central Europe and America (1995).[Article]

Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara is a Lecturer in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Jane Austen at Play: Self-Consciousness, Beginnings, Endings (1993); and is presently working on her forthcoming Women East and West: Connections and Contradictions in Masterpieces of World Literature.[Article]

Toming Jun Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He has taught in China. He has published articles on translation, modernism, and American authors, as well as works of translation in various genres.[Article]

Mahmut Mutman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Bilkent University. He has taught in the United States. He is the co-editor of Oryantalizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark (1996).[Article]

Marwan Obeidat is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the United Arab Emirates University. He was the editor of Abhath Al-Yarmouk: Literature and Linguistics Series in Jordan during 1988-1991. He is the author of the forthcoming American Literature and Orientalism.[Article]

Michael Oppermann is the Vice-rector of Abendgymnasium in Dresden, Germany. He is the author of Innere und Äussere Wirklichkeit in Günter Eichs Hörspielwerk (1991).[Film Reviews]

Akþin Somel is the Acting Chair of the Department of History at Bilkent University. He has taught in Germany. He is the author of the forthcoming Autocracy and Education: Ottoman Public Education in the Provinces during the Hamidian Period. [Book Review]