Catherine Baldit is a member of the research group CRHEU (Centre de Recherches de L’Histoire des États-Unis) at the Institut d’Études Anglophones Charles V, Université Paris VII. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on “Contemporary American Indian Fine Art of the Southwest of the United States. ”
E. Lâle Demirtürk <demirturk@bilkent.edu.tr> is an Associate Professor of American Studies teaching in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. She was the acting chair of the department between 1990-1997. She is the author of Çağdaş Amerikalı Zenci Romancılar (Contemporary African American Novelists, 1997).
Barış Gümüşbaş is a member of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University. He is an editorial assistant of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “Melville's Voyage: Rolling from the Center Towards X. “
Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç <kirtunc@egenet.com.tr>
is an Associate Professor of American Studies in the Department of American
Culture and Literature at Ege University. She is the author of Sözcükler
Meleği: Marge Piercy ve İlkörneksel Eleştiri (Angel of Words: Marge
Piercy and Archetypal Criticism, 1994), and the translator of Erotizm
ve Politika (Eroticism and The Body Politic, 1996). She is presently
working on her forthcoming “The Eye of the Needle” focusing on women characters
who have attained personal and social salvation through sewing, embroidery,
quilting, etc.
Günseli Sönmez İşçi is an Associate
Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature
at Ege University. She specializes in the teaching of drama and has published
numerous articles on Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Stuart E. Knee is a Professor of History at the University of Charleston, NC. He was the Director of the Jewish Studies Program of that university during 1986-1992, and the Chair of the Department of History at Otterbein College, OH during 1984-1986. He is the author of Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy (1994), Harvey Allen: Literary Historian in America, 1889-1949 (1988), and The Concept of Zionist Dissent in the American Mind 1917-1941 (1979).
Michael Oppermann is the 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).
Gönül Pultar <gonul@bilkent.edu.tr> is a member of the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University. She is the Vice-President of the American Studies Association of Turkey (1994- ), a member of the International Committee of the ASA (1997-2000), and the founding editor of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey. She is the author of Technique and Tradition in Beckett’s Trilogy of Novels (1996), and of the novels Ellerimden Su İçsinler (Let Them Drink Water from my Hands, forthcoming) and Dünya Bir Atlıkarınca (The World is a Merry-go-round, 1979).
Susana Vega is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oviedo, Spain, where she holds a research fellowship. She is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on contemporary black women writers in the United States.