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Cem Can <tcemcan@pamuk.cu.edu.tr> is an Instructor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Çukurova University and a doctoral candidate. His dissertation examines the acquisition of Turkish as a first language.

William DeGenaro <bdegenaro@aol.com> is a member of the Department of English at Youngstown State University. He is currently completing his master's thesis entitled "The Nature of Working-Class Literature: An Ecofeminist Critique" which examines intersections of gender and environment in the literature of the American working-class.

Magdalena Delicka <mandel@krysia.uni.lodz.pl> is a member of the Department of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz and a doctoral candidate. Her dissertation examines how American bicultural authors such as Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrisson and Amy Tan dissolve the borders between cultures.

Dilek Direnç <dilek@edebiyat.ege.edu.tr> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ege University. She has published various articles on twentieth-century American authors.

F. Özden Ekmekçi is a Professor of English Language Teaching and the Head of the Department of English Language Teaching at Çukurova University. She is the author of Research Manual for Social Sciences (1997), Ways of Attaining Study Skills (1994) and Psikodilbilim (Psycholinguistics, 1991).

William S. Haney II <haney@vivaldi.emu.edu.tr> is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and Humanities at Eastern Mediterranean University. He taught in Germany and the US. He is the author of Literary Theory and Sanskrit Poetics (1993), the editor of the Proceedings of the First Annual Cypriot Studies Conference (1996), and the co-editor of Literary Theory, Self-Referral, and Consciousness (1995) which was a special issue of Modern Science and Vedic Science.

Emine Onaran İncirlioğlu <incirli@bilkent.edu.tr> is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Bilkent University. She taught in the UK and the US. She is the author of, among others, “Ethnographic Images of Village Women in Turkey: Models and Anomalies” in Deconstructing Images of the Turkish Woman (forthcoming), and the co-author, with Paul Stirling, of “Choosing Spouses: Villagers, Migrants, Kinship and Time” in Turkish Families in Transition (forthcoming).

Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç <kirtunc@egent.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.

Alexander Kitroeff  <akitroef@haverford.edu> is Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department of  Haverford College. He is  the author of Wartime Jews: The Case of Athens (1996), Griegos en America (Greeks in America, 1992) and The Greeks in Egypt: Ethnicity and  Class 1919-1937 (1989).

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).

Cyrus R. K. Patell <patell@is.nyu.edu> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at New York University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1991-93). He was the recipient, among others, of the Golden Dozen Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, New York University (1995), the Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize, Harvard University (1992), and the Hoopes Teaching Award, Harvard University (1991). He is the author of Emergent American Literatures in The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Seven (forthcoming); and of Joyce's Use of History in Finnegan's Wake (1984); and the associate editor of The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volumes I and II (1994).