Robert Allison is an Assistant Professor of History and the Director of the American Studies Program at Suffolk University. He also teaches at the Harvard University Extension School. He is the author of The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 (1995) and of numerous articles on the Barbary wars and US-Islam relations.

Dilek Direnç is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ege University. She is the author of numerous articles on American literature and contemporary Turkish women authors.

Jeanne Dubino is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, but will be joining Plymouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire in the fall of 1999 as an Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, popular culture, postcolonial fiction, and travel literature.

Aslı Geçim is a student in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. She plans to do graduate work in American Studies.

John J. Grabowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University and the Director of Research of The Western Reserve Historical Society. He served as a senior Fulbright lecturer at Bilkent University during the 1996-1997 academic year. He is the author of Sports in Cleveland: An Illustrated History (1992), co-author of Polish Americans and their Communities in Cleveland (1976), the managing editor of the online edition of Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (1998- ) and Dictionary of Cleveland Biography (1998- ), and co-editor of Cleveland: A Tradition of Reform (1986), Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (1987, 1996), and Dictionary of Cleveland Biography (1996).

Pierre Guerlain is a Professor of American Studies at Université du Maine (France) and also teaches at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is the author of Miroirs transatlantiques; la France et les Etats-Unis entre passions et indifférences (1996) and of numerous articles with a special focus on current social issues in the US.

Jamil Khader is a member of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of (Dis)Positionings: Postcolonial Women’s Writings, (Post)Nationalism, Transnationalism (forthcoming), and numerous articles on postcoloniality and Third World feminisms.

Stefano Luconi is a member of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florence (Italy). He was a fellow at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization. He is the author of Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli italo-americani (forthcoming) and of numerous articles on electoral behavior in the United States.

Pramod Nayar is a member of the Department of P.G. Studies in English at Kuvempu University (India). He is the co-editor of Modern Indian Poetry in English (forthcoming), and Novelists of the Indian Diaspora (forthcoming), and of numerous articles.

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 Hörspielwerk (1991), and of numerous articles.

Kathlene Postma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mississippi State University. Her work on Demetra Vaka Brown began in 1995, when she taught in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University. She has presented papers on Vaka Brown at conferences in the United States and Turkey. She has also published numerous short stories and is currently working on a novel, set partially in Turkey.

Laurence Raw is currently the Cultural Studies officer at the British Council in Ankara but will be joining Başkent University (Ankara) as a member of the Department of American Culture and Literature in the fall of 1999. He taught at Bilkent University, and also at Middle East Technical University (Ankara), Hacettepe University (Ankara), Boğaziçi University (İstanbul) and Ege University (İzmir). 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).

Seçil Saraçlı is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Ege University and the author of a number of articles.