ROY BOYNE Professor of Sociology at Durham UniversityUTE FENDLER currently working on Spanish travel literature of the eighteenth centuryANGELA FLURY PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of CaliforniaMARION FRANK working on a research project aiming to establish a closer link between literary/ cultural studies and medicine/medical anthropologySYLVIE GAMBAUDO Lecturer in European Studies at University College StocktonJAN B. GORDON Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesURIKE HORSTMANN University of Würzburg, writing her doctoral thesis on the names in Spenser's the Faerie QueenROLF HUGOSON Lecturer at the Center for Research and Debate on Cultural Policy, at the University College of BoråsSILVIA MERGENTHAL Professor at the University of KonstanzLILIANA MIHUT Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political SciencePAUL NIXON Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Teesside