Richard Parker is an academic, editor and poet. He teaches English and American literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has written a series of critical prose on twentieth-century poetry, with a particular emphasis on American modernism and the New American Poetry. He has edited two volumes of essays on Ezra Pound and is currently working on a monograph on the modernists during the 1960s. He is also working on sports literature, the history of the book and numerous other topics. Alexander Howard is Senior Lecturer in Writing Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on modernism and contemporary literature and film. He is currently working on three main research projects. The first considers the relationship between cultural production and the politics and economics of austerity. The second deals with the historical and stylistic development of American film criticism. The third focuses on the work of the contemporary filmmaker Olivier Assayas.