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Hélène Aji is Professor of American Literature at the Université du Maine. In addition to a number of articles on Modernist and contemporary American poetry, she is the author of Ezra Pound et William Carlos Williams: pour une poétique américaine (L'Harmattan, 2001), William Carlos Williams: un plan d'action (Belin, 2004), and a book-length essay on Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (Armand Colin, 2005). She is the editor of special issue 16 of Annales du monde anglophone on “Ezra Pound dans le vortex de la traduction” (2nd semester 2002), Ezra Pound and Referentiality (Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003), and Revue Française d'Études Américaines 103 (February 2005) on “Poètes américains, architectes du langage.” She is currently working on an Ezra Pound biography.

Christophe Chambost : Maître de Conférences à l'Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2. Thèse sur Ambrose Bierce ("La cruauté dans les nouvelles d'Ambrose Bierce, de l'excès à l'aporie"). Recherche : Littérature américaine (XIXe / XXe siècles), cinéma. Nouvel axe de recherche en anglais de spécialité : anglais du journalisme.

Noëlle Cuny is a lecturer at the Université de Haute-Alsace and holds a doctorate from Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her dissertation is entitled “Mutations of the Body in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence: History and Mysticism.” Her shorter works include discussions of the presence of the Great Prophets, of Paul of Tarsus, and of scientific discourses in the novels and essays of D.H. Lawrence. As a member of the Sorbonne Nouvelle's research group on small cultural magazines of the 1900s to the 1930s, she takes an interest in such early vehicles of modernism as Blast and Signature.

Mata Dimakopoulou received her PhD from University College London, in 2002. She works on Franco-American artistic and literary relations in the twentieth century, focusing on Surrealism, American poetry, art theory, and the postmodern dialogue with modernism the historical avant-gardes. She has written articles on Max Ernst, John Ashbery, Joseph Cornell, and the American Little Magazine Broom (1921-1924). She is currently teaching at the Greek Open University and working on a book entitled Remapping the American Encounter with Surrealism (1920-1960): Affinities and Resistance.

Rainer Emig is Professor of British Literature at Regensburg University. His main areas of interest are 19th- and 20th-century British literature and culture. Among his publications are the monographs Modernism in Poetry (1995), W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics (1999), Krieg als Metapher im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (2001), and the edited collections Stereotypes in Contemporary Anglo-German Relations (2000), Ulysses (New Casebooks 2003), and the forthcoming Hybrid Humour: Comedy in Transcultural Perspectives (with Graeme Dunphy). A recently completed project takes him into the 17th century, however, where he identifies the emergence of eccentricity as a phenomenon that has been shaping British culture to the present day. Its outcome should appear as Eccentricity: British Culture from the Margins in 2007. Further book-length projectsdeal with Literary Masculinities (from the Old English poem “The Wanderer” all the way to postmodernity) and Literary Treasure Hunts (from Beowulf to Harry Potter).

Ilit Ferber is a doctoral candidate at the philosophy department, Tel-Aviv University, and a 2004-05 Fulbright recipient in Princeton's German department, where she is currently conducting her research. She is finishing her dissertation, “The structure of melancholy and the way it is expressed in Walter Benjamin's writings,” which examines Benjamin's early texts and their relation to melancholy and mourning. She has presented papers on Kant, Benjamin and Brecht, and is a 2006-07 “Dan-David” post-doctoral recipient at Tel-Aviv University.

Peter B. Fordis a graduate student at Michigan State University.  His areas of interest include 18th and 19th century theories of the body, especially in relation to trends in science at the time.  He is currently in the beginning stages of writing his dissertation on chemical subjectivity in the “long” 19th century.

Dr.Michael John Kooy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick. He is the author of Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education (Palgrave, 2002) and articles on Charles Lamb, francophobia, historiography and contemporary British poetry. He is currently completing a study of Coleridge and war.

Christian La Cassagnère is Professor Emeritus at Université Lumière-Lyon 2. He is the author of La Mystique du Prometheus Unbound de Shelley (Lettres Modernes), Introduction à la poésie de Coleridge (Aubier Flammarion) and of articles on romantic, Victorian and modern poetry. He is also the editor of collections of essays on English Romanticism, of which the latest volumes are Byron, lectures du Don Juan (Didier Erudition), Wordsworth ou l'autre voix, and Keats ou le sortilège des mots (Presses Universitaires de Lyon).

Josiane Paccaud-Huguet is professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lyon2-Lumière. She has published books and articles on the English modernists, in particular Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence. She is also interested in the interaction between contemporary psychoanalysis and poetics. Her latest publications include “Psychoanalysis after Freud,” in Patricia Waugh's Literary Theory and Criticism, An Oxford Guide (Oxford University Press, 2006). She is currently working on a book on the modern “moment” (in Conrad, Mansfield, Joyce, Woolf) reconsidered in terms of the Lacanian sinthome, a language formation whose formula Lacan “found” in Joyce.

Mireille Ravassat is senior lecturer at the University of Valenciennes (France) where she teaches British literature, stylistics and translation from English into French. Her main subject of research is Shakespeare (her PhD thesis deals with Shakespeare and the oxymoron in the whole Shakespearean canon, Université Paris 10, 1993). She has contributed to academic books devoted to Shakespeare and to Le Dictionnaire Shakespeare (Ellipses: Paris, 2005). She is regularly involved in setting up international sessions at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and discourse analysis and is currently working on a book on the oxymoron in Shakespeare.

David J. Rosner teaches philosophy at Metropolitan College of New York.  He has published a number of essays on philosophy as a therapeutic enterprise, and has also written on the philosophy of education.  He is currently working on a book about the paradoxes of happiness.

Karl Verstrynge (Brugge, 1973) studied philosophy at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) where he promoted to a doctor in philosophy with a Ph.D. on Søren Kierkegaard. He published mainly on the work of the Danish philosopher, with regular attention for the themes of ethics, religion and communication in his thought. He is currently attached to the Higher Insitute for Philosophy at Leuven.

Karyn Wilson-Costa teaches at the Lycée Thiers in Marseille and is a PhD student at the University of Provence. She is wrting her thesis on Robert Burns.