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Hélène Aji is Full Professor of American and Modernist Literature at the Université du Maine (France). 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 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 in French.

Caroline Bertonèche graduated from the University of Oxford in British Romantic Studies and has just completed a doctoral thesis on the workings of poetic influence in John Keats's art and life at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. Her research and publications include works on the Keatsian pre-posthumous myth, on the poet-painter relationship between Keats and Joseph Severn, on Keats's pictorial and epitaphic inheritance as well as on the combined influences of Romantic medicine and poetry.

Nicolas Pierre Boileau is completing his PhD on Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Janet Frame’s An Autobiography, and is a teaching assistant at the University of Rennes 2. He has published an article on the relation between Anaïs Nin’s diary and Freud’s theory, and several papers will shortly be published, including an article on the representation of sexual intercourse in Sylvia Plath’s and Janet Frame’s autobiographies, an article on autobiography and gender criticism and an article on how Janet Frame defines herself as the other.

Antoine Cazé is Professor of American literature at the University of Orléans, France. He is the author of a monograph on John Ashbery (John Ashbery: A contre-voix de l'Amérique, Paris, Belin, Voix Américaines, 2000) and of numerous critical articles on American poets as well as essays on poetics. He is currently preparing a biography of H. D. and a bilingual anthology of American poetry to be published in La Pléiade/Gallimard in 2008. He has also published translations of poems by Li-Young Lee, Emily Dickinson, John Ashbery and Andrew Zawacki.

Dominique Delmaire is associate professor in the department of English at Lyon 2 University where he teaches second-year and master's classes on Caribbean poetry (James Berry, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott in particular). The author of L'Ascèse de l'écriture dans la poésie de George Mackay Brown (1999), he has published mostly on Scottish poetry, from Robert Burns to Norman MacCaig.

Sébastien Ducasse was educated at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse. After his BA, he spent two years in Cambridge, England where he did a Master in English History, and a DEA in Elizabethan Literature. He is a teacher of English in Roissy en Brie (77) and a PhD student at the Université du Maine (France) under the supervision of Prof. Hélène Aji. His dissertation topic is “Anne Carson and Lyn Hejinian: Poetics of Autobiography”.

Vincent Dussol is Associate Professor of American literature at the University of Montpellier. His field is poetry. He has translated American poets, among whom Ray DiPalma, Ed Dorn, Fanny Howe, Charles Olson. Next on his translating agenda is Thomas McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend, a 20th-century epic of the Great Plains.

Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, and author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama. Recent books include Shakespeare: the histories (2000); Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth (2001), Visual Shakespeare: essays in film and television (2002) and Textual Shakespeare: Writing and the Word (2003).He is also a creative writer whose novel The Prince of Denmark was published in 2002, and whose poetry collection Craeft (2002) was awarded a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Current projects include Shakespeare and the Middle East; Shakespeare and religion; and the representation of Christ in literature and film. Graham Holderness is a Fellow of the English Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Kristen Leatherwood currently teaches Composition and Rhetoric at Bob Jones University and is pursing her M.A. in English Language and Literature. She plans to pursue further graduate study with an emphasis in modern literature after completing her M.A. in 2008.

Marie-Christine Lemardeley is Full Professor of American Literature at the Universtiy of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and head of the English Department. With Prof. André Topia she is the coordinator of "Vortex", a research center dedicated to the study of 19th to 21st British and American literature and arts. Her main area of interests are contemporary American poetry (Adrienne Rich : Cartographies du silence PU Lyon, 1990, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton), short fiction (Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel) and autobiographical writing (Paul Auster,  Lyn Hejinian). She is also the author of three books on John Steinbeck.

Laure de Nervaux is currently completing a PhD dissertation at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle entitled Beyond images: a study of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath ou la traversée de l'image). Her research bears on poetry, autobiography and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Laure de Nervaux is a Fulbright scholar.