Dr Inger H. Dalsgaard is Associate Professor of American Studies, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Luc Herman is Professor of American Literature and Narrative Theory at the University of Antwerp.

Brian McHale is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction, Constructing Postmodernism, and The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole. His articles have appeared in such journals as Diacritics, Genre, Modern Language Quarterly, Narrative, New Literary History, Poetics Today, Style, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He is currently co-editing, with Len Platt, The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature.