Andrew Teverson is a former Assistant Editor of The Literary Encyclopedia and now teaches at the University of Kingston. He has published essays on Salman Rushdie, Kasuo Ishiguro and Anish Kapoor. His monograph on Rushdie's work will be published Manchester University Press in 2006.

Boris Pil'niak is the pseudonym of Boris Andreevich Vogau, a Russian prose writer. born in 1894 who died in a prison camp 1938. He was the author of the novel Golyi god [The Naked Year] and the novellas Povest’ nepogashennoi luny [Tale of the Unextinguished Moon] and Krasnoe derevo [Mahogany].

Brian Chikwava is a Zimbabwean writer whose novel Seventh Street Alchemy (Harare: Weaver Press, 2003) won the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing. He is currently a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia and working on a novel and a short story collection from which "Dancing for the Jazz Goblin" is taken.

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is a regular writer about conflict and change in contemporary Africa and the author of, amongst others, African Literature in Defence of History (African Renaissance Press, 2001). Educated at the universities of Ibadan and Lancaster, and currently divides his time between England and Sénégal. His Biafra Revisited, will be published by the African Renaissance Press in May 2006.

Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia. He is spearheading the NINES initiative (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (http://www.nines.org), which makes its first release in December 2005. Yale University Press will publish his new book, The Scholar's Art: Literature in a Managed World, in Spring 2006.

Kelsey Wood has taught philosophy at Boston University, Penn State, and the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Troubling Play: Meaning and Entity in Plato's Parmenides(State University of New York Press, 2005) and is currently writing a book on the role of paradox in Plato's Eleatic dialogues.

Neil Forsyth is Professor of English at the Université de Lausanne. His The Satanic Epic (Princeton and Oxford, 2003) won the James Holly Hanford Prize of the Milton Society of America in 2004.

Maggie Malone is a writer and independent scholar who co-edited with Neil Cornwell the 'New Casebook' on "The Turn of the Screw"and "What Maisie Knew" (Macmillan, 1998). She has also published on Austen and on Shakespeare in Essays in Poetics.

Michael Pursglove lectured in Russian in four UK universities, most recently the University of Bath. He has published numerous articles and translations in the field of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature. His most recent book is an edition of Arzamas-16 : Soviet scientists in the nuclear age by Veniamin Tsukerman and Zinaida Azarkh (Bramcote Press, 1998).

Ranka Primorac studied at the universities of Zagreb, Zimbabwe and Nottingham Trent, and teaches in the African Studies Department of New York University's London branch. She co-edited Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (Harare: Weaver Press 2005) and her The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe will be published by I. B. Tauris in 2006.