Greg Bear
Greg Bear is curator of Special Collections at the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

Vance Bell
Vance Bell is the founder and editor-in-chief of Other Voices.

Christian Davenport
Christian Davenport is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as Director of the Comparative Politics Center. His primary research interests include political control (i.e., tolerance, negative sanctions/human rights violations, and accommodation), social movements, and racism. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Political and Research Quarterly, and Electoral Studies. His current research concerns the effect of international trade on repression and the contentious political behavior of the Black Panther Party, which is being supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Jonathan Eburne
Jonathan Eburne is a fourth-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dick Higgins
Until his death in October 1998, Dick Higgins was a composer, painter, translator and art theorist. Happenings, Fluxus, Intermedia, Something Else Press, were a few of the terms commonly associated with Dick Higgins and his work. Having once remarked: "I find I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts--visual, musical and literary," Dick Higgins coined the term "Intermedia" to cover work of his own that fell conceptually between these categories. As the founder of Something Else Press he published works by Alan Kaprow, Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Emmett Williams, and Ray Johnson among others. His forty-nine books include Poems Plain & Fancy (Station Hill Press) and A Book About Love & War & Death (Something Else). He edited and annotated Giordano Bruno's On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas (Willis, Locker & Owens) and was a recent recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Just before his passing Dick Higgins published two additional volumes: Merle Armitage and the Modern Book (David Godine) and Modernism Since Post-Modernism (San Diego State University Press). He made his home in upstate New York, and had recently been teaching courses in the History of Graphic Design at Lund University in Sweden.

Judith Hoffberg
Judith Hoffberg is a librarian, archivist, lecturer, a curator and art writer, and editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter on artist books, mail art, and Fluxus. She was the Art Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania from 1967 - 1969. Founder of the Art Libraries Society of North America and director of Umbrella Associates, she is also a publisher of several books of criticism about artist books and mail art, such as Buzz Spector's The Book Maker's Desire (Umbrella Editions, 1996) and Robert C. Morgan's Commentaries on the New Media Arts (1991).

Jason Kucsma
Jason Kucsma is a Master's candidate in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. His research interests lie primarily in the relationship of countercultures to mainstream mass culture. Currently he is preparing a thesis on the role zines play in contemporary punk culture -- bridging the gap between cultural rebellion and "real world" activism.

Stephen Küpper
Stephen Küpper, b. 1966, studied Russian and English language and literature at Bochum, Germany; Swansea, Great Britain; Berlin and Moscow. He works as assistant in the Department of Russian Literature at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He has published on contemporary Russian literature and art and has just completed his dissertation on "Auctorial Strategies in Moscow Conceptualism".

K.A. Laity
K. A. Laity, though never an English major, teaches Freshman English at the University of Connecticut while working on her doctorate in Medieval Studies and a dissertation on Old Irish, Old Norse and Old English hagiography. Unbeknownst to most of her colleagues, she also publishes the zine WOMBAT'S WORLD and has had stories and reviews appear in such places as Weird Times, Rictus, DreamForge, Horror-Wood, Millennium and Masters of Terror.

Michael Lumb
Michael Lumb, b. 1945 in Yorkshire England, studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and worked for BBC and Commercial Television and films in the late 1960s. He is now Course Leader of the M.A. course in Visual Practice at University College, Suffolk where he also teaches Alternative Practice Fine Art on the B.A. course. He is a curator and artist, working in Performance and installation, mostly in England and Eastern Europe. In 1998 he was awarded an M.Phil. from the University of East Anglia.

Amanda Macdonald
Amanda Macdonald teaches in the Department of French Studies and in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Her research interests move between semiotics and cultural studies. Current priorities include: Barthes, Francophone graphic novels, political media, and genre theory.

Susan Reilly
Susan Reilly holds an M.A. in English from Boston College and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of New Hampshire. She has worked as a contributor to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. Her current research interests include Coleridge's anti-slavery writings and the study of Romantic patronage.

Craig Saper
Craig Saper, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in film and popular culture studies, literary and cultural theory, experimental forms of literature and art, and postmodernist poetics. He has published a book on contemporary culture and media, Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention (Minnesota, 1996), and has completed another manuscript on the history of the society of the spectacle, and is currently working on a project which will serve as the first secondary literature on artist's multimedia magazines and assemblings. Since 1995 he has served on the film committee of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society.

Joshua Schuster
Josh Schuster holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and served as a key member of the University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House since its foundation in 1996. He now resides in Oakland, California and works as a journalist for the San Francisco-based weekly The Jewish Bulletin.

Thomas Vogler
Thomas A. Vogler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published on topics ranging from the eighteenth century to contemporary poetry. Most recently he has edited a collection of essays on Ron Silliman, Ron Silliman and the Alphabet, which includes an essay by him entitled "Reading Silliman Writing."

Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is currently ABD and serving as a Lecturer for Sophomore Literature at Texas Tech University while he completes his dissertation. The dissertation, "Culture, Theory, and Comix" focuses mainly on alternative comics as analyzed through various postmodern theories in a cultural studies context. His previous publications include, "Comics: A Tool of Subversion?" reprinted in Interrogating Popular Culture. Eds. Sean E. Anderson and Gregory J. Howard. Guilderland, NY: Harrow and Heston, 1998: 97-117 and "Comics in the Academy: A Bibliographical Essay", Interdisciplinary Humanities, Summer 1993: 29-36. Jeff has recently been appointed on the Editorial Board of the forthcoming International Journal of Comic Art.