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Idelber Avelar teaches Latin American Literature and Critical Theory at Tulane University. He is the author of The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Duke UP, 1999) and of numerous journal articles on contemporary Latin American narrative. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled A Genealogy of Latin Americanism: An Essay on the Disciplinary Uses of Identity.

Richard J. Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Recent publications include the edited volumes Gender and Fascism in Modern France (Dartmouth, UPNE 1997) and Facism’s Return: Scandal Revision and Ideology Since 1980 (U Nebraska Press, 1998).

Paul A. Harris is an Associate Editor of SubStance, teaches interdisciplinary courses in the English Department at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), and is completing a manuscript on Bergson and science.

Philip Kuberski teaches at Wake Forest University and is the author of A Calculus of Ezra Pound, Chaosmos, and The Persistence of Memory. He has recently completed Yugen, a book-length essay on the experience of consciousness.

Rémy Lestienne is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris), and the current president of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST). A physicist, he is currently working on the mechanisms of coding information in the brain, at the Institut des Neurosciences, Paris. His books that have been translated into English are: The Children of Time (1995), and The Creative Power of Chance (1998).

Brian Rotman has a joint appointment at the Ohio State University in the Advanced Computer Center for Arts and Design and in the Division of Comparative Studies. He is currently teaching courses on technology and hominization. A collection of his essays, Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting, will be published in Fall 2000 by Stanford University Press.

Stephen Adam Schwartz teaches literature and theory in the Department of French at University College Dublin. He has published essays on Derrida, Mallarmé, Blanchot and others and is currently working on a study of the American reception of recent French philosophy.

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a research fellow in the Research Institue for Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Sydney. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge, 1998).

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