ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. - WENDY WARING is Director of the Institute for Women's Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. - PAM STAVROPOULOS lectures in the Department of Politics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. - JOAN KIRKBY is an Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. She has published a book on Emily Dickinson in the Palgrave Women Writers Series, a major series of articles entitled 'The Lure of Abjeciton' on Australian culture using a Kristeven paradigm. She is currently working on a monograph 'Reading U.S. Culture'.