ROY BOYNE Professor of Sociology at Durham University UTE FENDLER currently working on Spanish travel literature of the eighteenth century ANGELA FLURY PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California MARION FRANK working on a research project aiming to establish a closer link between literary/ cultural studies and medicine/medical anthropology SYLVIE GAMBAUDO Lecturer in European Studies at University College Stockton JAN B. GORDON Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies URIKE HORSTMANN University of Würzburg, writing her doctoral thesis on the names in Spenser's the Faerie Queen ROLF HUGOSON Lecturer at the Center for Research and Debate on Cultural Policy, at the University College of Borås SILVIA MERGENTHAL Professor at the University of Konstanz LILIANA MIHUT Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science PAUL NIXON Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Teesside