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Tom Conley
Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Co-Master of Kirkland House, Harvard University

With interests in early modern French literature, film and media studies, and the intersections of literature and graphic imagination, Tom Conley is the author of:  Cartographic Cinema (2006), The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (1997), The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing (1992), Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (1991) and co-editor of Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France (1996). His major translations include Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map, Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Marc Augé, In the Metro, and Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map.

Rey Chow
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and English at Brown University.

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and English at Brown University.  Her books include Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); Writing Diaspora (1993); Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (1995), winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association; Ethics after Idealism (1998); The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007). She has edited the collection Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000).

Catharine R. Stimpson
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University

Catharine Stimpson is University Professor and Dean of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science.  She was director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program, past president of the Modern Language Association, former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National Council for research on Women and the first director of the Women’s Center of Barnard College and of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers. Her many publications include the book Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces and the Library of America’s Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932.  She was the founding editor of Signs; Journal of Women in Culture and Society for the University of Chicago Press.

Michael Warner
Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, Professor of American Studies, Department of Engligh, Yale University

Michael Warner's work ranges across a number of topics and styles, from scholarship in early American literature and print culture, to more theoretical writing about publics and social movements, to introductory editions and anthologies, to journalism and nonacademic political writing.  His most recent books include Publics and Counterpublics and The Portable Walt Whitman.  He is also the author of The Letters of the Republic and the Trouble with Normal:  Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life.  He has edited two literary anthologies:  American Sermons (Library of America, 1999); and, with Myra Jehlen, The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (1997).  He is also the editor of Fear of a Queer Planet:  Queer Politics and Social Theory (1993); and, with Gerald Graff, The Origins of Literary Studies in America:  A Documentary Anthology (1988).