Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of foreign languages and literatures at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Other contributors include Edith Benkov, Tom Conley, Phillippe Desan, Andrea Frisch, George Hoffmann, Virginia Krause, Reinier Leushuis, Eric MacPhail, John O'Brien, Todd Reeser, Richard Regosin, Marc Schachter, David Sedley, and Jacob Vance.