Andrew Von Hendy is Associate Professor of English at Boston College and the author of The Modern Construction of Myth (Indiana, 2002).
Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 15 more. His most recent work in philosophy comprises a trilogy entitled 'Philosophy at the Limit'. The three volumes are On Stories (Routledge, 2002), The God Who May Be (Indiana UP, 2001) andStrangers, Gods, and Monsters (Routledge, 2003).
Alan Lawson teaches in the Honors Program at Boston College. His book, A Commonwealth of Hope. The New Deal Response to Crisis will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006.
Susan Rita Ruel is a journalist who has published widely in newspapers and magazines and co-authored two books on the U.S. news business. A jazz fiddler whose trio performs regularly in New York City, she also has published short stories and poems in the Denver Quarterly, Ba Shiru, Reason magazine and elsewhere
Marilene Phipps is a painter and a poet who was born and grew up in Haiti. She has won fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, at Harvard's Bunting Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and Center for the Study of World Religions as well as a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is also a Grolier poetry prize winner. Her poetry manuscript "Crossroads and Unholy Water" won the 1999 Crab Orchard Review and was published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her poetry is anthologized in "Sisters of Caliban" and in "The Beacon Best of 1999"; it has also appeared in magazines such as Callaloo, Ploughshares and River Styx. Her short fiction was published in The Best American Short Stories 2003, was listed in The Best American Short Stories 2001 and also appeared, among others, in Transition magazine, Callaloo and Crab Orchard Review . She has recently completed a new collection of poems under the title “God, Love and the Leap of Frogs” and of which the poems “Dialogue” and “Chapel Space” are a part.
François-Xavier Lavenne is a PhD candidate at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He completed an MA in French and Italian Language and Literature and graduated in the History of Art at the Catholic University of Louvain. His doctoral research is entitled Les visages de Chronos. L'expérience du Temps dans l'œuvre de Céline (Chronos’ Faces. The Experience of Time in Céline’s novels).
Virginie Renard is a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Scientific Research Fund (FNRS). She holds an MA in German and English Language and Literature from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is currently preparing a PhD in English Literature at the Catholic University of Louvain. Her doctoral research, entitled The Great War and Postmodern Memory, examines contemporary British novels that re-imagine the First World War.
Francois Tollet holds a Masters Degree in Romance Languages, a Diploma of Complementary Studies in Communication and a Post-Master Degree in Development Studies. He has joined the Research Group of the "Centre deRecherche sur l'Imaginaire" of the Catholic University of Louvain,Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) in the interdisciplinary project "Heroisationand Identity Quest in Occident". He is now working for the Minister o Higher Education, International Relations and Research of the French Communityof Belgium.
Mary Joe Hughes is Adjunct Professor of the Humanities at Boston College. She is at work on a manuscript on patterns of thought in contemporary culture and the arts.
Thomas Epstein teaches in the Honors Program and Slavic Department at Boston College. His most recent articles, biographical essays on the poets Daniil Kharms and Ivan Zhdanov, will be published in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography in 2006. He is currently at work on a book-length manuscript, entitled Sacralizing the Profane, about the Leningrad samizdat culture of the 1970s and 80s.
Anne Davenport teaches the Humanities at Boston College. She has published articles on scholastic philosophy, literary criticism and the history of science. She has published a book on medieval theories of the infinite (Measure of a Different Greatness, Brill, 1999) and a translation of French phenomenology (Jean Louis Chretien, The Call and the Response, Fordham U. Press, 2004). Her next article on Descartes will appear in Descartes and Cartesianism, Nathan D. Smith and Jason P. Taylor, eds., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.