JONATHAN ARAC

Jonathan Arac is Andrew Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective.  His work focuses on literature, culture, and politics since the later eighteenth century.  Recent publications include The Emergence of American  Literary Narrative (Harvard UP, 2005), and two forthcoming books: Impure Worlds:  Literature in the Age of the Novel (Fordham UP) and Against Americanistics.

STEVEN MARCUS

Steven Marcus, George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University, is a specialist in 19th-century literature and culture, with a strong interest in psychoanalysis. He is the author of over 200 publications; with Lionel Trilling, he was co-editor of Ernest Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Prof. Marcus's books include Dickens From Pickwick to Dombey; The Other Victorians; Engels, Manchester and the Working Class; Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis; and Medicine and Western Civilization.

LOUIS MENAND

Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books, including The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2002.  He was Contributing Editor of The New York Review of Books from 1994 to 2001 and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001.

GERALDINE MURPHY

Geraldine Murphy is a Professor of English and Deputy Dean of Humanities and Arts at The City College, CUNY.  She has published several essays on the New York intellectuals and discovered, edited and introduced an unfinished novel by Lionel Trilling, The Journey Abandoned (Columbia UP, 2008).

JOHN ROSENBERG

John D. Rosenberg is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.  The recipient of several awards, including Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has edited works by several Victorian writers and published books on Ruskin, Tennyson, and Carlyle.  His most recent work is Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature (Anthem Press, 2003).

GEORGE STADE

George Stade is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.   He is the author of a critical study on Robert Graves and three novels: Confessions of a Lady-Killer; Sex and Violence: A Love Story; and Love is War.  He is the Editor in Chief of Columbia Essays on Modern Writers (1964-76) and of European Writers (Scribners, 1983-1991).  His most recent publication is a collection of essays, Equipment for Living: Moderns, Monsters, Popsters, and Us (Pari Publishing, 2007). 

FRITZ STERN

Fritz Stern is a University Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  Five Germanys I Have Known (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006) is the most recent of his numerous books on German and European history.  He is the recipient of the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Western Germany and the Leo Baeck Medal, among other awards.  He served as University Provost of Columbia from 1980 to 1983.

MICHAEL WOOD

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature. He has written books on Luis Buñuel, Franz Kafka, Gabriel García Márquez, and Nabokov in addition to The Road to Delphi, America in the Movies, and Children of Silence. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (Cambridge UP, 2005) is his most recent book.