Derek Attridge

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York (UK).

His publications include: Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (Cambridge, 1974), The Rhythms of English Poetry (Longman, 1982), Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Cornell and Methuen, 1988; reissued by Routledge, 2004), Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1995), and Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge, 2000). He is the co-author of Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (Routledge, 2003) and is also the editor or co-editor of Post-structuralist Joyce (Cambridge, 1984), Post-structuralism and the Question of History (Cambridge, 1987), The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature (Manchester and Routledge, 1987), The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge, 1990; second edition, 2004), Acts of Literature by Jacques Derrida (Routledge, 1992), Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1970-1995 (Cambridge, 1998), and Semicolonial Joyce (Cambridge, 2000). Publications appearing in 2004 included The Singularity of Literature (Routledge), which won the 2006 ESSE Book Award, J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (Chicago and Natal), and, as editor, James Joyce's 'Ulysses': A Casebook (Oxford). Forthcoming in 2007 is How to Read Joyce (Granta).

Among his research interests are South African literature, Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory, and the performance of poetry.

Brian Boyd

Brian Boyd is Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland (NZ).

Brian Boyd is the author of the definitive biography of Nabokov, published by Princeton University Press in two volumes: Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). His publications include: Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985), Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (1999), Presents of the past : literature in English before 1900 (1998). He is the editor and co-editor of Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings (2000), Words that count : essays on early modern authorship in honor of MacDonald P. Jackson (2004)

Among his research interests are narrative, evolution and cognition, the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov), literary theory, Homer, Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Spiegelman, science and literature, play, laughter and literature and Popper and the philosophy of science. .