PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales	Jacques Derrida	Intellectual Courage: An Interview by Thomas Assheuer - Jacques Derrida is Director d'Études,  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, and a Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His many books include Of Grammatology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) and Specters of Marx (New York and London: Routledge, 1994).
Konstanz University	Peter Krapp	Intellectual Courage: An Interview by Thomas Assheuer Peter Krapp is a doctoral candidate in the Programme in Theory of Literature and Communication at Konstanz University in Germany. He maintains humanities websites in Germany and the United States, and he has published on Derrida and hypertext  in The Oxford Literary Review and in the Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift feur Geistesgeschichte.
University of California, Irvine	J. Hillis Miller	'Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak' : An Interview by Wang Fengzhen and Shaobo Xie - J. Hillis MIller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His many books include Tropes, Parables and Performances: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), Illustrations (London: Reaktion Press, 1992) and (with Manuel Asensi) Black Holes (Cultural Memory in the Present) (California: Stanford University Press, 1999).
University of Calgary	Shaobo Xie	'Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak' : An Interview with J. Hillis Miller- Shaobo Xie teaches literary theory and English literature at the University of Calgary, Canada.  He has published on Shelley, Frye, Jameson, Bhabha, Derrida and Zhuang Zi.  Among his recent publications are 'The Maoist Complex in Fredric Jameson' and Resistant Cultural Politics (dikang de wenhua zhengzhixue).  He is currently working in collaboration with Wang Fengzhen on a book of interviews entitled Dialogues on Cultural Studies: Interviews with Contemporary Critics.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Wang Fengzhen	'Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak' : An Interview with J. Hillis Miller - Wang Fengzhen is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Foreign Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. He has published widely on critical theory and cultural studies, and is currently working in collaboration with Shaobo Xie on a book of interviews entitled Dialogues on Cultural Studies: Interviews with Contemporary Critics.
University of Sussex	Geoffrey Bennington	'Frontiers: Of Literature and Philosophy' - Geoffrey Bennington is Professor of French and Director of the Centre for Modern French Thought at the University of Sussex, UK (www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/frenchthought). His publications include Lyotard: Writing the Event (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988), Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction (London, Verso, 1994), Interrupting Derrida (London: Routledge, 2000) and La frontière I (Kant) (Paris: Galilée, 2000).
Brighton	Stephen Jarvis	'Belonging Without Belonging: Deconstruction, Literature and the Institution' -  Stephen Jarvis recently completed his Ph.D at the University of Sussex, England. He has written on Derrida, music, and culture for Angelaki, and is currently writing on the work of Maurice Blanchot and Joan Didion
Univesity of Portsmouth	Graham MacPhee	'Beautiful Knowledge, or, Reproducing the University Again? Walter Benjamin and the Institution of Knowledge' -  Graham MacPhee is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, England. His research interests are in philosophy, aesthetics and visual culture, and he has published a number of articles on the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. He is currently writing a book on the technologies of urban visual culture.
Cardiff University	Diane Elam	'Why Read?' - Diane Elam is Professor of English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Wales. She is author of Romancing the Postmodern (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms en abyme (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), and co-editor of Feminism Beside Itself (New York and London: Routledge, 1995). She is currently preparing a book called The Injustice of Truth: Notes Toward a Feminist Politics.
Pennsylvania State University	Henry Giroux	'Cultural Politics and the Crisis of the University' - Henry Giroux is Waterbury Chair in Secondary Education at Pennsylvania State University in the USA.  His publications include Teachers As Intellectuals (New York: Bergin and Garvey Press, 1988), Border Crossings (New York: Routledge, 1992), Disturbing Pleasures (New York and London: Routledge, 1994),  Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence & Youth (New York: Routledge, 1996), Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Ted Striphas	'Banality, Book Publishing, and the Everyday Life of Cultural Studies' - Ted Striphas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.  He recently edited a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies exploring the problematics and possibilities of institutionalization.  His dissertation investigates the changing cultural economy of books.
University of California	Samuel Weber	'The Future of the Humanities: Experimenting' - Samuel Weber is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Director of its Paris Programme in Critical Theory. He is the author of a number of books and articles on Balzac, Saussure, Lacan, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger and Derrida, including The Legend of Freud (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), Institution and Interpretation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) and Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media (California: Stanford University Press, 1996).
Bates College	David Kolb	'Hyper-Text as Subversive?' - David Kolb is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Bates College in the US. He is the author of The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and After (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture and Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990) and Socrates in the Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy (Eastgate Systems, 1994).
University of Southampton	Stevan Harnad	'Academic Publishing in the Online Era' - Stevan Harnad is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton, England. He is founder and editor of the paper journal of open peer commentary, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, as well as the founder and editor of the first peer-reviewed paperless journal, Psycoloquy (http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/). He is also the founder of the CogPrints Eprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He has published widely in books and journals including Nature, American Scientist, Psychological Science, American Psychologist and Information Society.
University of California, Berkeley	Hal Varian	'Academic Publishing in the Online Era' - Hal Varian is the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in the US. He is also a Professor in the Haas School of Business and a Professor in the Department of Economics and occupies the Class of 1944 University Professorship. He has published numerous papers in economic theory, econometrics, industrial organization, public finance, and the economics of information technology and is the co-author of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy (Harvard Business School Press,1998).
Washington University	Bob Parks	'Academic Publishing in the Online Era' - Bob Parks is Professor of Economics at Washington University in the US.  His research interests are finance, welfare economics, general equilibrium theory, and econometrics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Education, and Mathematical Social Sciences. He has maintained the Economics Working Paper archive since 1993.
University of Portsmouth	Simon Wortham	'RAElity' - Simon Wortham is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, England. His work has appeared in the journals New Literary History, Economy and Society and New Formations. He is the co-editor of the 'Authorizing Culture' edition of the journal Angelaki, and author of Rethinking the University: Leverage and Deconstruction (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999).