ANTONIO AGUILERA works at the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Barcelona, Spain EMILY APTER is Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA MONA BAKER is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK UPENDRA BAXI is Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, UK MOIRA INGHILLERI is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK LIAM KENNEDY is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland MARTIN MONTGOMERY is Reader in Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, UK STUART PRICE is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Production at De Montfort University, UK KEITH TESTER is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK MARIA TYMOCZKO is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusets Amherst, USA SIGRID WEIGEL is Director of Zentrum fur Literaturforschung (Berlin) and a Professor at TU Berlin, Germany