ROBERT STAM is University Professor at New York University. Among his many publications are François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation (2006); Literature through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation (2005); Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Adaptation (2005); Companion to Literature and Film (2004); Film Theory: An Introduction (2000); Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997); and with Ella Shohat, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (1994), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media (2000), and Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (2007). He has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Grants, and fellowships at Bellagio and at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton. He has taught in France, Tunisia, Brazil, and Abu Dhabi. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukranian, Estonian, and Serbo-Croation.
ELLA SHOHAT is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Among her many publications are Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (2006); Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (1989, 2010); Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives: les juifs orientaux en Israel, 1988; 2006); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (1998); Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (coedited, 1997); and with Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (1994), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media (2003), and Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (2007). She has also co-edited a number of special issues for the journal Social Text, including “Edward Said: A Memorial Issue,” “Palestine in a Transnational Context,” and “911–A Public Emergency?” Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including: French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, German, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, and Italian. Shohat has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including: Social Text, Critique, Meridians, and Interventions. She is a recipient of such fellowships as Rockefeller and the Society for Humanities at Cornell University, where she also taught at the School of Criticism and Theory. In 2010, she was awarded a Fulbright research/lectureship at the University of São Paulo.