Christopher Ames is Vice President of Academic Affairs at Shepherd University. He is the author of The Life of the Party: Festive Vision in Modern Fiction (1991, reprinted 2010) and Movies about the Movies: Hollywood Reflected (1997). He has published articles on literary modernism, the Hollywood novel, and film.

Gregg Bachman teaches cinema studies and screenwriting in the Communication Department at the University of Tampa. In addition to Woody Allen, Dr. Bachman, the co-editor of the volume American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices, has written on such diverse topics as westerns and silent movie audiences.

Brian Bergen-Aurand teaches cinema at Nanyang Technological University, where he specializes in film, ethics, and embodiment. His recent work has appeared in Information Ethics, Intercultural Studies, and New Review of Film and Television Studies, including articles on Antonioni, Almodóvar, and Fassbinder. Currently, he is writing on Chaplin and film ethics.

Richard A. Blake, S.J., is Co-director of the film studies program at Boston College. His books include Woody Allen Profane and Sacred and Street Smart: the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese and Lee. He was the regular film reviewer for America magazine for 35 years.

William Brigham, M.A., M.S.W., has taught film studies at various institutions of higher education in California and is the author of published essays on family in the films of Woody Allen, depictions of homelessness in American films, and the rage of African American filmmakers.

Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at McMaster University, Canada. Her research interests are Kafka in his time and contemporary popular culture, German-Jewish Studies, and Israel Studies: the literature of Israel and Palestine. She is the author of Kafka and Cultural Zionism. Dates in Palestine (2007).

Mark T. Conard is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He is the co-editor of The Simpsons and Philosophy, and Woody Allen and Philosophy; he is editor of The Philosophy of Film Noir, The Philosophy of Neo-Noir, The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers, and The Philosophy of Spike Lee.

Renée R. Curry, Ph.D., English, is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University Monterey Bay. She is the editor of Perspectives on Woody Allen; editor of States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence, and Social Change and White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath and Whiteness.

David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of Phenomenology Explained (forthcoming), Sartre Explained (2008), Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (2003), and Freedom as a Value (1988).

Menachem Feuer currently teaches in the Jewish Studies Department at the University of Waterloo. He has published essays and book reviews on philosophy, literature, and Jewish studies in several peer-reviewed journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Shofar, MELUS, German Studies Review, International Studies in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Culture, Ctheory, and Cinemaction.

Katherine Fusco is a Senior Lecturer in English and Assistant Director of the Writing Studio at Vanderbilt University. She has published essays on celebrity and cruelty in contemporary film, D.W. Griffith’s adaptation of Frank Norris, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her book project is tentatively titled “Efficiency Aesthetics: Time, Narrative, and Modernity in Silent Film and US Naturalist Literature, 1895–1915.”

Colleen Glenn is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation deals with Jimmy Stewart’s post-World War II films as representations of war trauma. A portion of her work on Stewart will be published in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Glenn is currently working on an edited collection with Rebecca Bell-Metereau titled Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering.

J. Andrew Gothard earned his BA and MA in English from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His most recent publication, “ ‘Your Immediate Superior in Madness’: Orton’s What the Butler Saw and Foucault’s Madness and Civilization,” is in Text and Presentation. His research focuses on twentieth-century British and Irish literature with particular interests in modernism, postcolonialism, and working class studies.

William Hutchings is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: A Reference Guide (2005), two books about David Storey, and numerous articles on James Joyce, Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Anthony Burgess, Woody Allen, and others.

Claire Sisco King is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University, where she also teaches in the Film Studies Program. She is the author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema. Her work has also been published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Christopher J. Knight is a Professor of English at the University of Montana. His most recent book is Omissions Are Not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida (2010).

Sander Lee is a Professor of Philosophy at Keene State College Keene, New Hampshire. He is the author of Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed: Anguish, God and Existentialism (2002) and numerous additional essays. In 2006, he won the Keene State College Faculty Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship.

Cynthia Lucia is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Rider University. She is author of Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film and co-editor of the four-volume Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film. Among her recent essays are those appearing in Film and Sexual Politics: A Critical Reader and Authorship in Film Adaptation.

John Douglas Macready is a doctoral student in philosophy and adjunct instructor at the University of Dallas, where he is focusing his research on the concept of human dignity in the work of Hannah Arendt. He has published reviews and articles in Film-Philosophy, Borderlands, Purlieu: A Philosophical Journal, and Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

Gilles Menegaldo is a full Professor of American Literature and Film Studies at the University of Poitiers. He has co-written a book on Dracula, published many articles on Hollywood genres and edited collections of essays on Frankenstein, H.P. Lovecraft, R.L. Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle, Jacques Tourneur, film and history, crime fiction, and horror films.

Patrick Murray is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is author of Marx’s Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988) and editor of Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present (1997).

Monica Osborne teaches at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, where she was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish American Literature. She has written for Tikkun, The New Republic, Religion and Literature, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Shofar, Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, and Jewcy.com. She teaches courses on Jewish literature, Holocaust Studies, post-World War II German film, and Midrash in a modern context.

Stephen Papson is a Professor of Sociology teaching in the Film and Representation Studies Program at St. Lawrence University. He has co-authored three books: Sign Wars (1996), Nike Culture (1998), and Landscapes of Capital (2011). He teaches courses in film theory and Australian cinema and has recently written on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.

Robert M. Polhemus is Joseph Atha Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Stanford University. He is the author of The Changing World of Anthony Trollope, Comic Faith, Erotic Faith, Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption and Women’s Quest for Authority, and the editor (with Roger Henkle) of Critical Reconstructions.

Joanna E. Rapf is a Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Periodically, she also teaches at Dartmouth College. Her books include Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography (1995), On the Waterfront (2003), and Interviews with Sidney Lumet (2005). With Andrew Horton, she co-edited the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy (2012).

Cecilia Sayad is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). She is the author of a book on Charlie Kaufman titled O jogo da reinvenção: Charlie Kaufman e o lugar do autor no cinema (2008), published in Brazil, and her essays have appeared in journals such as Framework and the Journal of Film and Video.

Jeanne A. Schuler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She has authored numerous articles on the history of modern philosophy and critical theory. She is working on a series of articles exploring Hegel’s most fundamental insights; the first of these appeared in History of Philosophy Quarterly.