We offer our warmest thanks to Emily Apter and Mary Murrell, whose firm and thoughtful support was important to us at every stage, and to Hanne Winarsky who joined the project near the end. We are also immensely grateful to Amanda Irwin Wilkins, whose practical help has been invaluable. In fall 2002, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate on this volume at the Institute for Advanced Study; we thank those who made that stay possible. We are also grateful to the two anonymous readers for Princeton University Press, who made shrewd and welcome critical suggestions, and to the University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the subvention of this volume.
Individual acknowledgments accompany each essay.