1. Sondra Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at UCLA, teaches postcolonial theories and gendered social movements in Middle East/Africa. Gender Politics in Sudan is one of her numerous publications within Middle East Women's Studies. She has published on Edward Said in Al-Jadid.
2. Moustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, is co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2000).
3. Ali Behdad is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Dissolution (Duke University Press, 1994) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the U.S. (Duke University Press, 2005), as well as many articles on questions of postcolonialism, nationalism, immigration.
4. Anna Bernard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include post/colonial studies and comparative literature. She is writing her thesis on discourses of national belonging in Palestinian and Israeli literature.
5. Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University and the author of numerous books and essays. Many of her publications have been anthologized, reprinted, and/or translated into major Asian and European languages.
6. Kandice Chuh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she is affiliated with the American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program. She is the author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique (Duke University Press, 2003), and co-editor, with Karen Shimakawa, of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2001).
7. Sohail Daulatzai is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. His current projects include Darker Than Blue, which explores cinema, jazz, literature, sports and hip-hop culture within the diasporic radical imagination, and Born To Use Mics (with Michael Eric Dyson) on Nas' album Illmatic.
8. Rahul Gairola is a doctoral candidate in the joint Ph.D. program in English and Critical Theory at the University of Washington. He has published in a number of edited collections and scholarly journals, including Jouvert, Comparative Literature, and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.
9. B. P. Giri teaches postcolonial literature and theory at Dartmouth College. He is currently working on a project titled “Postcolonial Diaspora and Its Antinomies.”
10. Ketu H. Katrak, originally from Bombay, India, is Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies, and affiliated with the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Katrak specializes in Asian American, postcolonial, and diasporic literatures with a particular interest in the literary, dance, and other cultural productions of South Asian Americans in the diaspora.
11. Vinay Lal teaches history at UCLA. His recent books include The Future of Knowledge & Culture:□A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (Viking, 2005), and The History of History:□Politics & Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford, 2003).
12. Jinqi Ling is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature (Oxford, 1998); he is currently working on a book project that deals with transnationality, class, interracial relations, and surrealism in Asian American literature.
13. Lisa Lowe is professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, and affiliated with the Department of Ethnic Studies and Program in Critical Gender Studies. She has published books on Orientalism, immigration, and globalization, including Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996).
14. Thu-huong Nguyen-vo currently teaches issues of globalization and Vietnamese Studies at UCLA. She is working on a manuscript tentatively entitled The Real and the True: Commercial Sex, Cultural Representations, and the Governance of Neo-liberal Freedoms in Vietnam.
15. Vijay Prashad has just finished writing Darker Nations: the Rise and Fall of the Third World (New Press, 2005). He is the author of Karma of Brown Folk, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, among others, and teaches at Trinity College, Connecticut.
16. E. San Juan, Jr. heads the Philippines Cultural Studies Center at Storrs, Connecticut, and also sits on the Board of Directors of the Philippine Forum, New York City. He was recently visiting professor of literature and cultural studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Fulbright professor of American Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His most recent book is Working Through the Contradictions (Bucknell University Press, 2004).
17. Te-hsing Shan, former President of the English and American Literature Association, ROC, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. His translation of Said's Power, Politics, and Culture has been published in Taiwan and is forthcoming in Mainland China.
18. Henry Yu is an associate professor of history and Asian American Studies at UCLA and an associate professor of history at University of British Columbia. He is the author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2001) and is currently working on a book entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes.