John S. is a professor at the Université de Lorraine in France and holds degrees from the universities of Illinois, Ball State, and the Sorbonne in Paris. In addition to his many articles on Tennessee Williams are edited books that include Tennessee Williams and Europe (Rodopi, 2014) and New Selected Essays: Where I Live (New Directions, 2009). He is also the author of the monographs Homo Americanus:Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009) and Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
John , professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University, is the author of Melville & Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (University of Michigan Press, 2002) and Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of ‘Typee’ (University of Michigan Press, 2008), as well as over seventy articles on Herman Melville, nineteenth-century American literature and textual studies. In addition to A Companion to Melville Studies (Greenwood, 1983), he has edited Typee (Penguin, 1996; 2005), Melville’s Tales, Poems, and Other Writings (Modern Library, 2001), the MLA–CSE approved, electronic fluid-text edition Herman Melville’s Typee (University of Virginia Press, 2006), and (with Haskell Springer) the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick (Pearson, 2006). As former editor of the Melville Society (1990–2013), he founded Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is currently director of the Melville Electronic Library and is working on the third of his three-volume biography, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life (vols 1–2, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021).
Jean-Christophe is originally from Québec and obtained his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American and African American literature, comics and graphic novels, and archival research methods. He is the author of Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature (Columbia University Press, 2019), which won the MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize, the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize and the Waldo Gifford Leland Award from the Society of American Archivists. It was also shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize. He is co-editor, with Brent Hayes Edwards, of Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics, 2017), and editor of La vie est d’hommage (Éditions du Boréal, 2016), which gathers the original French writings of Jack Kerouac. He also translated into English two of J. Kerouac’s French manuscripts for the Library of America’s The Unknown Kerouac (2016). In 2023, Gallimard released his stand-alone edition of Sur le chemin, J. Kerouac’s longest French novel. He is currently completing an extensive study of J. Kerouac’s oeuvre that explores the writer’s practices as a bilingual novelist, translator and archivist.
Daniel is emeritus director of research at the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS, ENS, PSL). He has published extensively on James Joyce and literary theory, but he has also worked on Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous, painting, digital humanities and film theory. Most of his work is devoted to the reconstruction of the creative process of writers and artists, based on the traces that can be recovered from working documents. His latest book is Genetic Joyce: Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation (University Press of Florida, 2023).
Vanessa is professor of Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature at the École normale supérieure de Lyon and a member of the research laboratory Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (IHRIM). She is the president of the Societé d’études anglaises contemporaines (SEAC). Her research interests include the poetics of voice and silence, generic transformations, fragmentation and genetic criticism. She is the author of monographs on Julian Barnes, including Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer’s Archives (Bloomsbury, 2020), on B. S. Johnson, Ben Okri and Jonathan Coe. She is the editor or co-editor of fifteen collections of essays on contemporary British and postcolonial literature, and has edited volumes of interviews with writers, including Conversations with Ben Okri (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
Luc is emeritus professor of Narrative Theory and American Literature at the University of Antwerp. His books include Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination and Freedom (University of Georgia Press, 2013, with Steven Weisenburger), Handbook of Narrative Analysis (University of Nebraska Press, second edition 2019, with Bart Vervaeck) and Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and ‘V.’ (The Ohio State University Press, 2023, with John M. Krafft). He is currently working on his second crime novel.
Roger is a fine small press publisher and the managing editor of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal. Since 1993, he has published some 120 titles, including bibliographies, critical studies, memoirs, fiction, correspondence, artwork and ephemera, primarily by and about Henry Miller and his associates. Complete or near-complete collections of his output are held by Ohio State University, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Henry Miller Memorial Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. He is currently working on a bibliography of his publications.
John M. is professor emeritus of English at Miami University. He was a co-founder of the journal Pynchon Notes in 1979 and its co-editor and bibliographer until 2009. A series of essays coauthored with Luc Herman analysing the evolution of Thomas Pynchon’s V. from typescript to published novel culminated in their book Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and ‘V.’ (The Ohio State University Press, 2023).
Dirk is professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford, director of the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET) and of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is director of the MLA award-winning Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org), series editor of the Cambridge University Press series ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ and editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (University of Michigan Press, 2004), Modern Manuscripts (Bloomsbury, 2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Mark Nixon), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge University Press, 2015), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (Routledge, 2016), Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Write Cut Rewrite (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024, with Mark Nixon).
Robert has a PhD in literary studies, is an independent documentary filmmaker and has produced various radio features on Leonard Cohen for ABC Radio National in Australia. He worked as a creative producer and archivist for the Leonard Cohen Family Trust in Los Angeles from July 2017 to November 2023 and has been engaged in various creative projects for the Trust, including the major exhibition and catalogue for Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.