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Robert F. Barsky’s new book, Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugee Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country (Ashgate) and his new translation of Michel Meyer’s Le Philosophe et les passions (Penn State Press) were both published in November of this year. Forthcoming books include an intellectual biography of Zellig Harris, and The Chomsky Approach, both with MIT Press. Robert Barsky is a professor in the Département d’Etudes Littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Jacques Dubois is Professor Emeritus at the University of Liège, Belgium, specializing in the sociology of literature. He directs the Points-Lettres Collection at Seuil. His most recent publications include Le Roman policier ou la modernité (Nathan, 1996), Le roman célibataire. D’A rebours à Paludes (Corti, 1996) (with J.-P. Bertrand, M. Biron et J. Paque), Pour Albertine. Proust et le sens du social (Seuil, 1997), and Les Romanciers du réel (Seuil, 2000).

Jill Forbes is Professor of French at the University of London, Queen Mary College. Her research interests include the French cinema and contemporary French culture. She is the author of The Cinema in France: After the New Wave (Indiana UP), Les Enfants du paradis (BFI/Indiana UP), and, with Michael Kelly, French Cultural Studies (Oxford UP).

Jean-François Fourny teaches French at Ohio State University. He is the author of Introduction à la lecture de Georges Bataille, co-editor of Situating Sartre in Twentieth-Century Thought and Culture, and guest-editor or co-editor of special issues of journals on Bataille, Mitterrand, the Occupation, Foucault, French Women of the Belle Epoque, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Studies.

Gunter Gebauer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He has published on Wittgenstein, semantics, subjectivity, and hermeneutics, on archaeology and history, and on the social and psychological aspect of sports. His publications in English include Mimesis: Culture, Art, Society (with Christoph Wulf)(Berkeley: UC Press, 1995).

Niilo Kauppi, a former student of Pierre Bourdieu’s, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. He has held visiting posts at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Indiana University, and at Harvard. His most recent books are French Intellectual Nobility: Institutional [End Page 150] and Symbolic Transformations in the Post-Sartrian Era (SUNY, 1996), and The Politics of Embodiment: Power, Habits, and Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory (Peter Lang, 2000). He is one of the founders of Helsinki Forum, an association of European intellectuals.

Beate Krais is professor of Sociology at Darmstadt University of Technology. Her main research interests are in sociological theory, the sociology of education and science, and class and status in gender relations. She has conducted several international comparative studies on education and training, as well as on women in the professions.

Keith Reader is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of numerous books and articles on contemporary French culture, including monographs on Régis Debray and, most recently, on Robert Bresson. [End Page 151]