Julie Rivlin is an Associate Professor at Connecticut College, where she theaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of
False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fiction (1996).
Michael Ryan is Professor of English at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, American Film, and Literary Theory. His books include Marxism and Deconstruction (1982), Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary American Film (with Douglas Kellner, 1986) and Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society (19890.