Naomi Segal is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She is the author of
The Banal Object (1981),
The Unintended Reader (1986),
Narcissus and Echo: Women in the French Recit (1988),
The Adulteress's Child (1992) and
Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy and is the co-editor of
Freud in Exile and
Scarlett Letters (1997).
Mandy Merck teaches on the Sexual Dissidence MA programme at the University of Sussex. The former series editor of Channel Four Television's 'Out on Tuesday', she is the author of Perversions: Deviant Readings (1993) and After Diana (1998). Her next book is In Your Face: Essays on the Representation of Sex.
Elizabeth Wright is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984), Postmodern Brecht: A RePresentation (1989), and the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (1992). Her newer books are Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal (1998), Speaking Desires Can be Dangerous: Psychoanalysis, Language and Literary Theory (1999) and The Zizek Reader, co-edited with Edmond Wright (1999).