JORGEN BRUHN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Vaxjoe University, Sweden SIGLIND BRUHN is a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities, USA, and the Sorbonne's Institute for the Aesthetics of Contemporary Arts, France CLAUS CLUEVER is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, USA AXEL ENGLUND is a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden HAJNAL KIRALY is a freelance film critic, presently translator at the Cardiff, UK, office of Thomson Reuters news agency SIGURD KVAERNDRUP is a researcher at the University of Vaxjoe, Sweden CHRISTINA LJUNGBERG is Adjunct Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, Switserland JUERGEN E. MUELLER is Professor and Chair of the Media Department at the University of Bayreuth, Germany AGNES PETH? is Associate Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania IRINA O. RAJEWSKY is Associate Professor of Italian and French Literature at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany VALERIE ROBILLARD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands HAKAN SANDGREN is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Comparative Literature at Kristianstad University College, Sweden KATALIN SANDOR is Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of Babe? Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania REGINA SCHOBER is a Doctoral Candidate in American Studies at Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany SAMI SJOEBERG is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland