SUBARMP CHATTARJI Reader and Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi, India W.D.EHRHART English and History Professor, the Haverford School, Philadelphia, USA H.BRUCE FRANKLIN John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University, USA JOHN HELLMANN Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA WALTER W.HOELBLING Professor of US Literature and Culture, University of Graz, Austria PHIL MELLING Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies, Department of American Studies, Swansea University, UK JON ROPER Professor and Head of the Department of American Studies, Swansea University, USA JONATHAN SCHELL The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent, and the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute.