Elisabeth Bronfen is the author, most recently, of The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Misha Kavka has published variously on male hysteria, modernist feminism, and gendered subjectivity in film. Both Bronfen and Kavka teach in the Department of English at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Richard Hughes Seager is associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and is the author of The World's Parliament of Religions: The East-West Encounter, Chicago, 1893and Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World's Parliament of Religions.