Anbsp;middleweight amateur boxer, David Scott is a professor of French (textual and visual studies) at Trinity College in Dublin. He is the author of several books on semiotics, includingSemiologies of Travel from Gautier to Baudrillard;European Stamp Design: A Semiotic Approach; andPictorialist Poetics: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France. nbsp; Roger L. Conover is a writer, curator, and the executive editor of the MIT Press, where he publishes books on art, architecture, and cultural studies. He also is the former boxing commissioner for the state of Maine.