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W.J.T. Mitchell teaches literature and art history at the University of Chicago, and is editor of Critical Inquiry. His most recent book, Picture Theory, won the College Art Association's Morey Prize for Art History in 1996, and the University of Chicago Press's Laing Prize for overall distinction in 1997. He is currently completing a new project, The Last Dinosaur Book, or the Totem of Modern Culture, forthcoming from Chicago in 1998.Orrin N.C. Wang (Volume Editor) teaches in the Department of English and the Program of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written articles on British romanticism, eighteenth-century literature, critical theory, and video; he is also the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings In Romanticism and Theory (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996). He is the general co-editor of the Romantic Circles Praxis Series, and is currently working on the significance of romanticism in an era of local knowledge.
Rita Raley (Assistant Volume Editor; Technical Editor) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is completing a dissertation on global English and the academy.
