Carla Freccero is professor of Literature, Women's Studies, and the History of Consciousness at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She specializes in early modern continental history and literature, feminist and queer theories, and U.S. popular culture. Her work includes: Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais(Cornell 1991); Premodern Sexualities; co-edited with Louise Fradenburg (Routledge 1996); and Popular Culture: An Introduction(NYU 1999).

David Lee Miller, best known to Renaissance scholars for The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (Princeton, 1988) and for his role as co-editor of The Production of English Renaissance Culture (Cornell, 1994), is currently Professor of English and, for three more months, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Professor Miller founded the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, and served as its first director from 1989-1994. His current book-in-progress centers on the themes of masculinity and sacrifice, which he approaches by way of the father-son relation in a range of texts from Virgil's Aeneid to Dickens's Dombey and Son. A portion of that work will appear in an essay entitled "The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images of Boys," scheduled for the Spring 2000 issue of Representations.