Hans Bertens is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on postmodernism and literary theory, including "The Idea of the Postmodern: A History" (1995) and "Literary Theory: The Basics" (2001).
Joseph Natoli teaches at the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He has written a cultural history of 1990s America with the volumes "Hauntings" (1994), "Speeding to the Millennium" (1998), and "Postmodern Journeys" (2000), and he is also author of "A Primer to Postmodernity" (1997).