Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, author of Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography, and editor of The New Philology. Andreas Kablitz is a professor of Romance Philology and head of the Romanisches Seminar of the Philosophische FakultAt of the UniversitAt zu KAln. Alison Calhoun is currently pursuing her doctorate in French Literature at the Johns Hopkins University and in 2006--2007 was the Louis Marin Fellow at the Acole Normale SupA(c)rieure (Ulm) in Paris.