The Editors : Marc Maufort, the editor, teaches English, American and postcolonial literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He is the author of Songs of American Experience : The Vision of O'Neill and Melville (Peter Lang, 1990) and the editor of Staging Difference : Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (Peter Lang, 1995). Franca Bellarsi, the associate editor, is an assistant in English and American literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).
She has contributed several articles on the Beat Generation writers. Her affinity for theatre partly derives from her interest in American performance poetry.