LOUIS ARMAND is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. He is the editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern UP, 2006). His authored books include Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology (Karolinum, 2003); Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (Karolinum, 2005); and Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (Litteraria Pragensia, 2005).

VALÉRIE BÉNÉJAM has been working at the University of Nantes (France) as a Maître de Conférences in English Literature since 1997. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she wrote her PhD under the supervision of Jean-Michel Rabaté at the University of Burgundy in Dijon ("Cherchez la Femme" dans Ulysses: conductions, reflets et réfractions de Molly Bloom). She has written many articles about Joyce's work, which have appeared in European Joyce Studies, in various French journals (Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, Tropismes, etc.) or have been published online (Genetic Joyce Studies, Hypermedia Joyce Studies). She is currently writing a book about Ulysses, tentatively entitled All About Molly. Her current research investigates the connections between Joyce and Flaubert, as well as the rôle of theatre and playwriting in Joyce's fiction. (valerie.benejam @ univ-nantes.fr)

ALEXANDRA DUMITRESCU is a Junior lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, since 1999. Her research is focused on exploring the line forces of metamodernism in theory. dumitrescualec@yahoo.co.uk Alexandra Dumitrescu is also author of several articles on various topics – from Romantic, modern and contemporary authors to American Studies, from feminism and postcolonialism to artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind – of a book translation and co-author of a book. 'Bootstrapping Finnegand Wake in Search for Truth' is a part of a larger attempt to explore the potential of the bootstrapping concept for theory and text interpretation

IAN GUNN co-founded the Split Pea Press in 1987 and is currently attached to the School of Arts Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent Joyce publication is James Joyce's Dublin, A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses with Clive Hart and Harald Beck published in 2004.

JIM LEBLANC is Head of Database Management Services at the Cornell University Library. In addition to several short pieces on Joyce and on library technical services, he has written on Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Alberto Moravia, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Beatles. In 2005, he chaired the host committee for the North American James Joyce Conference, "Return to Ithaca."

LAURENT MILESI teaches 20th-Century American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University and is a member of the Joyce ITEM-CNRS Research Group in Paris. He wrote numerous essays on Joyce and related aspects of modernism, 19th- and 20th-century (American) poetry, postmodernism and poststructuralism (especially Derrida). His edited collection, James Joyce and the Difference of Language, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003, and hs translation, together with Stefan Herbrechter, of Jacques Derrida's H.C. pour la vie, c'est a dire... is forthcoming at Stanford University Press. He is currently completing two monographs, on Jacques Derrida (in French) and on postmodernism (Post-Effects: Literature, Theory and the Future Perfect).

ALAN ROUGHLEY is a Canadian who is an Associate Professor of English at Liverpool Hope University and the acting director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, which he and fellow Canadian Patrick McDonagh created for Liana Burgess. He has written two books on James Joyce and numerous articles on a variety of literary writers and topics. Before taking up his post in Liverpool he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of New England in Australia where he was involved in theatre as a director and actor. His current research interests are James Joyce, Jacques Derrida and Anthony Burgess. Roughley also writes fiction and plays classical guitar. He is the author of Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (UPF, 1999)

BRIAN RICHARDSON teaches in the English Department of the University of Maryland. He is the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative (1997) and Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming). His articles on Joyce's narratives and the narratives of literary history have appeared in ELH, Comparative Literature Studes, and the Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory.

MARK WOLLAEGER, Mark Wollaeger is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism, editor of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook, and coeditor of Joyce and the Subject of History. His latest book, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900-1945, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in December 2006.

MARK WRIGHT is a researcher at Edinburgh University's School of Informatics and Research Fellow in Virtual Environments for the Arts at Edinburgh College of Art. His work concerns the cross disciplinary development of new forms of media with a particular interest in narrative and urban spaces.