Sandra Braman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is a Professor in the Department of Communication and has been studying the macro-level effects of the use of new information technologies and their policy implications since the mid-1980s. Her current research includes Change of State: An Introduction to Information Policy (in press, MIT Press) and the edited volumes Communication Researchers and Policy-makers (2003, MIT Press), The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (2004, Palgrave Macmillan) and The Meta-technologies of Information: Biotechnology and Communication (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

Lane Hall (MFA, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a multi-media artist and writer who currently teaches Digital Arts and Culture within the English Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he is a full professor. Within book, video, and web formats he works with relationships between image and text and how meaning is made through narrative structures. His site-specific installation work, created collaboratively with artist Lisa Moline, often focuses upon animal subjects that occupy ambivalent places in culture: insects, reptiles, micro-life and vermin. These installations have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The Milwaukee Art Museum, the Block Museum at Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is currently working on various scientific visualization projects in collaboration with Dr. Rudi Strickler of UWM's Water Institute as well as pursuing narratives about heroic and quotidian memory within his ongoing project titled "Memory Palaces."

Thomas Malaby (Ph.D., Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and a member of the Modern Studies faculty. He has published articles and essays on practice theory, risk, mortality, and history and is author of Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City (University of Illinois Press, 2003). His principal research interest is in the relationships among modernity, games and indeterminacy.

James Mileham (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. His specialty is Nineteenth-Century French literature, and, since 1995, he has maintained, for the Année Balzacienne, a bibliography on Balzac studies in the U.S.A. (http://www.uwm.edu/People/jmile/) His film courses deal with classic French films, and with French-American cultural differences on questions such as money, esthetics, child-rearing and personal relationships.

Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature. Among her publications are the critical study Politics of the Visible: Writing Women, Culture, and Fascism (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and the edited volume Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), as well as articles on colonial discourses in Italian Literature and film. She is currently working on a book-length study that examines cultural critiques of "criminality" and the engendering of civil culture as articulated in literature, documentary and narrative film, media, and theory.

Peter Sands Sands is associate professor English at UWM. His current research focuses on law and utopianism in film and literature. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in computers and composition, American literature, Science Fiction/Utopia, and writing. He has published articles in Kairos, Works and Days, Utopian Studies, and elsewhere, and is co-editor of Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities (Erlbaum, 2003). Dr. Sands is the founding editor of H-Utopia, part of the Humanities and Social Sciences Online network.

Jian Xu (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an assistant professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. His current research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema. He has published in such journals as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, positions: east asia cultures critique, and The Journal of Asian Studies. Dr. Xu teaches Chinese Cinema, Literature and Cultural Experience, and courses on Film and Literature.