Loren-Paul Caplin, screenwriter, director, playwright, composer-lyricist; feature film writing credits include The Lucky Ones and History of the World in 8 Minutes (writing and directing), Lost Angels (original story), and Battle in the Erogenous Zone; (cowriter/coproducer); his stage plays include The Presidents (co-author with Ron Nessen), Sunday's Child, and Gangs (book, lyrics, music); also teaches at Columbia and NYU.

Patricia L. Carlin, PhD, Princeton U.; author of Original Green (poems) and Shakespeare's Mortal Men; poetry published in Verse, Boulevard, and other publications; editor of Barrow Street; co-founder of Barrow Street Press; recipient of New School Distinguished Teaching Award; has taught at Princeton and Vassar.

Noëlle Carruggi, PhD, NYU; former director of French Studies, Northeast Modern Language Association; organizer of multicultural poetry readings; publications include Marguerite Duras: Une expérience intérieure, scholarly articles in Francographies, and poetry in Les Cahiers de l'Alba; forthcoming book: Maryse Condé: Rébellion et transgressions.

Meg Chang, EdD, Columbia U.; LCAT, NCC, ADTR; certif. Psychosynthesis therapist; certif. Kinetic Awareness teacher; trained in Mindfulness-based stress reduction at Center for Mindfulness in Medicine (U. Mass.); MBSR consultant at Center for Comprehensive Care, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital (NYC); author of articles about dance therapy interventions and intercultural issues in creative arts therapies.

Frances Chiu, PhD, Oxford U.; edited Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville and Sheridan Le Fanu's The Rose and the Key (Valancourt Books); articles published in 18th-Century Life, Notes and Queries, and Romanticism on the Net.

Natasha Chuk, MA in Media Studies; independent curator, media critic, and educator whose work explores experimental narratives, hybrid forms, and liminal space in works of art; co-founder of Unnamed Artists, a collaborative arts group that produces film, video, and audio projects; contributing editor to furtherfield.org, an online environment in which networked, digital, interactive, and collaborative works of art are shared and critiqued.

Celesti Colds Fechter, PhD, The New School for Social Research; psychologist; assistant dean for Academic Affairs, The New School; current research focuses on the link between implicit attitudes and differential judgments of similarly qualified employment candidates.

Scott Cotenoff, JD, Boston U. School of Law; former civil rights attorney with two decades of legal, public health, and nonprofit management and board experience; has managed organizations and developed programs in both the nonprofit and public sectors.

Susan Cottle, MFA, NY Acad. of Art; painter; has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad; adjunct assistant professor of art at St. John's U.; has also taught at NY Acad. of Art and Montserrat College of Art (Viterbo, Italy); Annenberg Resident Artist in NYC public schools; recent mural commission for P.S. 167, Brooklyn.