PETER DECHERNEY is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American and many articles on the Hollywood film industry, on the history of media regulation, and on fair use and academia, among other topics. In 2006, along with two colleagues, he successfully petitioned for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for media professors using clips for teaching. He is currently working on a new book on the history and future of Hollywood and copyright law.
JOANNA DEMERS is associate professor of musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. Her book Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity examines the history of confrontations between intellectual property regimes, musicians, and music consumers; the book won the 2006 Book of the Year award from the Popular Culture Association. A second book, Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music, will appear with Oxford in 2010. Professor Demers also freelances as a forensic musicologist, assessing the legal dimensions of clients' musical borrowings and appropriations.
CATHERINE L. FISK is the Chancellor's Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of California, Irvine. Professor Fisk is the author of a legal history of employee intellectual property, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930. She is now working on a book on attribution, human capital, and intellectual property in the twentieth-century employment relationship, an early installment of which was published in the Georgetown Law Journal. Professor Fisk was previously on the faculties of Duke University and the University of Southern California.
STANFORD G. GANN, jr. is the Literary Executor of the Estate of Gertrude Stein. A native of Baltimore, he is a principal with the law firm of Levin & Gann, P.A., where he primarily handles and litigates construction, collection, property boundary, and bankruptcy matters. Mr. Gann represents a wide range of clients, from financial institutions and developers to local corporations and individuals, and has lectured on mechanic's liens, collections, real estate, and many other subjects.
ELIZABETH TOWNSEND GARD is an associate professor, Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Intellectual Property Law and Culture, and Director of the Usable Past Copyright Project at Tulane University Law School. Her research areas include podcasting the traditional classroom; Second Life and virtual property; and unpublished works and the public domain. She is currently developing the DurationatorTM software to assist users in determining the copyright status of?any given work across multiple national legal regimes. She is also completing the manuscript for a book, The Making of the Great War Generation: A Comparative Biography.
W. RON GARD teaches American literature, theory, and writing at the University of New Orleans and is Associate Director for Legal and Cultural Theory on the Usable Past Copyright Project at Tulane Law School. His dissertation, "Bodies of Capital: Spatial Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction," provides a theory of how subjectivity arises at the intersection of physical bodies and material space, a performative negotiation bound up with the economic forces shaping the socio-spatial environment. He is currently exploring the racial implications of this theory through a reading of Colson Whitehead's novel Apex Hides the Hurt.
OLIVER GERLAND is associate professor of Theatre at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Having written A Freudian Poetics for Ibsen's Theatre: Repetition, Recollection and Paradox, he became interested in copyright during a sabbatical year in Oxford and is currently at work on a systematic account of Anglo-American theatre and copyright law. His publications have appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.
ERIC HAYOT is professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Asian?Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel and The Hypothetical Mandarin:Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain. His essays about online virtual worlds, co-written with Edward Wesp, have appeared in Postmodern Culture, Comparative Literature Studies, and Game Studies. His new project is on worldedness and modern literary history.
MARK A. FOWLER is a partner at Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, where he represents publishers, broadcasters, cablecasters, digital media clients, and advertising agencies in defamation, intellectual property, antitrust, and reporters' rights matters. In addition to his litigation practice, he counsels media clients on a variety of issues and assists them with intellectual property transactions. Formerly a professional editor and writer, he has appeared on TV and radio talk shows in connection with his nonfiction books for general audiences. He frequently lectures on copyright law, the First Amendment, and new legal issues affecting the digital media.
CELIA MARSHIK is associate professor of English at SUNY Stony Brook. Professor Marshik is the author of British Modernism and Censorship; her articles on G. B. Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall and others have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Yale Journal of Criticism. Her present work focuses on clothing in the literature and culture of the 1920s, but her abiding interest remains the intersection between literature and the governing bodies responsible for forming and enforcing the law. She has been an officer of the International Virginia Woolf Society since 2006.
MARK OSTEEN, professor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola University Maryland, is the author of The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet and American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture. He has edited two essay collections examining the economic and legal aspects of literature-The New Economic Criticism (with Martha Woodmansee) and The Question of the Gift-and several essays exploring the intersections between capitalism and originality. A veteran jazz musician, he has also edited a special double of issue of Genre called Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse.
MARY DE RACHEWILTZ has been for over twenty years the Curator of the Ezra Pound Archive in the Collection of American Literature at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She has translated Pound's Cantos into Italian as well as The Noh Plays, The Chinese Written Character, and Elektra. The author of several volumes of original poetry and of the memoir Discretions: Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher, she is still engaged in reading and re-reading Pound and his sources.
PAUL K. SAINT-AMOUR is associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and the National Humanities Center. His book The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination, won the MLA Prize for a First Book. From 2004-06, Professor Saint-Amour chaired an International James Joyce Foundation fact-finding panel about the permissions history and criteria of the Estate of James Joyce. He is currently at work on a book-length project entitled Archive, Bomb, Civilian: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War.
CAROL LOEB SHLOSS, professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of five books, most recently Lucia Joyce: To Dance at the Wake. She spent the 2007-08 academic year as the Ellen Andrews Wright Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center for the Humanities, where she was also awarded a Collaborative Research Grant to do further work on the unpublished letters of James Joyce. Professor Shloss is currently writing the second volume of a trilogy entitled Modernism's Daughters, which explores the lives of Lucia Joyce, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Anna Freud alongside problems of inheritance that modernism poses to succeeding generations.
JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on modern African, Latin-American, and Caribbean literatures, human rights, critical theory, and plagiarism. He is author of the René Wellek prize-winning book Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law, which explores the formal and ideological relations between the Bildungsroman's rise and the consolidation of human rights law. He is currently at work on New Word Orders, a study of the role of plagiarism and other forms of intellectual property theft in the development and globalization of the novel.
ROBERT SPOO is associate professor of Law at The University of Tulsa College of Law and has represented authors, scholars, documentary filmmakers, record companies, and other creators and users of intellectual property. Co-chair of the Modernist Studies Association Task Force on Fair Use, he acts as general counsel for the International James Joyce Foundation. Prior to his legal career, Professor Spoo taught in the English Department at the University of Tulsa, where he was editor of the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published numerous books and articles on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and other modern literary figures and is currently working at the intersection of intellectual property, modernism, and the copyright-related needs of scholars.
EDWARD WESP is assistant professor of English at Western New England College. A scholar of narrative form in nineteenth-century American literature, he is currently at work on a study of the development of Hawthorne's literary aesthetics and has most recently contributed to the MLA collection Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry. Professor Wesp's work with Eric Hayot on digital media has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Comparative Literature Studies, and Game Studies.
