A nita Mannur (BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and a candidate for the graduate certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include Asian American literature and theories of diaspora and nation. Anita has authored articles in the collection Postcolonial Translations: Changing the Terms of Cultural Transmission and the journal Bookbird, and is the co-editor (with Jana Evans-Braziel) of the forthcoming reader Theorizing Diasporas (Basil Blackwell). Her article entitled "Desiring Food and Gender: Consuming Indian-ness on Padma's Passort" is forthcoming in Cultural Studies. She has also published several encyclopedia entries and book reviews. Among Anita's many presentations are the upcoming papers "A Real Spice Girl? Selling Food and Sensuality on Padma's Passport" at MLA and "Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America" at the American Studies Association.  She is currently completing her dissertation entitled Culinary Scapes: Discourses of Food, Gender and Nation in Contemporary South Asian Culture and Literature. She has taught courses on Asian American Studies, race and gender in Asian America, and children's literature at MIT, Harvard and U Mass. She currently is an University Fellow at U Mass. Beverly Weber [BA Gustavus Adolphus College, 1994; MA Penn State University, 1997 (Comparative Literature) and 1998 (German) ] is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and a candidate for the graduate certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Research interests include theories of nation, nationalism, race and ethnicity; contemporary immigration in Germany; and immigrant literature of Germany and the United States. She co-authored (with Thomas Beebee) the forthcoming German Quarterly article "A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics" and has presented on the work of Christa Wolf, Anne Duden, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar as well as on nationalism and orientalism in contemporary Germany. She has designed and taught courses on migration, nationalism, spaces of the Cold War. She is currently working on her dissertation entitled Of Woman and Nation: Nationalisms and the Immigrant Body in Contemporary Germany. Beverly has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including fellowships at Penn State and U Mass as well as the Fulbright/Pädogogischer Austauschdienst Award. Craig Sinclair (BA University of East Anglia, UK, 1998) is in the PhD program in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Specialties include American and European cinemas, film theory, contemporary cultural studies, postmodernisms, and conspiracy studies. Recent presentations include "posTmodeMism: what tomorrow looked like" and "In the Realm of the Censors: Ai no corrida, sex, censorship and art." Craig is also the recipient of a full travel grant for his presentation "Audition: the power of sound in the cinema" at the upcoming Word/Image conference in Belgium. Craig has recently designed and taught a new course at U Mass, "Introduction to Cultural Studies," and has also taught courses on film. Current projects include work on topics such as thinking theory after postmodernism, the internet and the new economy of time, and the influence of the internet on academic institutions. Dale Hudson (BA Bucknell University, 1987; MA New York University, 1991) is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, writing his dissertation on vampires, technology, and the politics of horror.  His research interests include visual culture, critical theory, popular culture, and constructions of identity in cyberspace.  Dale has presented papers on works by David Cronenberg, Joan Miró, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as on online vampire culture.  He has revised/revived courses in the department, including an introduction to literary and film theory and writing course for majors, which includes a colloquium in which students present original work, and a very popular course in vampire film and fiction.  This year, he has been nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award.  He is also working on a writing project for W. W. Norton.