Ali Chetwynd is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He studies how non-mimetic fiction argues and the medium-specific capacities of prose fiction. He has published, among other things, a triptych of articles on William Gaddis's corporate writing archive with Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.

Marie Fahd earned her PhD in American Literature, with a focus on Gaddis and art, at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7). Specialising in American Literature and formerly a French lecturer at the University of Michigan, she has notably contributed to the American Book Review with an article on Joseph Tabbi’s biography of William Gaddis. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, chiefly focusing on the concept of indeterminacy, the challenges of representation, and the interactions between literature and painting, including the study of fictional paintings. She plans to publish an essay based on her doctoral dissertation that explores and illuminates Cubism techniques in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Starting in 2023, she launched her own business venture, Plume d’Excellence, specialising in professional and literary writings, translations, and transcriptions, both in French and English, catering to diverse audiences.

Crystal Alberts is a Professor of English at the University of North Dakota, where she also serves as co-director of the UND Writers Conference. Alberts specializes in post-1945 literatures and cultures, including Indigenous literatures. She is the co-editor of William Gaddis, “The Last of Something:” Critical Essays. Her scholarship has also appeared in The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy, Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11, Transmotion,Don DeLillo in Context. Alberts is also a digital humanist, whose projects have been funded by multiple awards from the NEA and the NEH. She is currently part of team launching the new “Expanding Digital Humanities Across Northern Plains Indigenous Higher Educational Institutions Initiative,” a multi-year Mellon Foundation funded collaboration between UND and the North Dakota Tribal College System.

Victoria Harding has managed the online discussion group, known variously as gaddis-l, eGad, the Gaddis list, and Gaddis Conversations, since about 2000. At the same time she set up and began constructing the Gaddis site, building around an electronic version of Steven Moore's early book on The Recognitions, created by Ron Dulin, an avid Gaddis reader who importantly also originated the Gaddis list in the mid-1990s. She and Curtiss Leung, an early Gaddis list member with technical skills, conceived of the site as reader-oriented, and assembled a group of dedicated Gaddisians in various parts of the world to propose and discuss, as well as receive from others, notes and related materials for all the novels. Their names appear on the site, where work was done with valuable help and much additional material from Steven Moore; suggestions for additional notes or other information continues to be happily received.

Anja Zeidler-van Oudheusden lives in Northern Germany near Hamburg and works in the medical device industry. She has studied English, Canadian and American Literatures and Cultures and Latin America Studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Augsburg and Manitoba, Winnipeg. She was a contributor to the 2007 Paper Empire. William Gaddis and the World System (eds, Shavers and Tabbi) and has long been a member of and significant contributor to Victoria Harding’s Gaddis Annotations and Thomas Bernhard sites with material, essays and the involvement of German Gaddis translators and artists on both websites.