Stephen Dougherty is Professor of American Literature at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway. He has published articles and essays on diverse topics, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. and British literature, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive science, and science fiction. His work has appeared in Configurations, Cultural Critique, Diacritics, Mosaic, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Currently teaching at the University of Southern California, Mark C. Marino has written on chatbots, electronic literature, games, and other new media. He is editor of Bunk Magazine and a collaborator on Writer Response Theory and the Critical Code Studies blog . His personal webpage is http://markcmarino.com/.