Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. Her reputation was first made due to her translation and preface to Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976), and she has since applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses: from Feminism, Marxism, and Literary Criticism to, most recently, Post-colonialism.

George Steiner
George Steiner, Emeritus Professor of the University of Geneva, is an internationally renowned scholar of Western culture, language, and intellectual history He was named the 2001—02 Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University and is currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. His books include After Babel; Grammars of Creation; No Passion Spent; In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture; Antigones:How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art and Thought; and Errata: An Examined Life. Prof. Steiner has also given the Massey Lectures for the CBC, later published as Nostalgia for the Absolute.

William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson, a poet and cultural historian, has taught in various fields of the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, MIT, York, Syracuse, and the Universities of Toronto and Hawaii. He was nominated for the National Book Award in the US in 1972 and received the Oslo Poetry Festival Award in 1986. Since 1973 his major effort has been in the founding and directing of the Lindisfarne Association as an educational alternative for the humanities in a technological society. Over the years, Lindisfarne has been a moveable feast, with activities in Manhattan, New York; Southampton, Long Island; San Francisco, California; and Crestone, Colorado.