Jeff Persels, Ph.D. (1991), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at the University of South Carolina. He has edited, co-edited and contributed to volumes on early modern scatology, theatre and eco-criticism and authored a number of related articles.

Kendall Tarte, Ph.D. (1997), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University (North Carolina). She has published a monograph on Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches (2007) and articles on sixteenth-century French literature.

George Hoffmann, Ph.D. (1990) University of Virginia, is Professor of French at the University of Michigan. He has published in the history of the book (Montaigne's Career, 1998) before turning to social and religious history in The Reformation of French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers (forthcoming from Oxford).