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David E. Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA, and President of the Modernist Studies Association. His publications include A Companion to T S. Eliot (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013), and T S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003), as well as a range of articles in such journals as Callaloo, American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, and PMLA.

Gail McDonald teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University (1993), American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960 (Wiley Blackwell, 2006), and articles on American progressivism, modernist poetry, and pedagogy. A founder and past president of the Modernist Studies Association, she is Director of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School.