Keynote Speakers:

Alan Bass is an analyst and a member of the Graduate Faculty at New School University. He is the author of Interpretation and difference: the strangeness of care (2006) as well as Difference and disavowal: the trauma of Eros (2000). He has also translated four books by Jacques Derrida, including Writing and Difference (1978) and Margins of Philosophy (1982).

Daniel Tiffany is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound (1995) and Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (2000).