Anthony La Vopa is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Fichte. The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Suzanne Raitt is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Vita and Virginia. The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (Oxford University Press, 1993), and May Sinclair. A Modern Victorian (Oxford University Press, 2000).