Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was the author of many books, including The Differend, The Postmodern Condition, The Postmodern Explained, and Postmodern Fables.
Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London.
Mary Lydon (1937–2001) was professor of French emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
John Mowitt is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.
