Elyane Dezon-Jones is professor of French at Washington University, Saint Louis. She is the author of Proust et l'Amétique (1982) and Marie de gournay: fragments d'un discourse fémin (1987). She has edited Proust's Le Côte de Guermantes (1987), Du côte de chez Swann (1992), and Marguerite Yourcenar's Sources 2 (2000). The former editor in chief of Bulletin Marcel Proust, she has published articles on Proust, Yourcenar, and French women writers. She is currently working on a critical edition of Yourcenar's letters.

Inge Crosman Wimmers is professor of French studies at Brown University. She is the author of Metaphoric Narration: The Structure and Function of Metaphors in A la recherché du temps perdu (1978), Poetics of Reading: Approaches to the Novel (1988), and Proust and Emotion: The Importance of Affect in A la recherché du temps perdu (2003). She and Susan Suleiman are coeditors of The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (1980). She has published articles on reader-oriented approaches to narrative fiction and literary emotions.