Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University, as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCulture.¿Veronica Thompson is associate professor of Englishand dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at AthabascaUniversity. Her research interests include Canadian and Australianliteratures, postcolonial literatures and theories, and women'sliterature and feminist theory. She is currently researchingrepresentations of terrorism in postcolonial literature. She is alsothe co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on CanadianArts and Culture.¿