R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the World Cinema program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of more than seventy academic books in both literature and film studies. He directs book series at six university or scholarly presses, including (with Julie Grossman) Adaptation and Visual Culture at ... Read morePalgrave Macmillan. He is the author or editor of several books on literature/film adaptation, including (with Grossman) the multi-author volume Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Marc C. Conner is the Jo M. and James M. Ballengee Professor of English and Interim Provost at Washington and Lee. His books include The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000), Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher (2007), The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered (2012), and The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century, forthcoming (2016). In 2012 the Great Courses program released his 24-lecture series titled How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, and in 2016 they will release a 36-lecture series titled The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature. Show Less