Claudia Ferradas Moi is tenured lecturer in English Literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández", Buenos Aires, and teaches post-graduate seminars at the MA in Literatures in English, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. She is also the Cultural Programme Co-ordinator at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate (ESSARP). In the UK, she is an Associate Trainer with the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE) and Visiting Fellow at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University.
   Claudia has extensive international experience as a teacher educator and presenter and has published a number of articles and contributions to books on literature, rock poetry and hypertext fiction. She has also written teaching materials on contemporary UK writers for the British Council Argentina. She is the author of Rock Poetry in the Creative Language Classroom (DL Books, 1994) and Working with Values, Pearson/Longman, 2006 and is one of the contributors to Developing Materials for Language Teaching (ed. Brian Tomlinson, Continuum, 2003). Claudia co-chaired the Oxford Conference in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

John McRae has been Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham since 1992, and, from 1999 to 2004,  Professeur Invité at the University of Avignon. He currently holds Visiting Professor posts in China  and Spain,  has been Visiting Professor in Austria, Brazil, India, Italy,  Malaysia, Sweden and the USA (1997-2002), and has lectured in over fifty countries. In Nottingham he directs Masters and Distance courses in Creative Reading, Language in Literature Teaching, and World Englishes.
    Since the publication of Reading Between the Lines in 1984 he has been at the forefront of work on the language, literature and culture interface, notably with the seminal book Literature with a small ‘l’ (1991/1997). With Ronald Carter he is co-author of the volume which came out of a series of Nottingham/British Council Language and Literature seminars, Language, Literature and the Learner (1996), and of two major books which have had worldwide success, The Penguin Guide to English Literature and The Routledge History of Literature in English.  New editions of both were published in 2001. The Routledge History was awarded a Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union Prize for 2001; Now Read On: a course in multi-cultural reading, co-written with Malachi Edwin Vethamani, John’s co-Chair at the 1998 Oxford Conference,  was short-listed for the same prize in 1999. The Routledge Guide to Modern Writing (2005) is the most recent McRae/Carter collaboration.
   Ronald Carter and John McRae are also Editors of Penguin Student Editions, for which  John edited  Jane Eyre, A Passage to India, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Turn of the Screw, Great Expectations, and the stories of Katherine Mansfield. He also wrote the Penguin Guide to Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country.
John has been closely involved with the Oxford Conference as Chair, co-Chair, and presenter for fifteen of its 21 years.

Alan Pulverness is an Associate Trainer with the Norwich Institute for Language Education, and was Editor of IATEFL Conference Selections from 1999 to 2004.  He has worked as a consultant on language and culture materials development projects for the British Council in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.  He is the author of All in a Word: Literature in Language Teaching (Bell Educational Trust 1989) and co-author of a number of ELT textbooks.  He has edited a schools’ edition of Macbeth (Società Editrice Internazionale 2000) and was editorial adviser for The Literary Labyrinth (Società Editrice Internazionale 1993) and The World Wide Reader (Oxford University Press & La Nuova Italia 2001).  His most recent publications are “Materials for Cultural Awareness” in Developing Materials for Language Teaching (Continuum 2003) and The TKT Course (Cambridge University Press 2005).  Alan co-chaired the Oxford Conference in 2002, 2003 and 2005.