Jill Gentile is an adjunct clinical professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York. She is a corresponding editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Her essays, describing a semiotic and phenomenological trajectory of agency, desire, and symbolic life, have been published in several psychoanalytic journals. A founding member of the DreamTank collective, dedicated to the application of psychoanalysis to democracy and to public, symbolic life, she is a practicing psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in Highland Park, New Jersey and in Manhattan, New York.
Michael Macrone is the author of nine books on language, literature, and ideas, including three on Shakespeare. His first book, 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare!', published in two editions by HarperCollins, has sold more than 100,000 copies. He has bachelor's degrees from Brown University in Semiotics and Mathematics, and a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught Web Design at the California College of Art, and his work as an interactive designer and developer has earned numerous awards. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Publishers Marketplace, an online resource for the publishing profession. In recent years he has presented papers on Euripides and John Lennon at psychoanalytic conferences in Italy and Santa Fe.
