William Collins Donahue, author of The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fè, is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies.Julian Preece, author most recently of The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti: Out of the Shadows of a Husband, is professor of German at the University of Wales Swansea. He has also authored The Life and Works of Guenter Grass: Literature, History, Politics and edited The Cambridge Companion to Kafka.