%0 Journal Article %T Supermembranes and Supermatrix Models %A B. de Wit %A K. Peeters %A J. C. Plefka %J Physics %D 1997 %I arXiv %X We briefly review recent developments in the theory of supermembranes and supermatrix models. In a second part we discuss their interaction with background fields. In particular, we present the full background field coupling for the bosonic case. This is a short summary of the talk at the workshop. A more extended version will appear elsewhere. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9712082v3