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  • Contributors

Jack I. Abecassis, Associate Professor of French and Humanities at Pomona College. He has published articles and essays on Montaigne and twentiethcentury literature and is currently writing a book on Albert Cohen.

Jeffrey Atteberry is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he is focusing on twentieth-century French and Latin American literature. His dissertation, entitled Saving Freedom, investigates the surrealist’s engagement with Christian discourse in their attempts to rethink freedom.

Marc Blanchard teaches Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. Some of his more recent publications include the edition of special issues on Leiris for both MLN and Yale French Studies, on Camus for MLN, and articles on Cuban and Caribbean culture. He heads a Cuba program at UC Davis.

Liz Constable, Assistant Professor of French at the University of California at Davis, is the coeditor of a volume of interdisciplinary essays on decadence, Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). Her research focuses on literature and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Nichola Anne Haxell was until recently a Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where her research interests lay in the areas of nineteenth century poetry and politics/culture, and in women’s writing.

Daniel Heller-Roazen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has published articles on medieval and modern philosophy and poetics, and has edited and translated Giorgio Agamben’s Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 1999).

Claude Imbert is currently chair of the Philosophy Department at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis and the Johns Hopkins University on several occasions, and a Getty scholar since 1994. Author of the major French translation of Frege, her research centers on the history and the diversification of ancient and modern logics. Her other publications include Phénoménologies et langues [End Page 840] formulaires (1992) and Pour une histoire de la logique (1999) Her contribution to this issue pertains to another field of research, to be developed in the forthcoming Années 30: Le Point de non retour.

Kristin Koster is a doctoral student in the Department of French at the University of California, Davis. Her area of interest is the intersection of art and literature in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French texts.

Diana Knight is Professor of French at The University of Nottingham. Her publications include Flaubert’s Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985), Feminism (ed.,1986), Women and Representation (coeditor, with Judith Still, 1995), Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing (1997), Roland Barthes (ed., 1997), and Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (ed., 2000). She is a member of the editorial boards of Paragraph: A Journal of Critical Theory and Nottingham French Studies.

Victor Provenzano is an A.B.D in French Literature at Stanford University, who is currently finishing his doctoral thesis, “The Poetics of Space and Negation in the Work of Flaubert.” His other publications include “Le non d’anti-Oedipe” in Literature and Psychology and a translation of V.Y. Mudimbe’s “Therapeutic Medicine and the Prose of Life in Black Africa” in SAPINA. He is currently translating Identity Cards by Denis Constant Martin et al for Stanford University Press and will have an article on Andrei Tarkovsky forthcoming in Film Comment.

Catherine Rodgers has research interests and several publications in French feminist theory and the contemporary novel. In particular, she has published a number of articles on Marguerite Duras, and is the coeditor of Marguerite Duras: Lectures plurielles (Rodopi, 1998), a collection of papers on Duras given at an international conference she co-organized in London. Her most recent book, Le Deuxième Sexe: Un Héritage admiré et contesté (L’Harmattan, 1998) is a collection of interviews of leading French feminist writers.

Elena Russo is professor of French literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel. She is currently working on a book on the image of the writer in eighteenth-century France.

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