Notes on Contributors

Jeremy Ahearne is a lecturer in French studies at the University of Warwick in England. He is the author of Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other (1995) and French Cultural Policy Debates: A Reader (2002).

Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is an associate professor of theology at Loyola College in Maryland and currently a visiting professor on the faculty of theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where he is also director of the Loyola International Nachbar House. His work is primarily in the areas of medieval and contemporary theology. He has published numerous essays in journals and books and is the author of Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ (1999).

Ian Buchanan is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania in Australia. He is the author of Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist (2000) and Deleuzism: A Metacommentary (2000).

Philippe Carrard teaches French and literary theory at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier (1992) and several articles on the rhetoric of historiography and historical discourse.

Claire Colebrook teaches English literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Ethics and Representation (1999), Gilles Deleuze (2001), and Distant Voices: Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002).

Tom Conley is a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University. The works by Michel de Certeau that he has translated and edited include The Writing of History (1988 and 1992), The Capture of Speech (1997), and A Politics of Culture (1997). He is the author recently of L’inconscient graphique: Essai sur la lettre à la Renaissance (2000).

Verena Andermatt Conley teaches in the Literature Program at Harvard University. She has published books on feminism, ecology, and technology. She is currently interested in transformations of space in contemporary culture.

Catherine Driscoll is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Adelaide and the director of the Adelaide Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include feminism, philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, modernism, film, and youth studies. She is the author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory (2001).

Carla Freccero is professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has been teaching for ten years. She is the author of Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais (1991) and Popular Culture: An Introduction (1999). She also coedited, with Louise O. Fradenburg, Premodern Sexualities in Europe, a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1.4 (1995), and Premodern Sexualities (1996). She is currently working on a book about early modern France and the New World.

John Frow is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Recent publications include Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995) and Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity (1997).

Richard Terdiman is a professor of literature and the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Discourse/Counter-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France (1985) and Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis (1993). His book on the Enlightenment and contemporary theory, Body and Story: Diderot Discovers Postmodernism, is near completion. Several of his articles have recently appeared or are currently in press: “The Subject of the Other: From Alterity to Heterology” (2000); “Cultural Studies in a Traditional Frame”(2001); and “Given Memory: On Mnemonic Coercion, Reproduction, and Invention” (2002).

Timothy J. Tomasik is pursuing a Ph.D. in French literature at Harvard University in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His dissertation project, “Texts for Collation: Culinary Discourses and Translations of Taste in Early Modern France,” analyzes the culinary literature of sixteenth-century France. He is the translator of the second volume of Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life [L’invention du quotidien] (1998).

Marie-claire Vallois, associate professor of French literature, received her...