Contributors
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Abigail Alexander just finished her first year of graduate school in the French section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She aims to specialize in nineteenth-century studies, particularly in relation to the French reception of Edgar Allan Poe.
Wilda Anderson is Professor of French in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), and Diderot's Dream (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
Professor Nicholas Cronk is director of the Voltaire Foundation in the University of Oxford, and general editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire. His research interests center on the French eighteenth century, in particular in the areas of Voltaire and history of the book. With Christiane Mervaud, he is co-editing the first critical edition of Voltaire's Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (five volumes published, 2007-11). Other recent publications include The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editions of unpublished Voltaire letters in Electronic Enlightenment (2011).
Jessica Goodman is a D.Phil. student at Worcester College, Oxford. Her thesis considers dramatic authorship and authority through the experiences of Carlo Goldoni at the Comédie-Italienne in the late eighteenth century. Her research interests include the author and textual authority, eighteenth-century theater and dramatic theory, intellectual and literary networks, socio-historical approaches to literature, the commedia dell'arte and Franco-Italian exchange. Her article "Auteurs, acteurs, texte et scène: jeux de pouvoir au Théâtre Italien" will appear in the Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre in 2013.
Elena Kazakova is a Ph.D. student in French at the Johns Hopkins University.
She is interested in Renaissance literature and is currently working on her dissertation, which explores the role of translation in the works of Joachim Du Bellay. [End Page 933]
Laurence Mall is Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). She is the author of two books on Rousseau, Origines et retraites dans La Nouvelle Héloïse (New York: Peter Lang, 1997) and Emile ou les figures de la fiction (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2002). Recent or forthcoming articles include a study of Diderot's irony in the Salons, an examination of the erotics of adornment in Marivaux, Rousseau and Laclos, and a reading of Rousseau's Emile in the perspective of the ethics of care.
Jacques Neefs is Professor and Director of the French section of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, and Professor emeritus at Paris 8. He has published numerous articles on Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Claude Simon, Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, and on genetic criticism. He edited editions of Madame Bovary (Paris: Le livre de Poche, 1999) and Salammbô (Paris: Le livre de Poche, 2011) and was the co-editor of Le Temps des œuvres. Mémoire et préfiguration (Saint-Denis: PUV, 2001) and Crise de Prose (Saint-Denis: PUV, 2002). He is currently preparing the edition of La Tentation de saint Antoine and Bouvard et Pécuchet for the new edition of Flaubert's Œuvres complètes (Gallimard, Bib-liothèque de la Pléiade).
Efstratia Oktapoda is Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She is the author of more than one hundred publications in books, periodicals, and dictionaries, including Francophonie et multiculturalisme dans les Balkans (Publisud, 2006), La Francophonie dans les Balkans. Les Voix des femmes (2005; with V. Lalagianni), and Le Pays et l'ailleurs. Voyage et narration dans l'œuvre de Ezza Agha Malak (L'Harmattan, 2011). She directed a number of special issues for such journals as Dalhousie French Studies and Neohelicon, and most recently, edited the issue Les Littératures francophones. Pour une littérature-monde? of Logosphère.
Gabrielle Piedad Ponce Hegenauer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at The Johns Hopkins University. Her research addresses literary influence and patronage in Spain and Italy during the Habsburg Empire; it takes as its focus...
