Contributors
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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 UP, 1984), and Diderot’s Dream (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1990).
Göran Blix is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University. His interests range widely across nineteenth-century culture and include the politics of aesthetics, the historical imagination, democratic writing, secularization, and the environmental imagination. He has published articles on Balzac, Hugo, Michelet, Flaubert, Tocqueville, the Goncourt brothers, and Zola, among others, and a book on romantic historicism, From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archeology (2008). His current book project, The Heroism of Modern Life, examines the democratization of literature in nineteenth-century France by looking at efforts to redefine the heroic figure in works by Balzac, Hugo, Michelet, Baudelaire, and others.
Jean-Claude Bonnet is directeur de recherche emeritus at the CNRS. His major publications include Naissance du Panthéon, essai sur le culte des grands hommes (Fayard, “l’esprit de la Cité”, 1998). He is the director of the project of editing the complete works of Louis Sébastien Mercier. The complete theater of Mercier is scheduled to appear in March.
Flora Champy is currently finishing her studies in French Literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. Her research interests include the sources of Rousseau’s political thought; the reception of classical Antiquity in eighteenth-century literature; and performing arts (cinema and theater). She published “Les relations de pouvoir à Clarens: un équilibre voué à l’échec ?” in Dix-huitième siècle 44 (2012): 519–43.
Isabelle Daunais holds the Canada Research Chair in Esthetics and the Art of the Novel at McGill University (Montreal), where she directs a [End Page 982] team of researchers working on the poetics of the novel. Her major publications include Les grandes disparitions. Essai sur la mémoire du roman (Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2008), Frontière du roman. Le personnage réaliste et ses fictions (Presses de l’Université de Montréal et Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2002) and Flaubert et la scénographie romanesque (Nizet, 1993).
Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Jewish Studies and Feminist Theory at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Envisager Dieu avec Edmond Jabès (Editions du Cerf, 2007) and the editor of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World (Routledge, 2010). Her most recent publications include articles that appeared in French Historical Studies and Contemporary French Civilization in 2013. She is currently completing a manuscript on the different representations of terrorism and the cult of martyrdom in Francophone literature by Arab-Muslim and Jewish writers.
Mairéad Hanrahan is Professor of French at University College London. Her publications include Lire Genet: Une Poétique de la difference (1997), Genet (edited, 2004), Literature and the Mathematical (edited, 2007) and Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis (edited, with Mark Dawson and Eric Prenowitz, 2013). Her book Cixous’s Semi-Fictions will appear with Edinburgh University Press in 2014.
Julie Hansen is Research Fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Uppsala University. She has previously published articles on Russian and Czech modernism, exile literature and translingual literature. Her current project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, examines the theme of memory in recent fictional depictions of the Communist period.
Dominique Jullien is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Recent publications include Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade: variations modernes sur les Mille et Une Nuits (2009) and Foundational Texts of World Literature (editor, 2011).
Elena Kazakova is currently an instructor of French at Eastern Washington University. She is interested in French Renaissance literature and in particular in the interaction between literary production and translation. [End Page 983]
Rebecca Loescher is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and is primarily interested in contemporary French literature, autobiographic forms of writing, Gender Studies, Postmodern theory, and World literature.
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