Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Jean-Christophe Bailly has been the editor of several French publishing companies and now teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois. He has written many books since the seventies, mostly essays. His most recent book in English, The Animal Side, was published by Fordham University Press in 2011.
Renaud Barbaras Renaud Barbaras is professor of contemporary philosophy at the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His latest books include L’ouverture du monde. Lecture de Jan Patočka (Editions de la Transparence, 2011), La vie lacunaire, (Vrin, 2011), Investigações fenomenológicas: Em direção a uma fenomenologia da vida (Editora UFPR, 2011), and Dynamique de la manifestation (Vrin, 2013).
Emanuela Bianchi
Emanuela Bianchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Classics. She works at the intersection of ancient Greek thought, contemporary continental philosophy, and feminist/queer theory, and is the author of The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (Fordham, 2014) as well as several essays on Plato and Aristotle’s natural philosophy. Her current projects concern queer affect and hermeneutics in Plato, and fugitive feminine materiality and kinship in Greek tragedy and philosophy.
Sergio Chejfec Sergio Chejfec has published eleven novels, one collection each of short stories and essays, and two books of poetry. He has received distinctions, among them a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in 2007 and from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2000. He currently teaches in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. Chejfec’s works have only recently begun to appear in English translation: My Two Worlds (translated by Margaret Carson) was the first to appear published by Open Letter [End Page 241] Books in 2011. Open Letter has subsequently published two additional novels—The Planets [Los planetas] in 2012, and The Dark [Boca de lobo] in 2013, both translated by Heather Cleary.
Craig Epplin is an assistant professor at Portland State University, where he works on contemporary Latin American literature and visual culture. His first book, titled Late Book Culture in Argentina, is due out in August 2014 from Bloomsbury. He has published on diverse topics—cinema and space, the aesthetics of publishing, and the relationship between wire and writing—and is currently working on a book about cartography and aesthetics in contemporary Mexico.
Peter Fenves is Joan and Serapta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University, and is the author of several books, most recently The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time.
Ben Garceau is a dual Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and English at Indiana University. He is currently finishing his dissertation about the effects of translation on early medieval epistemology.
Anna Glazova is a poet, translator and scholar of German and Comparative Literature with a PhD from Northwestern University. Currently she is finishing working on her book on Paul Celan’s treatment of quotation. She has taught German literature at Cornell and Johns Hopkins Universities. In the fall of 2013 she had an appointment as a scholar in residence at Rutgers University. She is the author of three books of poems in Russian and has been awarded the Russian Prize for Poetry, the Andrei Bely Prize and the Moscow Score Prize. She has translated into Russian books by Paul Celan, Robert Walser, Unica Zürn and Ladislav Klima.
Jorie Graham lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard. Her poems have been widely translated, including into German, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, Polish and Chinese. They have also been the recipients of numerous awards, [End Page 242] among them The Pulitzer Prize, The Forward Prize (UK) and The International Nonino Prize. From The New World: poems 1976–2014 will be published this winter by Ecco/Harpercollins.
Paul Grimstad teaches in the English department at Yale University. His first book, Experience and Experimental Writing, came out last year from Oxford. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, The London Review of...
