Contributors
- Contributors
BENOÎT CHANTRE is a publisher in social sciences, associate member of the Centre international d’études de la philosophie française contemporaine (CIEPFC-Rue d’Ulm), fellow of Imitatio, and president of the Association Recherches Mimétiques (www.rene-girard.fr). He has written books of interviews (La Divine Comédie, with Philippe Sollers; Le Choix de Pascal, with Jacques Julliard; Achever Clausewitz, with René Girard), an essay on Charles Péguy (Péguy point final), and numerous articles on Bergson, Girard, Levinas, and Simone Weil (for Artpress, Cahiers Simone Weil, Esprit, L’Infini, La Revue des deux Mondes) He has directed three stagings (Le Naufragé by Thomas Bernhard, Festival d’Avignon; The Messiah by Handel and Il Re Pastore by Mozart, Théâtre du Châtelet), two films of interviews with René Girard (La Violence et le sacré and Le Sens de l’histoire), and organized numerous seminars, lectures, and conferences in France and in Italy (Académie de France à Rome). Next fall he will publish a tribute book to René Girard at Grasset and is preparing Girard’s biography (for Flammarion).
MAUD CHIA-ROUSSEAU is a final year undergraduate philosophy student at the University of Edinburgh. She spent her third year abroad at the International [End Page 207] Christian University, Tokyo, where she took a course on René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire given by Professor Jeremiah Alberg.
RENÉ GIRARD (1921–2015) was a member of the French Academy and emeritus professor at Stanford University. He is the recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2008). His books have been translated widely: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965); Violence and the Sacred (1977); The Scapegoat (1986); Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (1987); A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare (1991); I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001); Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire (2004); Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005 (2008); Battling to the End (2009); Sacrifice (2011); Anorexia and Mimetic Desire (2013); When These Things Begin (2014); and The One by Whom Scandal Comes (2014).
PER BJØRNAR GRANDE is associate professor at Bergen University College, Norway, in Religion & Philosophy. Grande has published six books: Mimesis and Desire: An Analysis of the Religious Nature of Mimesis in the Work of René Girard, (Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, 2009); essays on mimetic theory in Etterligningens dilemma (Sogndal: HSF-rapport, 1995); on historical evolution in Utviklingsoptimisme (Oslo: Vidarforlaget, 2015); on the Orthodox Church in Den ortodokse kirke (Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget, 2009); on ideologies in Sentrale livssyn (Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2004);and on Christianity in Kristendommen: En innføring (Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2005). Grande has also published a number of articles on mimetic theory, such as: “Proustian Desire,” Contagion 18 (2011); and “Desire in The Great Gatsby,” Journal of Generative Anthropology 21 (2015), http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2101/2101Grande.htm.
ROB GRAYSON is a freelance French to English translator in Coventry, United Kingdom. He has a Bachelor’s degree in French and linguistics from the University of Nottingham. He also writes about theology, faith and life at http://www.faithmeetsworld.com.
ANDREA GRAZIOLI is an independent researcher. After earning a bachelor’s degree at University of Milan studying René Girard’s thought and the implication of mimetic desire in the comic arts, Andrea Grazioli is working on Alberto Moravia for his M.A. final work. [End Page 208]
HANS ABDIEL HARMAKAPUTRA is currently a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at Boston College, Theology Department. Prior to his current position, he taught at Jakarta Theological Seminary as an adjunct faculty. He has interest in the intertwining between theology, Christianity, and secular age, and also in violence and peacebuilding efforts.
CHELSEA JORDAN KING is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, she received her Th.M. and Master of Theological Studies from Boston College. She has served as the editor-in-chief of Lumen et Vita, the graduate theological journal of Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. King recently published an article entitled “Eucharist and Sacrifice” in the edited volume Catholics: A Sacramental People, which...
