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283 Contributors Barbara Levin Amster graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1950 cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She took advanced courses at Seton Hall University and taught elementary school from 1949 to 1952 and 1970 to 1986. Her daughter, Dr. Jeanne H. Amster, is also a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a former trustee. Christopher Benfey, Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke, served for four years as co-director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. A contributor to The New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and the New York Review of Books, he is the author of three books on American culture during the Gilded Age: The Double Life of Stephen Crane, Degas in New Orleans, and The Great Wave. With Karen Remmler, Benfey planned the sixtieth-anniversary celebration of Pontigny-en-Amérique, the basis for this volume. Renee Scialom Cary was born in Istanbul. Her mother was American; her father was born in Greece. From the age of seven she moved with her family across Europe, ahead of advancing Nazi occupations and the threat and spread of World War II, finally arriving in New York City (via Brazil) in early 1941, at the age of fifteen. She attended Mount Holyoke College, graduating cum laude in 1948, and served as a trustee of the college from 1993 to 1998. Stanley Cavell is professor emeritus of philosophy at Harvard University, where he was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics in the General Theory of Value. He is the author of numerous books, including The World Viewed, Pursuits of Happiness, and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on the Register of the Moral Life. In 1992 Cavell received the MacArthur Foundation“Genius Award.” Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her many areas of interest in twentieth-century avant-garde literature and art include Surrealism, the poets René Char and André Breton, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, and the artists Robert Motherwell and Joseph Cornell. Alyssa Danigelis is a journalist whose feature writing has appeared in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, the Valley Advocate, and MIT’s alumni magazine, Technology Review. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2001 and has a master of science degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Jacques Derrida, the author of over fifty books on philosophy, literature, the arts, Marxism, human rights, and many other subjects, died in 2004. At the time of his 284 Contributors death he held a distinguished professorship at the University of California, Irvine, and had served as professor of philosophy and directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Elissa Gelfand is professor of French at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Imagination in Confinement: Women’s Writings from French Prisons and French Feminist Criticism: Women, Language, and Literature (with Virginia Thorndike Hules). She is working on representations of aging women in French fiction. Romy Golan is associate professor of twentieth-century European art and theory at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France between the Wars and co-author of The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905–1945. Her forthcoming book is titled “Muralnomad : The Mural Effect in European Art, 1927–57.” Leah D. Hewitt is professor of French at Amherst College. She is the author of Autobiographical Tightropes and is currently finishing a book titled“Marianne on Screen: Ambiguous Representations of World War II France.” Laurent Jeanpierre is a sociologist and historian at the Centre d’étude des discours, images, textes, écrits, communications at the Université Paris XII Val de Marne, France. He works on intellectual migrations in the twentieth century and has written a dissertation on French intellectual exiles in the United States. His article “Occult Encounters and ‘Structural Misunderstanding’ in the United States” appeared in Exile, Science, and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Intellectual Émigrés. Monique Jutrin teaches French literature at Tel Aviv University and is the founder of the Benjamin Fondane Society. She is the editor of the correspondence between Jean Wahl and Rachel Bespaloff and is currently editing Rachel Bespaloff’s works in France. Jerome Kohn is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City and a trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust. His...

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