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Vincent Duclert is Professor at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and visiting Professor at Columbia University-Paris. He published the first biography of Dreyfus (Fayard, 2006), L'affaire Dreyfus. Quand la justice éclairait la République (Privat, 2010), and co-edited L'affaire Dreyfus. Un événement fondateur (Colin, 2009). He recently published a study of Republican France 1870-1914, La République imaginée (Belin, 2010) and co-edited The French Republic. History, Values, Debates (Cornell University Press, 2011).

Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French at Montclair State University and the author of Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-siècle French Culture (SUNY, 2001), and the forthcoming Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality (Ashgate Publishing). She serves as joint editor of the journal Romance Studies.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is an internationally recognized specialist in American, Victorian, and Gothic Studies. He serves on editorial boards for Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Studies in American Humor, Victorian Poetry, ELT, and Gothic Studies. His most recent shorter studies are "Laughter in the Idylls of the King," Journal of the Georgia Philological Association 3 (2008): 27-37; and "Swinburne's 'A Nympholept' in the Making," Victorian Poetry 47.4 (2009): 787-800. His most recent books are The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and Edgar Allan Poe in His Own Time (University of Iowa Press, 2010).

Françoise Gaillard teaches the History of Ideas at Université of Paris-Denis Diderot (Paris 7) and New York University, and is affiliated researcher with the Institut de la Pensée Contemporaine. She is author of numerous publications including La modernité en question (with Jacques Poulain, CERF, 1993), Diana crash (Descartes & Cie,1998), and Cachez ce sexe que je ne saurais voir (Dis Voir, 2003), and serves on editorial boards, e.g. L'agenda de la pensée contemporaine, Médium (formerly Cahiers de Médiologie), and Esprit.

Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her biography, Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisèle d'Estoc, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2013. She is currently working on a book about Renée Vivien.

Elisabeth Ladenson teaches French and comparative literature at Columbia and is the author of Proust's Lesbianism (Cornell University Press, 2007) and Dirt for Art's Sake (Cornell University Press, 2007).

Brigitte Mahuzier, a specialist of French 19th- and early 20th-century literature, culture and visual arts, is Professor of French at Bryn Mawr College. She published essays [End Page 198] on Stendhal, Balzac, Baudelaire, Rodin, Mirbeau, Zola, Colette, Rolland and Proust, and edited special issues on Proust (Littérature) and queer French literature (Yale French Studies). Her book, Proust et la guerre, is forthcoming with Honoré Champion editions.

Lisa Algazi Marcus is a professor of French at Hood College in Frederick, MD. Her first book, Maternal Subjectivities in the Works of Stendhal (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001) focused on mothers as desiring subjects in the Stendhalian novel. She has published numerous articles on Stendhal, feminism, and motherhood and is currently working on a book on representations of breast-feeding in nineteenth-century French literature and art.

Anne E. McCall is a Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Denver, where she serves as Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She is past president of the George Sand Association. Her publications focus on post-revolutionary narrative fiction and life writing. Her current book project argues for the importance of complex interactions between epistolary writing, the law, and literary criticism in nineteenth century canon formation.

Marshall C. Olds is Professor and Chair of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. He is the author and editor of works on Flaubert, Mallarmé, and related topics, and, recently, on the literature of the French Restoration and questions pertaining to literary history. He is editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies. In 2007, Marshall Olds...

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