Notes on Contributors

Nathan Bracher is Professor of French at Texas A & M University. His research deals with French politics, society, and culture from the 1930s to the present, and focuses specifically on history and memory. His book Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac's Bloc-notes was published in 2004 by the Catholic University of America Press. Articles devoted to the ongoing problems of commemorating traumatic events of the past in present-day France are forthcoming in Contemporary French Civilization and French Politics, Culture, and Society.

Marc Dambreis Visiting Professor of French at Oxford University and Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the Université de ella Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). He is also Director of the Center for Research on the French Novel since 1950 (CERACC-CNRS). His publications include Roger Nimier hussard du demi-siècle (Flammarion, 1989); Drieu ella Rochelle: Ecrivain et intellectuel (Ed. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1995), Les Hussards: Une génération littéraire (Ed. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000), and Correspondance Paul Morand—Roger Nimier.Recently he has co-edited Le roman français: au tournant du XXI^e siècle (Université de ella Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III) and the Pléiade edition of the novels of Paul Morand.

Hugo Frey is a Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader in History at the University of Chichester, England. He is the author of History 101 Key Ideas (London: Hodder Arnold, 2002) and Louis Malle (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2004). He has contributed articles to The Journal of European Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, Modern and Contemporary France, Études francophones and Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. In 2005, he provided the 'Afterword' to the classic French colonial fantasy novel, Pierre Benoit's The Queen of Atlantis (Nebraska: Nebraska University Press, 2005). His current research explores political ideology in elite and popular culture (historiography, fiction, film, comics, posters, and illustrations).

Scott R. MacKenzie recently left a position as assistant professor at Davidson College to move with his spouse to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published articles in Studies in the Novel, Studies in Romanticism, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. His most recent article, "An Englishwoman's Workhouse is Her Castle: Poor Management and Gothic Fiction in the 1790s," is forthcoming in ELH.

K. Sarah-Jane Murray is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature and French in the Honors College at Baylor University. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton, where she was recognized for outstanding scholarship with the Porter Ogden Jacobus Prize (2002–03). She also holds a diploma in French and Linguistics from the Ecole normale supérieure-lettres et sciences humaines (Lyons, France), and a B.A. in French and Philosophy from Auburn University. She is co-director of the award-winning Charrette Project (http://lancelot.baylor.edu). Her research interests include the origins of vernacular storytelling, Celtic and classical sources of medieval literature, the pan-European legends surrounding St. James the Greater, and the field of humanities computing. Her work has appeared in venues such as Romance Quarterly, Oeuvres et Critique, The Explicator, and the Cahiers de civilization médiévale.

Caroline Rupprecht is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College—City University of New York. She is author of Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006); the translation of Unica Zürn's Dark Spring (Cambridge: Exact Change, 2000); and articles in Studies in 20^th Century Literature, Women in German Yearbook, Room of One's Own, Magie der Unterbrechung, Tygiel Kultury. She is currently working on the figure of the itinerant pregnant woman in the European Avant-garde after 1945.

Elizabeth Sánchez is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Dallas. She has published a number of articles dealing with the nineteenth-century Spanish novel, La Regenta, and several on "complexity theory" and the novel. Her recent publications include an article on the Mexican novel, Pedro Páramo; a long essay on Don Quijote; and—more recently, as...