Contributors
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Jack Abecassis is the Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. He has published Albert Cohen, Dissonant Voices (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) as well as many articles on Montaigne and Early Modernity, twentieth-century fiction and critical theory.
Hélène Bilis is an assistant professor of French at Wellesley College. She is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled, Passing On: Dynastic Succession and the Feeble King in Neoclassical Tragedy (1630-1750). This work explores how the physically weak, aging, or indecisive king poses aesthetic and political challenges to the representation of royal authority in the works of Jean Rotrou, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and Voltaire.
Frances Ferguson is the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action (University of Chicago Press, 1994). She is currently working on a book on education in the Enlightenment.
Former president and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Shiguéhiko Hasumi is known as a film critic as well as a scholar of French literature. Among his numerous publications are Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo, 1983; French version: Cahiers du cinéma, Paris, 1998) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Tokyo, 2001; English version in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Routledge, June 2008; French version in Trafic, Automne 2010, P.O.L.) He is finishing two books in Japanese: one on John Ford and the other on Gustave Flaubert.
Daniel Just received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University, and before joining the department of Political Science at Bilkent University was an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the impact of decolonization and de-Stalinization on the political and ethical imagination in postwar literature. Some of his recent work has appeared in New Literary History, Modern Language Review, French Forum, Romanic Review and Forum for Modern Language Studies.
Claire Kew received her Ph.D. in French from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Currently an Assistant Professor of French at Salisbury University, her research interests include the naturalist literary movement, Francophone [End Page 1001] literature of the Caribbean, and the bande dessinée. Her most recent publication, "Think Outside the Bubble by Adding Comic Books to Your Language Curriculum," which she co-authored with Arlene White, appeared in the August 2009 edition of ACTFL's The Language Educator.
Martin von Koppenfels is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Munich, Germany. He has been working in the fields of Spanish and French literature, narratology, emotion studies, and psychoanalysis. His most recent monographical studies are Immune Erzähler. Flaubert und die Affektpolitik des modernen Romans (München 2007), and Introducción a la muerte. La poesía neoyorquina de Lorca y el duelo de la lírica moderna (Kassel 2007).
Joachim Küpper is professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Literatures at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published on Balzac, Flaubert and on Romance language literature of the Early Modern period. In addition, his research focuses on literary theory and aesthetics. Currently, he is at work on a book manuscript that will discuss the principles of cultural exchange.
Andrew Pigott is rounding out his graduate studies. His dissertation bears on chance, both as a theme and as a procedure of writing, in the work of Mallarmé, Tzara, Breton and Beckett.
Brian J. Reilly received his Ph. D. in French from Yale University. His research interests include the relation between science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as contemporary French intellectual history. He previously published an article intitled "Hopkins Impromptu: Following Jacques Derrida Through Theory's Empire" in MLN 121:4.
Michelle Slater's research interests include twentieth-century French and Francophone literature. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
Nadège Veldwachter received her doctorate in Francophone Studies at UCLA in 2005. She is professor of Francophone Literatures at Purdue University. The main areas of her research are post-colonial studies, the sociology of literature and contemporary French culture...
