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  • Contributors

Audrey Brunetaux is an Assistant Professor of French Studies at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Her research focuses on twentieth-century French literature, culture and cinema with an emphasis on Holocaust narratives and films. She is currently editing a new volume of essays on “Seeing Charlotte Delbo/Seeing the Shoah,” exploring the concept of visuality in Delbo’s texts. (abruneta@colby.edu)

Kevin Bruyneel is an Associate Professor of Politics at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book that critically engages postcolonial theory through the dual lenses of settler colonialism and collective memory, to be published by Routledge Press. (kbruyneel@babson.edu)

Jasper Heinzen is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bern. He completed his PhD on Prussian state-building during the Second German Empire at the University of Cambridge and is currently preparing the manuscript for publication. (jasper.heinzen@hist.unibe.ch)

Mathilde Zederman is a postgraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her interests include the politics of memorialization, both in France and the Maghreb. Her current research explores the memory and history of the Tunisian party Ennahda. She was also the president of the association Belleville Citoyenne. (mathildezederman@hotmail.fr)

Yael Zerubavel is Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University and the Founding Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. She has published extensively in the area of [End Page 163] collective memory and identity, national myths, war and trauma, Jewish immigrant experience, and symbolic landscapes. Her book Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1995) won the Salo Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research. She is currently completing her book manuscript Desert in the Promised Land: Memory, Politics, and Symbolic Landscapes, and is working on a new book project on Biblical Representations and the Performance of Antiquity in Israeli Culture. (yaelzeru@rci.rutgers.edu) [End Page 164]

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