Contributors
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Jack I. Abecassis is the Edwin Sexton and Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor at Pomona College. He has published Albert Cohen, Dissonant Voices (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) as well as many articles on Montaigne, twentieth-century and contemporary fiction, and critical theory.
William S. Allen is the author of Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot (Albany: SUNY P, 2007), as well as articles on Benjamin and Blanchot. He is currently in the process of completing a project entitled Chiaroscuro: Negativity and Autonomy in Blanchot and Adorno.
Wilda Anderson is Professor of French in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1984), and Diderot’s Dream (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1990).
Cecilia Benaglia is a PhD student in French at Johns Hopkins University. She is preparing a dissertation on the relations between the political imaginary and literature in 1950–60 France and Italy, focusing on the writers Claude Simon and Carlo Emilio Gadda. Her research interests include the sociology of literature, World Literature and translation studies.
Laurie Corbin is an Associate Professor of French at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her book, The Mother Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation in Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras, analyzes the representation of the mother by her daughter in the autobiographical work of three French writers. Recent publications in Dalhousie French Studies (forthcoming), [End Page 1092] Callaloo, and Romance Quarterly are on the work of Francophone writers Maryse Condé and Assia Djebar.
Jessica DeVos received her PhD in French from Yale University in 2012. Her research focuses on the literatures of the French and Italian Renaissance and she is particularly interested in gender as a poetic construct. She currently teaches French at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
Irving Goh is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2014), and co-editor with Verena Andermatt Conley of Nancy Now (Polity Press, 2014), a collection of essays on the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. His articles on contemporary French thought have also appeared in journals including MLN, Diacritics, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Cultural Critique, and SubStance. For 2014–15, he is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Humanities at Tufts University.
David Hayden is a fourth-year doctoral student interested in exploring the implications of digital culture as it influences new strands of contemporary French fiction. The core tension of his research is to explore the dialectic between the codex as the embodiment of our literary heritage and the computing screen as a transcendent framework of inscription ripe for literary exploitations. Redefining what it means to be an écrivain in the twenty-first century, his research focuses on intermedial artists and authors such as Camille de Toledo, Eric Sadin, François Bon and Jean-Pierre Balpe.
Miles Hopgood is a doctoral student in the Church History Department of Princeton Theological Seminary whose research interests are in the hermeneutical shifts of the late medieval and early modern periods. He recently presented a paper entitled “Idolatry and the Exegetical Luther: Revisiting the Iconoclastic Controversy” at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.
Kevin Inston, a senior lecturer in French at UCL, is the author of Rousseau and Radical Democracy (Continuum, 2010) and is currently writing a monograph that explores the question of community in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito and Ernesto Laclau. [End Page 1093]
Nicole Karam is a doctoral student in French at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include eighteenth-century French literature and the relationship between French and American law and literature.
Loïse Lelevé obtained her MA in comparative literature at the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2013. Her dissertation focused on fictional paintings in twentieth- and twenty-first century European novels and films. Her interests include the relationships between film, painting and literature, as well as questions of textuality and...
