Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Nathan Bracher is Professor of French at Texas A & M University. His current research focuses on the intersection of literary representations of the past and contemporary historiography as outlined by Henry Rousso, Pierre Nora, and Ivan Jablonka. Bracher’s many articles on history and memory include most recently "L’Histoire hors sujet ou Écrire le passé ‘comme Elstir peignait la mer’: Le cas de L’Histoire des grands-parents que je n’ai pas eus d’Ivan Jablonka" in Modern & Contemporary France; “Pour une histoire à l’imparfait du présent: La Dernière catastrophe d’Henry Rousso,” in French Cultural Studies; “Hélène Berr et l’écriture de l’histoire,” in French Politics, Culture, and Society (Spring 2014), and “Le Passé du futur dans l’imparfait du présent: L’écriture de l’histoire chez Irène Némirovsky, Hélène Berr et Léon Werth” in Mémoires occupées (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013). Bracher’s book After the Fall: War and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky's Suite française was published by The Catholic University of America Press in 2010. His selection of François Mauriac’s editorials in English translation with notes and commentary, François Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion, was also published by the Catholic University of America Press in 2015.
Audrey Brunetaux is an Associate Professor of French Studies at Colby College. Her research focuses on 20th-century French literature, culture and cinema with an emphasis on Holocaust narratives and films. Her publications cover a wide range of topics related to Vichy France and the Shoah. They have appeared in academic journals such as History & Memory; Holocaust Studies: Journal of Culture & History; French Review; Women in French Studies to name a few. Professor Brunetaux has worked extensively on Holocaust writer/survivor Charlotte Delbo and written articles on the representation of the Vél d’Hiv roundup of 1942 in French television and cinema.
Magali Chiappone-Lucchesi has graduated in 2015 from Université Paris III/Sorbonne Nouvelle with a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies. She has a special interest in dramaturgical issues related to memory and testimony. Her doctoral thesis explores Charlotte Delbo’s theatre. She has published several articles about Charlotte Delbo such as “La Respiration de Charlotte Delbo et le souffle de Louis Jouvet” in Charlotte Delbo, oeuvre et engagements (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014) or “Le Témoignage théâtral de Charlotte Delbo: Du Double au testament” in Etudes Théâtrales (2011).
Patrick Henry is Cushing Eells Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington where he taught French and French literature from 1976 to 2002. During the 2013–14 academic year, he was the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Professor Henry has [End Page 125] published books on Voltaire, Camus, Montaigne, and La Princesse de Clèves. More recently he has written “We Only Know Men:” The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust (The Catholic University of America Press, 2007) which has been translated and published in France as La Montagne des Justes (Éditions Privat, 2010). He also edited Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis (The Catholic University of America Press, 2014).
Michaela Hulstyn is a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in French Literature at Stanford University. Her dissertation is on narrative models for unselfing and the ethical dilemmas posed by exceptional self-experiences in twentieth-century French and Francophone literature. She has published an article on Henri Michaux's mescaline experiments in the interdisciplinary volume Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience (2014) as well as an article on the self and other in pain in Charlotte Delbo and Paul Valéry in a forthcoming issue of Modern Language Notes.
Brett Ashley Kaplan received her Ph.D. from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now the Director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (2007) and Landscapes of...
