Contributors
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Gabriel Briex graduated from the Sorbonne (MA 2017) and the ENS (MA 2018), and is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Toronto. His research interests range from American studies and the novel to the history of criticism.
Emily Butterworth is Reader in Early Modern French at King's College London. She is author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2006) and The Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France (Oxford, 2016).
Thomas C. Connolly is Assistant Professor at Yale University and the author of Paul Celan's Unfinished Poetics: Readings in the Sous-Œuvre (Legenda, 2018) along with a number of articles on Rimbaud, Mallarmé, and Baudelaire. He is working on a book project that examines the interrelations of poetry and the visual arts in the Francophone Maghreb.
Roderick Cooke is Assistant Professor of French at Villanova University, and specializes in the literature and culture of modern France. He has published articles on authors including Zola, Baudelaire, Céline, and Flaubert, and is completing a book manuscript on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the Dreyfus Affair.
Caroline Ferraris-Besso is Assistant Professor of French at Gettysburg College. Her research is concerned with the ways in which literature, painting, and photography have been used to shape racial, social, and sexual minorities in France and in the French Colonial Empire. She is working on her first book manuscript, provisionally entitled Postcarding the Other: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Polynesia.
Daniele Frescaroli received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 2018 and now teaches French and English in high school in Italy. He is the author of articles on the translations of Henri Meschonnic and on architectural space and histoire-mémoire in the Rougon-Macquart. He has also published reviews of Swiss literature written in French in collaboration with the University of Fribourg.
Daisuke Kataoka is a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. Interested in exploring the problems of Romanticism and literary modernity, he has published, notably, an article on the reception of Pascal's Pensées by Chateaubriand ("Chateaubriand, disciple infidèle de Pascal," in RHLF, vol. 115, no. 3, 2015), and is also responsible for leading a Japanese translation project of Paul Bénichou's tetralogy on French Romanticism. In the field of contemporary Japanese studies, he has published several articles, particularly on Shigehiko Hasumi and Mieko Kanai, and is currently preparing a monograph on Shuichi Kato.
Claire Konieczny is currently in her second year in the French Literature doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University. Her interests include medieval and early modern book culture, visual culture, and the relationship between image and text.
Rudy Le Menthéour is Associate Professor of French Studies at Bryn Mawr College and the Director of the Institut d'Avignon. He published a study of Rousseau's hygienic approach entitled La manufacture de maladies (Classiques Garnier, 2012) and a scholarly edition of Charles-Augustin Vandermonde's eugenic work, the Essai sur la manière de perfectionner l'espèce humaine (Classiques Garnier, 2015). His current research focuses on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Spartan model, and early modern eugenics.
L. Scott Lerner is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and French and Italian at Franklin & Marshall College. His essays on Proust have appeared in Diacritics, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, and The Romanic Review. He is the editor of The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France (1997) and co-editor of Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries (2010), and The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo D'Azeglio to Primo Levi (forthcoming 2018). His current project is entitled Modern Italy in the Jewish Mirror.
Xiaofan Amy Li does research on Comparative Literature spanning French and Chinese literatures, and is currently Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is the author of Comparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi (Legenda, 2015).
Rebecca Loescher is a visiting assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at Hamilton College. Her research explores relational modes of storytelling in contemporary literatures in French. Her recent publications include "Making the Break: Alain Mabanckou's Tale of Impossible Origins" (in Symposium, vol. 71, no. 3...
