Contributors
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Noëlle Batt is Professor Emeritus of American literature and literary theory at the University Paris 8-Vincennes. She directed a research program for 20 years on “Literature and Cognition” and was the director of the Journal TLE (Théorie, Littérature, Epistémologie), University Press of Paris 8 (PUV). She has published extensively in the field of literary theory and literary criticism, and more particularly on the transdisciplinary relations between science, literature and philosophy. She is also a member of the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts) and on the Advisory Board of SubStance.
David F. Bell is Professor Emeritus at Duke University and a co-editor of SubStance. He has worked extensively on the French novel in the nineteenth century, as well as on the history of science and technology.
Marco Caracciolo is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he leads the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating the Mesh.” His work explores narrative strategies for figuring humanity’s entanglement in a more-than-human world. He is the author of three books, including most recently Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers’ Engagement with Characters (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). His new book project (working title, Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene) is currently under review.
Andrey Gordienko holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he has taught a graduate seminar on contemporary film theory following his graduation. He has been a Mellon Graduate Fellow in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University and has published on the political consequences of Georges Bataille’s philosophy. His recent essays have been featured in Continental Philosophy Review and Paragraph. A participant in the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, he is currently working on two book projects provisionally entitled The Acephalic Community and Political Affects. In addition to teaching and conducting research on contemporary French philosophy, he works as a writer and development specialist at a nonprofit center dedicated to delivering healthcare services to the uninsured, undocumented and low-income residents in Los Angeles.
Chris Hall is a PhD candidate and Hall Center for the Humanities Doctoral Fellow at the University of Kansas. His dissertation, Worlding Modernism: The Political, the Postcolonial, and the Modern Body, focuses on gender, race, and the nonhuman in modernism and modernity, and on bringing modernist literature into conversation with the postcolonial and biopolitics in an attempt to envision new formations of embodied sovereignty. Hall’s work has appeared in the International Journal of Transmedia Literacy and the SFRA Review, and is forthcoming from the Facta Ficta Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media and Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies. Hall also serves as Managing Editor for the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Shannon Lambert is a PhD researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She is a member of the ERC-funded project “Narrating the Mesh” (NARMESH) led by Prof. Marco Caracciolo. Shannon received her Master of Philosophy (Language and Literature) from the University of Adelaide for a thesis that uses Deleuzian and post-Deleuzian theories to reread animals in early-modern texts. Her PhD within the NARMESH project draws together affect and narrative studies to explore different forms of human-nonhuman relationality in representations of contemporary science. She has recently published an article in a special issue on “Interspecies Communication” in the journal PUBLIC, and has forthcoming articles in Cahiers Voor Liter-atuurwetenschap and American Imago.
Sydney Levy is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-founder of SubStance, with Michel Pierssens, and has edited it for a number of years. He has published on Max Jacob, Francis Ponge, Edmond Jabès, Lorand Gaspar, OULIPO, Balzac, Perec, and Poe.
Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He is the author of five full-length book projects. His latest monograph is entitled, The Encyclopedic Philosophy of Michel Serres: Writing the Modern World and Anticipating the Future (2016). Moser has also contributed sixty-three essays to peer-reviewed publications representing many divergent fields, including French and Francophone studies, environmental ethics...
