Contributors
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Pierpaolo Antonello teaches Italian Literature at the University of Cambridge, England. He is completing his Ph.D. at Stanford University with a dissertation on Italo Calvino. He has been working extensively on the relationship between literature and science in Italian 20th century writers. Along with Olga Vasile, he edited a special issue of SubStance on Guy Debord.
Maria L. Assad is Professor of French at Buffalo State College. She recently published Reading With Michel Serres: An Encounter with Time (Albany: State University of New York, 1999). Her work also includes La fiction et la mort dans l'oeuvre de Stéphane Mallarmé (New York : P. Lang, 1987); and the translation of Must There Be Scapegoats? by Raymond Schwager (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent teaches history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris X. Her books are: Langevin: 1872-1946, science et vigilance (Paris: Belin, 1987); Lavoisier: mémoires d*une révolution (Paris: Flammarion, 1993); Eloge du mixte: Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne (Paris: Hachette, 1998); and with Isabelle Stengers, Historie de la chimie (Paris: La Découverte, 1993).
Alessandro Delcò is the author of several books on French philosophy, including: Filosofia della differenza: La critica del pensiero rappresentativo in Deleuze (Locarno: Pedrazzini Edizioni, 1988); Le metamorfosi della sostanza in Leibniz: Momenti di una teoria (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1994); and Morfologie: Cinque studi su Michel Serres (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1995), which is also available in a French edition: Morphologies: A partir du premier Serres (Paris: Kime, 1998).
René Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French, Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford [End Page 285] University. He is now retired. He is regarded as one of the most important contemporary thinker. Deceit, Desire and the Novel; Violence and the Sacred; Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World; The Scapegoat are his most famous books, all of which have been translated in several languages. His most recent publication is Je vois Satan tomber comme l*eclair (Paris: Grasset, 1999).
Robert P. Harrison is Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of The Body of Beatrice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988); Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (University of Chicago Press, 1992) and, in French, Rome, la pluie: A quoi bon la litterature? (Paris: Flammarion, 1994)
Ming-Qian Ma is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published on the American avant-garde poetry and poetics in Contemporary Literature, American Literary History, Analecta Husserliania: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, and others. He is currently working on a book project on the formal innovation and its philosophical implications in contemporary American experimental poetry.
William Paulson is Professor of French at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987); The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988); and Sentimental Education: The Complexity of Disenchantment (New York: Twayne, 1992). He is the English co-translator of Le Tiers-Instruit and Le contrat naturel by Michel Serres.
Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her most recent books are Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (University of Chicago Press, 1991); Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (University of Chicago Press, 1996); Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions (Northwestern University Press, 1998). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Gaspare Polizzi is an independent scholar. He has been working extensively on contemporary philosophy and, in particular, on French philosophy of science. He is the author [End Page 286] of several volumes: Scienza ed epistemologia in Francia 1900 1970 (Turin: Loescher 1978); Forme di sapere e ipotesi di traduzione. Materiali per una storia dell*epistemologia francese (Milan: FrancoAngeli 1984); Michel Serres: Per una filosofia dei corpi miscelati (Naples: Liguori 1990). He is the Italian translator of Genése by Michel Serres [Genesi (Genoa: Il Melangolo, 1988)]; and of Henri Poincare, Valeur de la science [Il valore della scienza (Firenze : La nuova Italia, 1994)]. He...
