Contributors
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Martin Crowley teaches in the French department at the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is L’homme sans: Politiques de la finitude (2009; afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy), and he is currently researching responses to ecological and financial catastrophe in recent French thought.
Alex Dubilet is a doctoral candidate in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently finishing his dissertation, “From Kenosis to Immanence: Self-Emptying in the Works of Meister Eckhart, G. W. F. Hegel, and Georges Bataille.” He is also in the process of co-translating François Laruelle’s Théorie générale des victimes into English.
Roberto Esposito is full professor of theoretical philosophy and the coordinator of the doctoral program in philosophy in the Scuola Normale Superiore. His books, including Communitas, Immunitas, Bios, Terza persona, Pensiero vivente, and Due, are all published by Einaudi and have been translated into several languages.
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. Her solo exhibition, titled Tears, is on view at the Jewish Museum in New York from November 8, 2013, to April 20, 2014.
Colin Jager is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches and writes about Romantic-era literature and [End Page 185] culture, philosophy and literature, and secularism and religion. His articles on these topics have appeared in many venues, including mlq, Public Culture, Studies in Romanticism, and elh. He is coleader of the “Objects and Environments” seminar at the Center for Cultural Analysis, and he is the author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era (2007). A new book, titled Unquiet Things: Secularism, Romanticism, Religion, will be published in 2014.
Molly McGarry is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (2008); coauthor of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America (1999); and coeditor of Blackwell’s A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (2007). She is currently working on a new book project titled “Sexual Sedition.”
Arden Reed is the Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English at Pomona College. A Guggenheim Fellow, his latest book, Slow Art, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Lionel Ruffel is the junior member of the Institut universitaire de France, an associate professor of French and comparative literature at Université Paris 8 (Vincennes–Saint-Denis), and the director of studies of Boston University Programs in Paris. A specialist in contemporary literature and theory, he is the author of two books—Le dénouement (2005) and Volodine post-exotique (2007)—and editor of two collections—A quoi jouons? (2008) and Qu’est-ce que le contemporain? (2010). With Olivia Rosenthal, he coedited an issue of the French journal Littérature. He is the director of the Chaoïd series at French publisher Verdier.
Jesse Cordes Selbin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her translation of Claude Lefort’s “International Law, Human Rights, and Politics” appeared in Qui Parle 22.1. [End Page 186]
