CLAUDIA BARACCHI is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA GERARD BUCHER was Melodia E. Jones Professor of French at SUNY (Buffalo), USA, and now researches in Paris at the Collège International de PhilosophieCLAIRE COLEBROOK is the Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English Literature at Penn State University, USATHOMAS DOCHERTY is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK ROBERT EAGLESTONE is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UKMARC FROMENT-MEURICE is Professor of French at Vanderbilt University, USAMARGARET GREBOWICZ is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Groucher College, USAJOHN P. LEAVEY is Professor of English Literature at the University of Florida (Gainesville), USA PAUL PATTON is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia JEAN MICHEL RABATÉ is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA LYNNE TURNER is Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKJULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Loughborough, UK