Editors’ Introduction

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Adelaide Russo

Adelaide M. Russo, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies, directs the PhD Program in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She organized the 2015 International Colloquium in 20^th-and 21^st-Century French and Francophone Literature and is collaborating with Dominique Viart, Roger Célestin, and Eliane DalMolin on publishing its findings. Member of “L'Observatoire des écritures contemporaines françaises et francophones,” she has written on avant-garde movements, contemporary poetry and philosophy, Michel Deguy, Bertrand Dorny, and the relationship between literature and the visual. The MLA awarded her study, Le Peintre comme modèle: Du surréalisme à l'extrême contemporain (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007) the Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize. Her recent publications include a special issue of Comparative Literature, “Odyssey, Exile and Return” co-edited with Michelle Zerba (October 2015), and “Le Sens de la visite (2006)” in Michel Deguy à l’œuvre: Poésie et poétique (Hermann, 2014).

Dominique Viart

Dominique Viart is an essayist and critic, member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and Professor at the Université Paris-Ouest. He is the editor of the Revue des Sciences Humaines. Viart has authored essays on Jacques Dupin, Claude Simon, Pierre Michon, François Bon, Eric Chevillard, the twentieth-century novel, modern poetry, contemporary literature (La Littérature française au présent, with B. Vercier (Bordas, 2005, 2008)), and an anthology of that recent Literature: Anthologie de la littérature contemporaine française, romans et récits depuis 1980 (Armand Colin, 2013). He also has edited numerous collective works including: Littérature et sociologie (with D. Rabaté and P. Baudorre (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2007)); Écritures blanches (with D. Rabaté (Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2009)); Nouvelles écritures littéraires de l'Histoire (Éditions Minard, 2009); La Littérature française du 20^e siècle lue de l’étranger (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion/Institut Français, 2011); Fins de la littérature (2 volumes; with L. Demanze (Armand Colin, 2012)); and Écrire le présent (with G. Rubino (Armand Colin, 2013)).

Roger Célestin

Roger Célestin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature and co-chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. He has written on travel literature, detective fiction, film, and translation, among other topics. He is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals. Figures and Limits of Exoticism (U of Minnesota P, 1996), co-editor (with Isabelle de Courtivron and Eliane DalMolin) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980–2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002), and co-author (with Eliane DalMolin) of France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2007).

Eliane DalMolin

Eliane DalMolin is a Professor of French and co-chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on modern and contemporary poetry and on cinema and is the author of Cutting the Body: Representing Women in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis (U of Michigan P, 2000), co-editor (with Roger Célestin and Isabelle de Courtivron) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980–2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002), and co-author (with Roger Célestin) of France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2007).