French Theory Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in France, The U.S., and China. Volume 1: France

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger CélestinRoger Célestin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature and co-chair of French Studies at the University of Connecticut. He has written on Montaigne, Flaubert, Tournier, travel literature, and detective fiction and 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 DalMolinEliane DalMolin is a Professor of French and co-chair of French 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).Christian DoumetChristian Doumet is a Professor of French Literature at the Université de Paris 8, and former Programs Director at the Collège international de philosophie. He has published several collections of poetry (Horde, 1989; Horde, suite, 1997; Illettrés, durs d'oreille malbâtis, 2002; La Décharge des années lumière, 2004), prose (Traité de la mélancolie de Cerf, 1992; La Méthode Flaming, 2001; Rumeur de la fabrique du monde, 2004; Japon vu de dos, 2007), essays on poetry (Pour affoler le monstre, 1998; Faut-il comprendre la poésie?, 2004), and, in 2010, an essay on the relationship between Philosophers and Poetry (La Déraison poétique des philosophes).