Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at UC Irvine. His books included Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau; Community at Loose Ends; French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race; A World of Fables; Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy, and the forthcoming Becoming Belgian? National Identity as Childhood Romance. He is the author of numerous articles on travel narrative, tourism and immigration, contemporary philosophy and critical theory, human geography and Renaissance literature, and translator of works by Jean-François Lyotard, Sarah Kofman, Félix Guattari, Eric Alliez, Edouard Glissant, Jane and Paulette Nardal, Suanne Césaire, Georges Sylvain, among others. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and 2008 recipient of its Blaise Pascal medal.
Joanna Hodge is Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She studied for her first and doctoral degrees at Somerville and Wolfson Colleges Oxford. At Wolfson she benefitted from close association with a group of critical anthropologists.
Charles Taylor supported her two years in the then West Germany to complete her study ‘Martin Heidegger’s account of truth: a study of Sein und Zeit ‘ (DPhil 1983). He had returned to Canada, and the thesis was completed under the supervision of Fergus Kerr OP and examined by Alan Montefiore and Rev John Macquarie who was completely unbothered by the suggestion that the translation of Befindlichkeit as state of mind was an error…
Years later the cross over between the account there of a missing analysis of Mitsein and Generation revealed a congruence of interest with that of JL Nancy in Being Singular Plural (1996).
Teaching at Oxford Brookes, University of York and Manchester Metropolitan University was immensely rewarding, and working on research assessment exercises (2001, 2008) instructive about how privileged institutions protect their privilege.
Amusingly I was once described as ‘a closet analytical’ to which I think I owe my appointment to the prestigious RAE/REF panels.
Monographs on Heidegger (1995) Derrida (2007) and now Nancy (2026) disguise a deeply felt sense of incredulity that for so long all the authorities were men….
Secretary and then President of the British Society for Phenomenology, founder member of the Society for European Philosophy (UK) and of Derrida Today editorial board, work for Angelaki journal of theoretical humanities has also been hugely rewarding. Reading and re-reading Nancy especially during Covid was such an education in the art of writing and meaning: we have much for which to thank him….
Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP), which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies; L’Existence Prépositionnelle (Galilée); Living On After Failure (Duke UP); and Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit (forthcoming this summer, Cornell UP). He is also co-author with Jean-Luc Nancy of The Deconstruction of Sex (Duke UP). He has also edited the volume Jean-Luc Nancy Among the Philosophers (Fordham UP); coedited two volumes of the special issue “The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy” of diacritics with Timothy Murray; and with Verena Andermatt Conley, the volume Nancy Now (Polity).
Juli Carson is Professor of Art, Theory, and Criticism in the Department of Art and Director of the University Art Galleries. From 2018-19 she was also Philippe Jabre Professor of Art History and Curating at the American University of Beirut. Carson’s books include Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007), The Limits of Representation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires: Letra Viva Press, 2011), The Hermeneutic Impulse: Aesthetics of and Untethered Past, (Berlin: b_books Press, 2019) and Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2024).
Divya Dwivedi is Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is the co-author with Shaj Mohan of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (Hurst UK, Oxford University Press USA, Westland India: 2024). She is the editor of The Virality of Evil: Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022); and co-editor of Jean-Luc Nancy, Anastasis de la pensée (Edition Hermann, Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris: 2023), Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts (Ohio State UP, 2018), and Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Dwivedi has been elected member of the Executive Council, International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) since 2022, and is also an Advisory Board member of the Institute of Global Value Inquiry Berlin (IGVI), and invited member of UNESCO Women Philosopher's Network.
Eleanor Kaufman is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and specializes in modern French philosophy and its relation to literature, psychoanalysis, religion, and the history of philosophy. She is the author of The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski (Johns Hopkins, 2001), Deleuze, the Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being (Johns Hopkins, 2012), and At Odds with Badiou: Politics, Dialectics, and Religion from Sartre and Deleuze to Lacan and Agamben (forthcoming, Columbia University Press).
Shaj Mohan is a philosopher based in the Indian subcontinent. His research publications are in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of technology, reason, politics and truthness. Mohan is the co-author with Divya Dwivedi of Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics (Hurst, 2024) and Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Tyler M. Williams is Associate Professor at Midwestern State University, where he serves as Coordinator of the Philosophy Program and as Interim Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy. Most recently, he is co-editor and co-translator of Catherine Malabou's book Formations, which is forthcoming this summer from Fordham University Press. His research situates inheritance as a general problem for tradition, and he is currently at work completing a book-length study of William Faulkner as both symptom and critique of reactionary commitments to "heritage" in post-Confederate political ideology.
Gabriele M. Schwab is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine with appointments in Comparative Literature and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Constance in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA in 2009. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Heisenberg Fellowship, her work ranges across critical theory, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, ecology, anthropology, and 20th- and 21st century comparative literatures. Monographs in English include Subjects Without Selves (1994); The Mirror and the Killer-Queen (1996); Haunting Legacies (2010); Imaginary Ethnographies (2012. Winner of the 2014 Choice Award for Best Academic Book); Radioactive Ghosts (2020); Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (2023) She is completing a new book titled Haunted Ecologies and is working on two news projects, one on The Psychology of Evil and one on Transspecies Imaginaries.
Jérôme Lèbre is Professor of philosophy in Lettres supérieures at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris). He is a former student in Ecole normale supérieure and former program Director at the Collège international de philosophie, associate member of the Transmis laboratory (Toulouse II). His work focuses on contemporary French philosophy, in particular Derrida and Nancy, as well as certain themes, including speed and immobility, space, technique and politics. He is the author of about one hundred papers and ten works including Vitesses, Hermann, Paris 2011, Eloge de l’immobilité, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2018, Repartir – Une philosophie de l’obstacle, P.U.F, Paris 2023 ; forthcoming : Quelle distance entre nous, Hermann, september 2026.
Timothy Murray is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Literatures of English at Cornell University. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Humanities New York and past curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and numerous international exhibitions of contemporary art. His books include Technics Improvised, Medium Philosophicum, Digital Baroque, Mimesis, Masochism and Mime, Drama Trauma, and Like a Film. He also serves as Deputy Supervisor of the Town of Caroline and Vice Chair of the Tompkins County Council of Governments.
Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy in the departments of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at UC Irvine. Her last books include Before Tomorrow, Epigenesis and Rationality (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, trans. Carolyn Shread) Morphing Intelligence, From IQ to IA, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, trans. Carolyn Shread), Pleasure Erased, The Clitoris Unthought (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022), trans. Carolyn Shread), Stop Thief ! Anarchism and Philosophy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024, trans. Carolyn Shread), and There Was No Revolution, tbo with Polity Press, 2026
