Derek Attridge, emeritus Professor of English at the University of York, has authored many books, which include Post-structuralism and the Question of History (co-edited with Geoff Bennington and Robert Young) (1987), Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995) and Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (2000). He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camargo Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, and is a fellow of the British Academy.

Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he also runs the Inter-University Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ontology and the Laboratory for Ontology. He is the author of more than fifty books on aesthetics, Derrida and continental philosophy. Books in English include History of Hermeneutics (1996), Documentality, or Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces (2012), Goodbye Kant! (2013), Manifesto of New Realism (2014) and Where Are You? Ontology of the Cell Phone (2014).

Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf. She is the author of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual (1998) and the co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998). Other publications include Modernism, 1910–1945: Image to Apocalypse (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006). She is currently completing a book on Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog.

Jen Hui Bon Hoa is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College. She specializes in modern French and English literature and continental philosophy. She is currently writing a book on post-Marxist theories of community and representations of the city in contemporary French non-fiction.

Andrea Hurst is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is the author of Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis (2008). She has published more than forty papers on authors such as Lyotard, Levinas, Heidegger, Lacan, Irigaray, Žižek and Adorno in various journals.

Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer and Head of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She has co-edited Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998), In the Country of the Moon: British Women Travellers in Greece 1718–1932 (2005), Women Writing Greece (2008) – a collection of critical essays on gender, Hellenism and Orientalism – and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (2017). She has a special interest in the subject of Hellenism and its uses by modern writers and thinkers, which is the focus of her next book, Still Life: Modernism’s Greek Turn.

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. He is the author of four books (Roland Barthes or the Profession of Cultural Studies, Deconstruction after 9/11, Paul de Man and Deconstructing Disney). He has edited nine collections of essays on topics like Paul de Man, Rousseau, Muriel Spark and Post-theory.

Ginette Michaud is Professor of French Literature at the University of Montreal. She is the author of more than twenty books and collections, half of which deal with Quebecois literature, half with deconstruction and Derrida, whose seminars she is publishing in French and English. In 2010 she published Battements du secret littéraire: Lire Derrida et Cixous, vol. 1, and Comme en rêve, vol. 2. In 2013 she published Cosa Volante, and in 2014 she co-edited Appels de Jacques Derrida.

Laurent Milesi, formerly Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, is Tenured Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is one of the general editors of the Theory, Culture and Politics series at Rowman and Littlefield International and, together with Arleen Ionescu, edits the international journal Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. He has edited James Joyce and the Difference of Language (2003) and coedited Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (2017). He has translated works by Jacques Derrida (H. C. for Life, That Is to Say …, 2006) and Hélène Cixous (Zero’s Neighbour, 2010; Philippines, 2011; Tomb(e), 2014).

Joshua Schuster is Associate Professor of English at Western University. His book The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics (2015) won the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize from the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada. Recent essays have appeared in Humanimalia, Minnesota Review and Photography & Culture, as well as in an edited volume, Critical Perspectives on Veganism, and in the book Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements (2016). His next book is What Is Extinction? A Cultural and Natural History of Last Animals.

Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Verfolgung und Trauma (1990). She has edited Das Vergessen(e): Anamnesen des Undarstellbaren (1997) and Questioning Judaism (2004). She is the editor of works by Jacques Derrida, and the translator into German of texts by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Félix Guattari. Recent publications include the co-edited volume Speaking about Torture (2012) and Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace (2013).

Yue Zhuo has taught at Yale and has been Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the forthcoming La force du négatif, Georges Bataille et la question du sacré. She has published twenty articles on Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes and Pascal Quignard in various edited volumes and journals, including Contemporary French & Francophone Studies; Critique; French Forum; Modern Language Notes; Theory, Culture & Society; Littérature; Yale French Studies; and Revue Textuel.