Contributions: Gavin Arnall
Gavin Arnall is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research and teaching converge at the intersection of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy, with a special focus on Marxism and its (missed) encounters with Black and Indigenous radicalisms. He is the author of Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (Columbia University Press, 2020), the translator of Emilio de Ipola’s Althusser, The Infinite Farewell (Duke University Press, 2018), and the coeditor of Between Revolution and Democracy: Jose Arico, Marxism, and Latin America (Brill’s Historical Materialism Book Series, forthcoming).
Contributions: Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin has served as the Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and as the President of the College International de Philosophie. A recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal, she is a member of the Academie Francaise and an exhibit curator. Her recent books in English translation include Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis (Fordham University Press, 2019), Google Me: One-Click Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2017), and Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? (Fordham University Press, 2016). Her editorial work includes the seminal Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press, 2014). A translator herself (notably of Hannah Arendt and Peter Szondi), she is the editor of several book series including L’Ordre philosophique.
Contributions: Katie Chenoweth
Katie Chenoweth is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University. She is the author of The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Her articles on Renaissance culture, media history, and deconstruction have appeared in venues such as Discourse, Montaigne Studies, Symploke, and The Comparatist. She is director of the Bibliotheque Derrida at Editions du Seuil, a collection that includes Derrida’s unpublished seminars and other posthumous works. At Princeton, she is the director of Derrida’s Margins, an ongoing digital humanities project dedicated to Derrida’s personal library.
Contributions: Benjamin Conisbee Baer
Ben Conisbee Baer is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the translator of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn (Columbia University Press, 2011). Baer’s most recent book, in collaboration with Smaran Dayal, is Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). His work in the fields of postcolonial theory, Marxism, deconstruction, and South Asian literature has appeared in journals such as PMLA, boundary 2, Cultural Critique, Modernism/Modernity, Sikh Formations, and many edited volumes.
Contributions: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of French and Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include history of philosophy, history of logic and mathematics, Islamic philosophy, and African philosophy and literature. His latest publications in English include Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2018); Postcolonial Bergson (Fordham University Press, 2019); In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (with Jean-Loup Amselle, Polity, 2020); African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023).
Contributions: Cate Reilly
Cate I. Reilly is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State (Columbia University Press, 2024). Her areas of specialty include Central and Eastern European modernism, biopolitics and translation, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. She has work published or forthcoming in Ecokritike, the Slavic and Eastern European Journal, College Literature, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, and The Journal of Literature and Medicine. She currently sits on the advisory board for the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. She is writing a new project on World Literature and the Left.
Contributions: Peter Thomas
Peter D. Thomas is Professor and Head of Department in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony, and Marxism (Brill, 2009) and coeditor of Encountering Althusser: Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought (Bloomsbury, 2012) and In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (Brill, 2013). Thomas also serves as a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. His translations include Goodbye Mr Socialism (Antonio Negri), Philosophy in the Present (Badiou/Žižek), Marx’s Temporalities (Massimiliano Tomba), Workers and Capital (Mario Tronti), Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel (Domenico Losurdo), and A Failed Parricide (Roberto Finelli).
Contributions: Gavin Walker
Gavin Walker is Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His research and teaching focuses on contemporary theory in its intersections with global intellectual history, Continental philosophy and world literature, politics and aesthetics. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital (Duke University Press, 2016) and Marx et la politique du dehors (Lux Editeur, 2022), the editor of The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History (Duke University Press, 2019, with Naoki Sakai), The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68 (Verso, 2020), Foucault’s Late Politics, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press, Fall 2022), and ‘Ronsoˉno buntai (Hoˉsei University Press, 2023, with Yutaka Nagahara). A member of the editorial board of the Historical Materialism Book Series (Brill/Haymarket) and positions: asia critique (Duke University Press), he is also the editor and translator of Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Verso, 2020). His new book, The Rarity of Politics: Passages from Structure to Subject, is forthcoming from Verso.
Contributions: Naomi Waltham-Smith
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. She works at the intersection of sound and music studies with deconstruction, decolonial theory, and Black radical thought, focusing on the politics of listening. She is the author of Music and Belonging between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 2017), Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021), Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Free Listening (Nebraska University Press, 2024).
Contributions: Gary Wilder
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the PhD Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.
