Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

Christopher Langlois is Professor of English at Champlain College in Montreal. His research focuses on representations of violence and terror. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature (Edinburgh UP) and the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury), as well as essays in such venues as Twentieth-Century Literature, ariel, College Literature, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, and Irish Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP).

Matt Longabucco is a Clinical Professor in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, and an associate of Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking. Interests include modern and contemporary literature, poetry and poetics, critical theory, film, and composition. He is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and M/W, a book-length study of a film by the infleuntial director Jean Eustache. His second poetry collection, The Hummingbird, is forthcoming in 2026. 

Cosmin Toma teaches French-language literature at Champlain College – Saint-Lambert. He has mainly published on modern and contemporary French literature, critical theory, music, and aesthetics. He is the author of Neutraliser l'absolu. Blanchot, Beckett et la chose littéraire (Hermann, 2019) as well as of Maurice Blanchot au siècle de sa mort. Des espaces numériques et littéraires (Hermann, 2024). He is also the editor of Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2023).

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Greven specializes in both nineteenth-century American literature and Hollywood film. His books include All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence (University of Virginia Press, 2024), Intimate Violence: Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature (Routledge, 2016).

Saul Anton is Assoc. Professor CCE at the Pratt Institute. He is the author of Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (2015) and Warhol’s Dream (2007). He translated Jean-Luc Nancy, The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (2008). With a Ph.D. from Princeton, he works on literature and philosophy, aesthetics, and contemporary art and culture. His current projects: The Afterlives of Sovereignty: Ruins, Politics, and the Arts Before the French Revolution and a book-length essay on horror.

Madeleine Collier is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University. Her dissertation engages questions of body models and mimesis, anatomy and violence, and the speculative or autonomous care practices which supplement or countervail institutionalized medicine. Her most recent article, "You turn m/e inside out": Body Models Undone in The Lesbian Body" was published this year in The Journal of Lesbian Studies. 

Yi Sun is an M.A. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on translation theory and myth-ritual studies. Current projects include Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists, examining how Japanese aesthetics are translated and misread in a postcolonial context, and the reimagining of Steinbeck’s East of Eden in Japanese women’s workplace drama. More broadly, she is interested in how contemporary works transform mythic and ritual structures.

James Martel teaches political theory in the department of political science at San Francisco State University. His most recent book is "Anarchist Prophets: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight." (Duke, 2022). He is working on a new book under contract with Duke entitled "Continuous Assembly: The Promise of Non-Archism." 

James Martell is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Lyon College. He has written, edited, and co-edited works like Beckett and Derrida, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal; Tattooed Bodies; Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature; Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism, the upcoming Beckett and Nature, and currently is working on a monograph analyzing surfaces of thought and experience in 20th and 21st century French philosophy.

James McNaguhton is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. His latest book, Send in the Clowns! Popular Politics after Neoliberalism, co-written with Seán Kennedy, appeared from OR Books in 2025. His latest article is “Rubber Genocide in Joyce and Beckett: From Casement’s Congo to Vel d’hiv and Auschwitz,” and came out in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Print, 2025).

Maddalena Cerrato is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A&M University. She  published Michel Foucault’s Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes  with SUNY Press in 2025 and many articles about infrapolitics, nationalism, topology, and autography.

Eyal Bassan (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2017) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. His current research focuses on conceptualizations of neutrality, potentiality, amateurism, and various other forms of diminished activity in modern literature and literary theory. He is the author of Gnessin Style (2021) and, recently, of “Amateurism, Now: Roland Barthes and the Contemporary Stakes of the Amateur” in Stanford’s Dibur Literary Journal.

Jonathan Fardy is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at Idaho State University. His research examines the relation between aesthetics and politics. His recent work has been particularly focused on non-philosophy. He is the author of a number of books, including Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy; The Real Is Radical: Marx after Laruelle; and Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy. – all with Bloomsbury.