Réda Bensmaïa

Réda Bensmaïa, who was raised in Algeria, has published numerous articles on Francophone and film theory. He is currently professor of French and comparative literature at Brown University. He is the author of The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text and the editor of Gilles Deleuze.. Tom Conley is professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographical Writing in Early Modern France and Film Hieroglyphs, and has translated a number of books, including Gilles Deleuze's The Fold.