Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Her work on Derrida includes “Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/Continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come,” Derrida Today 3 (2010): 240–68. She is currently completing a book project entitled Infinity, Nothingness, and Justice-to-Come.
Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham. His latest books are The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer (Edinburgh University Press, 2005); The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books on literary theory, literary history, gender theory, queer theory, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and posthumanism. She has recently completed a book on fragility and is now working on a book concerning the outside of thinking.
Matthias Fritsch is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal. His research interests are social, political, and moral philosophy (in particular, democratic theory and Marxism), as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy (especially German critical theory and deconstruction). He has published a monograph, The Promise of Memory (SUNY Press, 2006), and a range of articles in scholarly journals, has coedited two anthologies, and has translated authors such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas into English. He has been a Humboldt Fellow in Frankfurt and a Visiting Research Professor in Kyoto. At present, he is working on a book manuscript (for which he has been awarded federal Canadian funding) on intergenerational ethics. A second project develops a concept of deconstructive normativity in relation to metaethics, biopolitics, and environmental philosophy.
Vicki Kirby is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Books include Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Duke University Press, 2011); Judith Butler: Live Theory (Continuum, 2006); and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal (Routledge, 1997). She teaches and lectures regularly in Europe and the United States and was Erasmus Mundus Professor at Utrecht University in 2013. In 2015, she was Visiting Professor at the Winter School, Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern University. She has articles forthcoming in the journals Derrida Today, Parallax, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. The motivating question behind her research is the puzzle of the nature/culture, body/mind, matter/ideation division, because so many political and ethical decisions are configured in terms of this opposition and its cognates. Her particular interest is embodiment and matter, and she brings feminism and deconstruction into conversation in order to shift the terms of these inquiries.
John Llewelyn has been Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, Loyola University of Chicago, and Vanderbilt University. As well as translations and edited works, his publications include Beyond Metaphysics? (Prometheus, 1989); Derrida on the Threshold of Sense (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986); Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (Indiana University Press, 2002); The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991); Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics (Routledge, 1995); Seeing through God (Indiana University Press, 2004); Margins of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2008); The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity (Indiana University Press, 2012); and, most recently, from Edinburgh University Press, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus (2015). A semi-autobiographical volume by him, entitled Departing from Logic, has been published by Y Lolfa (2012).
Philippe Lynes earned his Ph.D. from Concordia University in Montreal, specializing in deconstruction, environmental philosophy, biopolitics, and ecolinguistics. In 2017–18, he will serve as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Lynes is also a translator of French philosophy, with a translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s Advances forthcoming in late 2017 with the University of Minnesota Press. His first monograph, General Ecology: Futures of Life Death on Earth, is currently under review, and he is now working on his second book, Dearth: Eco-Deconstruction after Speculative Realism, on Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger.
Michael Marder (michaelmarder.org) is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. A specialist in phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and political thought, he is the author or editor of twelve books. His most recent monographs include The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (Columbia University Press, 2014); Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015); Dust (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016); Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives, coauthored with Luce Irigaray (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Dawne McCance is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba and editor of the interdisciplinary critical journal Mosaic. She teaches and writes on the work of Jacques Derrida in such books as Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical (SUNY Press, 1996); Medusa’s Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L (SUNY Press, 2004); Derrida on Religion (Equinox, 2009); Sleights of Hand: Derrida Writing (Kalamalka Press, 2008); and Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction (SUNY Press, 2013); and in numerous published essays and book chapters.
Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He works in the areas of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary French Philosophy. His most recent books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar (Fordham University Press, 2014), and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (Fordham University Press, 2012). He is also the cotranslator of several works by Jacques Derrida, including The Other Heading (Indiana University Press, 1992); Memoirs of the Blind (University of Chicago Press, 1993); Adieu—to Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford University Press, 1999); Rogues (Stanford University Press, 2005); and Learning to Live Finally (Melville House, 2007). He also coedits the Oxford Literary Review.
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over one hundred articles, thirteen books, and ten edited volumes. Her authored books include, most recently, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape (Columbia University Press), forthcoming; Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions (Columbia University Press, 2015); Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2013); Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film (Columbia University Press, 2012); Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human (Columbia University Press, 2009); Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (Columbia University Press, 2007); The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression (University of Minnesota Press, 2004); and perhaps her best-known works, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), and Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). She has published in the New York Times and has been interviewed on ABC television news, various radio programs, and Canadian Broadcasting network. Her work has been translated into seven languages.
Michael Peterson is a graduate student at DePaul University, Chicago. He received an M.A. in Philosophy from Concordia University in 2014 and a B.A. Honors from the University of Alberta in 2011.
Ted Toadvine is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, where he served as Head of Philosophy from 2011 to 2014. He specializes in contemporary Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and recent French thought, and the philosophy of nature and environment. His current research interests include the philosophical significance of deep time, the eschatological imaginary of environmentalism, the relation between geomateriality and memory, and biodiacritics. He is author of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature (Northwestern University Press, 2009) and editor or translator of six books, including The Merleau-Ponty Reader (Northwestern University Press, 2007); Nature’s Edge (SUNY Press, 2007); and Eco-Phenomenology (SUNY Press, 2003). Toadvine directs the Series in Continental Thought at Ohio University Press, is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Philosophy, and is a coeditor of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. He is currently completing two manuscripts, Eschatology and the Elements and Diacritical Life: Animality and Memory, as well as coediting (with David Alexander Craig) a volume on Animality and Sovereignty: Reading Derrida’s Final Seminars.
Cary Wolfe’s books and edited collections include, most recently, What Is Posthumanism? (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He is Founding Editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, which publishes four books per year by noted authors such as Donna Haraway, Roberto Esposito, Isabelle Stengers, Michel Serres, Vilém Flusser, and many others. He currently holds the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University, where he is Founding Director of 3CT: The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory.
David Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches Continental and Environmental Philosophy. His published books include The Deconstruction of Time (Northwestern University Press, 2001); Thinking after Heidegger (Polity and Blackwell, 2002); The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (SUNY Press, 2005); and Time after Time (Indiana University Press, 2007). Reinhabiting the Earth and Deep Time are forthcoming with Fordham. He is also an earth artist and directs Yellow Bird Art Farm.