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Ronald Aronson

has taught at Wayne State University since 1968. He is now Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas in the Department of History. Winner of several scholarly and teaching awards at Wayne State, Aronson is the past president of its Academy of Scholars. Being the author or editor of nine books, Aronson is an internationally recognized authority on Jean-Paul Sartre, focusing above all on the process of Sartre’s transformation to a political thinker and activist. He has been Chair of the Sartre Society of North America and founding editor of the journal Sartre Studies International. His books Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It (Chicago, 2004) and After Marxism (Guilford, 1995) definitely make him one of the best experts on the complex relations between Camus and Marxist existentialism.

Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray

teaches philosophy, women’s studies, and courses for the social justice and peace studies program at King’s University College, Canada. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Camus Studies, president of The North American Society For Early Phenomenology (nasep). Her current research includes a large project that focuses on Munich phenomenology with a particular focus on Theodor Lipps’ phenomenology and the influence it had on Reinach and Johannes Daubert. Her interests also include the Existential philosophies of Benjamin Fondane and Albert Camus, Dadism, and tattoo aesthetics and history.

Sophie Bastien

is a Professor and lecturer at Royal Military College of Canada. She is an expert on 20th-century French literature: the dramatic and narrative genres and the Surrealist and Absurdist movements. Her excellent book, Caligula et Camus. Interférences transhistoriques won in 2007 the Canadian Association of University French Professors Award. She has also served as co-editor for two collections of essays, dedicated to Camus: La Passion du théâtre. Camus à la scène (2011) and Camus, l’artiste (2015). She also is an active member of significant professional associations, and was the president of the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (sqet) from 2015 to 2018.

Eric Berg

is Professor of philosophy and religion at MacMurray College, and is the editor for Protestant theology and doctrine at the scholarly journal, Religious Studies Review. He is also in charge of the book review section of the Journal of Camus Studies. He has authored numerous articles on Camus’s complex relationship with Christianity and faith. His excellent knowledge of Søren Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Dietrich Bonhoeffer has also led to a much better understanding of these interactions.

Matthew H. Bowker

is the author of several books in psychoanalytic political theory, including Misinterest: Essays, Pensées, and Dreams (Punctum Books, Forthcoming, 2019), A Dangerous Place to Be: Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education (with D.P. Levine, Routledge, 2018), D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Self and Society in Transition (with A.L. Buzby, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and The Abandonment of the Self (Routledge, 2016), Escargotesque, or, What is Experience? (Punctum Books, 2015), Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence (Routledge, 2014), Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing (Punctum Books, 2012).

Peter Dunwoodie

is Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of numerous important contributions to the understanding of Albert Camus’ work, notably in relationship to Camus’ French-Algerian heritage, colonialism, and the Algerian conflict. His current research includes contributions to the ‘Encyclopedie de la colonisation francaise’ (Paris); and a chapter on ‘Camus 1944–’48’ (rlm, Paris).

Thomas Epstein

is an Associate Professor in the Arts and Science Honors Program and Slavic Department at Boston College. Epstein is a specialist in Russian modernism and postmodernism with a longstanding history of research into Franco-Russian intercultural exchange. He has published several articles on Camus and the Russians, alongside translations of contemporary Russian poetry.

Peter Francev

is a Lecturer at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where he teaches courses in literature and Albert Camus’s thought. He is President of the Albert Camus Society of the usa and editor of the Journal of Camus Studies. His research interests include: phenomenology, Existentialism, the poetry of Lord Byron and, of course, Albert Camus. His current projects include monographs on the Sublime in Byron’s poetry, the philosophical influences in The Myth of Sisyphus, and Edith Stein and Camus on empathy. When he is not grading, teaching, or researching, he loves to spend time with his three favorite people: Jennifer, Katie, and Michael.

Patrick Hayden

is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. His most recent books are Camus and the Challenge of Political Thought: Between Despair and Hope (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Recognition and Global Politics (with Kate Schick, Manchester University Press, 2016), and Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts (Routledge, 2014).

George Heffernan

is a specialist in phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism and has presented numerous papers at scholarly conferences, including the World Congress of Philosophy, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the American Philosophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Husserl Circle, the Albert Camus Society, the Gabriel Marcel Society, the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, and the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations. He is also the author of numerous monographs in peer-reviewed venues, including: Phaenomenologica, Husserl Studies, the New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Studia phaenomenologica, Analecta Husserliana, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology, The European Legacy, the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, the Journal of Camus Studies, Marcel Studies, and the International Journal of the Humanities. His research in Camus studies has significantly developed the knowledge on the relationship between Camus and the phenomenological movement; he is also an expert in the complexities of Camus’s connection with existentialism.

Maciej Kałuża

is a lecturer at Pedagogical University in Cracow and the founder of Polish Albert Camus Society. He authored two books focused on the philosophical complexities of the Camusian notions of the absurd and the revolt (2016, 2017). He was also the editor for an international collection From Absurd to Revolt. Dynamics in Albert Camus’s thought (2017). He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on Camus’s philosophical attitude and studied the importance of his literary and dramatical works for a better comprehension of his essays.

Marguerite La Caze

is Associate Professor in philosophy at the University of Queensland. Her publications include Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence: The Grieving and the Unrepentant (Lexington, 2018), Wonder and Generosity: Their Role in Ethics and Politics (suny, 2013), The Analytic Imaginary (Cornell, 2002), Integrity and the Fragile Self, with Damian Cox and Michael Levine (Ashgate, 2003), the edited collections Phenomenology and Forgiveness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), and On What Cannot be Touched: Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch, with Magdalena Zolkos (forthcoming, Lexington, 2019).

Simon Lea

studies Political Philosophy, Albert Camus, and Absurdism. President and co-founder of the Albert Camus Society. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the literature and philosophical thought of Albert Camus.

Samantha Novello

is Research Fellow of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy. Co-editor of volumes i and iii of the new Pléiade edition of Albert Camus’s Œuvres complètes (Gallimard, 2006 and 2008), she is the author of Albert Camus as Political Thinker. Nihilisms and the Politics of Contempt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and of numerous articles in French, Italian and English on Camus’s ethical and political thought. She edited Albert Camus-Nicola Chiaromonte. Correspondance (1945–59) (Gallimard, 2019).

Mark Orme

is Principal Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. His research interests embrace aspects of Contemporary France, with particular reference to French Existentialism. He is the author of The Development of Albert Camus’s Concern for Social and Political Justice: ‘Justice pour un juste’ (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007); co-editor of Albert Camus in the 21st Century: A Reassessment of his Thinking at the Dawn of the New Millennium (Rodopi, 2008); and co-editor of La passion du théâtre: Camus à la scène (Rodopi, 2011).

Matthew Sharpe

teaches philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015; paperback, 2016). Sharpe works at present on philosophy as a way of life, the philosophical bases of the re-emergent Far Right, and recovering the French enlightenment philosophes from layers of postmodern and reactionary obfuscation.

David Sprintzen

is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University. He is also the co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University and served as its Co-Director for seven years. Professor Sprintzen authored four books: Camus: A Critical Examination, Sartre and Camus: An Historic Confrontation, The Drama of Thought: an inquiry into the place of philosophy in human experience, and, most recently, Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory. His in-depth studies of Camus’s philosophical works as well as his excellent knowledge on the famous Sartre/Camus confrontation make him one most renowned scholars in the English-speaking Camusian circles.

Ronald Srigley

is a writer and academic. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and L’Obs, as well as in scholarly journals. He teaches philosophy and religious studies at Laurentian University and in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Humber College, Toronto. He is author of Albert Camus’s Critique of Modernity, Eric Voegelin’s Platonic Theology, and translator of Albert Camus’s Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism.

Michael Ure

is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Therapy (Lexington 2008), Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (Cambridge University Press 2019) and many essays in the history of philosophy and political theory. He is working also on the history of philosophy as a way of life in Western thought.

Grace Whistler

is a post-doctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at rmc Canada. She recently received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of York. Her doctoral thesis: Between Content and Form: Camus’ Literary Ethics reassess the writings of Albert Camus in relation to current debates at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics, examining how Camus’ use of literary styles can offer alternative ways of communicating philosophical content. She is also an author of many articles on Camus, developing the importance of narrative and style in understanding of Camus’s philosophical themes.

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