Notes on Contributors
Stephen Banks
is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Legal History at Reading University, England.
Robert W. Butler
is Joan and Lester Brune Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Elmhurst College.
Damian Catani
is Senior Lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and thought at Birkbeck College, London. He has published a number of articles and books in this area, the most recent of which Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) is inspired by a number of prominent French authors and thinkers ranging from Voltaire to Sartre.
Kanta Dihal
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is the Principal Investigator on the Global AI Narratives project, and is co-editor of the forthcoming collection AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Spiros Gangas
is Professor of Sociology at Deree – the American College of Greece. He is currently exploring synergies between ethics, the capability approach and sociological theory through the lens of suffering and evil.
Sarah Gendron
is Associate Professor of French at Marquette University. Gendron specializes in genocide studies, literary theory, and translation. Her publications include Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge, scholarly articles on genocide, and translations of works by Simone de Beauvoir and Frédéric Brun.
Sophia Kanaouti
is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and has a PhD in Media and Politics from Cardiff University. She has published in Political Theory and Media Studies and is currently preparing a book in English about Cultural Identity and the media.
Rallie Murray
is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also received her Master of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation. She currently works on prison abolition as a part of decolonization movements.
Sally Nadeau
is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studies Economics and French with an emphasis on the African economy. Working closely with Sarah Gendron and Jennifer Vanderheyden, Marquette University faculty, she received a fellowship from the Marquette Center for Peacemaking to complete her research in Kigali, Rwanda in June 2013.
Helen Patey
trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse therapist before completing graduate studies in philosophy and literature. Current work involves readying her doctoral dissertation for publication. It is entitled, Freedom Fighters: Existentialism and Violence in 20th Century American Narratives. She teaches in the departments of English and Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Cassie Pedersen
is a PhD candidate at Federation University, Australia. Her research takes place at the intersection between philosophy and trauma theory, where she is examining trauma and the limits of (re)presentation.
Regan Lance Reitsma
is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His interests are in meta-ethics, moral psychology, forgiveness, and moral rights.
Jennifer Vanderheyden
is an Assistant Professor of French at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She serves as faculty advisor to the student organization Step Up! (American Association for Rwandan Women). She is the author of The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot’s Works.