Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
lectures at Kingâs University College (uwo) in Canada, for the departments of philosophy and social justice & peace studies (which includes the gender, sexuality, and womenâs studies program). She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Camus Studies, treasurer for and a founding member of The North American Society for Early Phenomenology (nasep) and scientific advisory board member for the new journal of nasep â Phenomenological Investigations. Her current research in phenomenology investigates the ontology of negation, and in other projects she is exploring the relationship between social justice and art/artists. Her current list of interests include: tattoo culture and history, women of Dadaism, art of the avant-garde and anti-art movements, and the philosophical works of Adolf Reinach, Johannes, Daubert, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Günter Anders. She has published several articles and chapters on the phenomenology of Adolf Reinach, and a variety of printed pieces on the absurd and Albert Camus. E-mail: kbaltzer@uwo.ca.
Sophie Bastien
is Full Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada (in Kingston, Ontario). She edited the issue entitled La Scène surréaliste in LâAnnuaire théâtral (59, 2016), and co-edited three collections of essays: Camus, lâartiste (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015), Le Surréalisme et les arts du spectacle (Lausanne, LâÃge dâhomme, 2014), and La Passion du théâtre. Camus à la scène (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2011). Her monograph Caligula et Camus. Interférences transhistoriques won in 2007 the Association of Canadian University French Professors Award. She published some sixty articles and chapters, co-organized several multidisciplinary conferences, and was the president of the Société québécoise dâétudes théâtrales (sqet) from 2015 to 2018. E-mail: sophie.bastien@rmc.ca.
Bruce Baugh
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, British Columbia). His most recent book is Philosophersâ Walks (Routledge, 2021). Previous books include French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism (Routledge, 2003) and his translation of Benjamin Fondaneâs Existential Monday. Philosophical Essays (nyrb Classics, 2016). He has published numerous articles on philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Benjamin Fondane, Jacques Derrida, Hegel,
Eric B. Berg
holds a Masters degree from Luther Seminary, St. Paul Minnesota, a Doctorate from the University of Kansas and a two time research fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. He is currently a member of the philosophy faculty at Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota, and the author and manager of the podcast Albert Camus Radio. E-mail: Eric.berg@bemidjistate.edu.
Matthew Bowker
is a professor in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program at suny, University at Buffalo. He is the author of numerous books and essays on psychoanalytic political theory including Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity (Routledge). E-mail: mhbowker@buffalo.edu.
Craig DeLancey
is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Oswego. His publications include Passionate Engines (Oxford University Press) and Consciousness as Complete Event (Routledge). E-mail: craig.delancey@oswego .edu.
Meaghan Emery
Associate Professor of French at the University of Vermont, specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and culture with a particular focus on intellectual resistance and collaboration during the Second World War, decolonization, and contemporary French narrative. Her book The Algerian War Retold: Of Camusâs Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation (Routledge, 2020), focuses on the legacy of Albert Camus and the philosophical paradigms of resistance and revolution used by contemporary authors and filmmakers when speaking about the still controversial and hitherto state-censored events of the Algerian War. Her scholarly articles have been published in the Athenaeum Review, Contemporary French Civilization, Fiction and Film for Scholars of France, French Cultural Studies, French Historical Studies, H-France Salon, and the Journal of Camus Studies. She is currently working on a new monograph, which focuses on the erotic subject in postcolonial literature and contemporary works from the Francophone world. E-mail: Meaghan .Emery@uvm.edu.
is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Victor Valley College, where he is the chairperson of the English Department. He is the editor of the Journal of Camus Studies and has published widely on Camus and Lord Byron. He is currently working on monograph on the topic of Camus and empathy (for Brill), and when he is not researching or writing, he enjoys learning to play the piano and viola, as well as spending time with his children and his partner Julia whilst they discuss the intersections of art, politics, history and philosophy. E-mail: peter.francev@vvc.edu.
George Heffernan
is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College in Massachusetts. He received his B.A. and M.A. from The Catholic University of America and his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. He specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism, and concentrates on evidence, understanding, and meaning. His publications include Bedeutung und Evidenz bei Edmund Husserl (Bouvier, 1983), Isagoge in die phänomenologische Apophantik (Kluwer, 1989), René Descartes: Regulae ad directionem ingenii/Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence: A Bilingual Edition of the Cartesian Treatise on Method (Rodopi, 1998/Brill, 2014), âA Tale of Two Schisms: Heideggerâs Critique of Husserlâs Move into Transcendental Idealismâ, in The European Legacy (2016), âCamus and Husserl and the Phenomenologistsâ, in Brillâs Companion to Camus: Camus among the Philosophers (Brill, 2020), and âPhenomenology, Psychology, and Ideology: A New Look at the Life and Work of Else Voigtländerâ, in Phenomenological Investigations 1 (2021). His research has been supported by the Basselin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Order of Saint Augustine. He is completing an edition of Augustineâs Contra Academicos vel De Academicis/Against the Academics or On the Academics that addresses the perennial issues raised by Hellenistic skepticism, revised by Cartesian rationalism, and revisited by contemporary epistemology. E-mail: heffernang@merrimack.edu.
Maciej KaÅuża
is Lecturer at Cracow University of Economics. Author of two books on Camusâs philosophy and co-editor of two collections of essays: From the Absurd to Revolt: Dynamics in Albert Camusâs Thought (Jagiellonian University Press, 2017) and Brillâs Companion to Camus: Camus among the Philosophers (Brill, 2020). He is the founder and President of the Polish Albert Camus Society and on the editorial board of the Journal of Camus Studies. E-mail: kaluzam@uek.krakow.pl.
teaches Philosophy and History. MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge (UK), Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence) and Ph.D. in Political Thought. Theory and History at the Università degli Studi di Torino, she edited Albert Camus-Nicola Chiaromonte, Correspondance (1945â59) (Gallimard, 2019) and co-edited volumes i and iii of the new Pléiade edition of Albert Camusâs Åuvres 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 various articles in French, Italian and English on Albert Camusâs ethical and political thought. E-mail: novellos@yahoo.com.