About the Author

Hélène Cixous was the cofounder of Paris VIII University where she set up the first ever women's studies PhD programme in Europe. She is a novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic and philosopher best known for her creation of 'écriture féminine', a 'feminine' mode of writing. Lara Stevens holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Melbourne and was the Hugh Williamson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne in 2014. She is the author of Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical aesthetics in the twenty-first century (Palgrave Macmillan).