About the Author

Lionel Ruffel is a literary scholar, publisher, and author. Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Paris 8, he is the founding director of the creative writing program there. His recent projects include organizing (together with artist Kader Attia) "Theory Now" at La Colonie (Paris), "The Publishing Sphere" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and "Radio Brouhaha" at Centre Pompidou (Paris). He is the author of four monographs- Le Denouement, Volodine post-exotique, Brouhaha- Worlds of the Contemporary, Trompe-la-mort.