Fighting Theory

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she codirects the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. She is also Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing; The Telephone Book; Crack Wars; Finitude’s Score; Stupidity; and The Test Drive.Anne Dufourmantelle is the author of Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy and (with Jacques Derrida) Of Hospitality.Catherine Porter is a professor emerita of French, SUNY, Cortland, and a former president of the Modern Language Association.