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Jaume Aurell is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Navarra (Spain). His publications include Historians’ Autobiography as Historiographical Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2025); 30 Great Books That Made History: A Global Canon (Polity, 2025); What is a Classic in History: The Making of a Historical Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (Routledge, 2016); and Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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François Dosse is a professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Est Créteil (Paris 12) and, since 1998, an associate researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle de l’université de Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has been a member of the editorial board of Raison Présente since 1996, a collaborator of O Olho da Historia: Revista de Historia Contemporanea since 1999, and a member of the scientific committee of Historia y Grafia since 2000. His publications include Michel Serres: La joie de savoir (2024), Les vérités du roman: Une histoire du temps présent (2023), Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: Biographie croisée (2007), and Histoire du structuralisme, 2 vol. (1991–1992).

Patrick ffrench is Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London. He is the author of five books: The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1996); The Cut: Reading Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’œil (2000); After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (2007); Thinking Cinema with Proust (2018) and Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism, Poetics (2019). He is co-editor, with Roland François Lack, of The Tel Quel Reader (1998) and, with Ian James, of Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (2005). With Nigel Saint he has coedited and cotranslated Psychopathologies of the Body: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida (2025). 

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Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University and the current chair of the History Department. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press, 2013), Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and The War on Gender: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She graduated from Brown University with a BA in History and Modern Culture & Media and obtained her PhD in History from Cornell University. 

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