THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF PARRHESIA
Alex Murray is lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Recalling London: Literature and History in the Work of Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair (Continuum), as well as numerous articles on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. He is currently completing a book on Giorgio Agamben for the Routledge Critical Thinkers series, as well as editing (with Justin Clemens and Nick Heron) a collection of essays on Agamben for Edinburgh UP entitled The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life.Arne De Boever is a PhD-candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. He studied German and English literature and linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and the Universität Leipzig (Germany) and holds an MA and MPhil from Columbia. He has published articles on Durs Grünbein, W.G. Sebald, and Giorgio Agamben and has written texts for the Transidency art and theory collective in Berlin. His dissertation is a study of the contemporary novel and the state of exception and traces the relations between literature, life, and politics in the aftermath of September 11.
Jon Roffe is the founding convenor of and lecturer at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004), and Deleuze's Heritage (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). In addition to these, his research interests also include early modern rationalism and empiricism, the philosophy of mathematics, the Lyotard/Lacan interface and the philosophy of the city. He is currently preparing a comparative study of Badiou and Deleuze.
Ashley Woodward is a founding member of and lecturer at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Queensland, a critical study of the concept of nihilism. His publications concern Lyotard, Vattimo, Baudrillard and Deleuze.
Matthew Sharpe teaches political philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University’s School of International and Political Studies. He is the author of Slavoj Zizek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), co-editor of Traversing The Fantasy (Ashgate, 2005) and of articles in political and critical theory in various venues, including Australian journals Arena, Borderlands, Australian Feminist Law Journal and Critical Horizons and international outlets such as Philosophy Today, Philosophy and Social Criticism, CTheory, Law and Critique and Political Theory. Dr Sharpe also teaches in the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. His current research is on new forms of political conservatism, its political and ideological positions, roots and progenitors. Dr Sharpe is an Associate Editor of Parrhesia, in charge of our yearly edition of pieces proceeding from the Australian Society of Continental Philosophy conference.
THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Max Deutscher
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie UniversityRobert Eaglestone
Professor, Royal Holloway, University of LondonMarguerite La Caze
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of QueenslandRussell Grigg
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Deakin UniversityDaniel W. Smith
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue UniversityMarion Tapper
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of MelbourneJames Williams
Professor of Philosophy, University of Dundee