Sartre's second century

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SlMONE MULLER
Simone Muller is a Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Japanese
Studies at Zurich University, Switzerland. She focuses on Japanese
literature and history of ideas, and her publications include articles on
classical Japanese dream poetry and modern literary issues, such as the
writings of Serizawa Kqjird and Miyamoto Yuriko. She is currently
working on a postdoctoral thesis on the impact of Sartrean existentialism
on post-war Japanese literature and intellectual thought. Reflecting that
research, she has presented papers at various international conferences,
including those of the French, the UK, and the North American Sartre
Societies. Among her publications on Sartre are studies of his concept of
freedom in the writings of Noma Hiroshi, and of the influence of his
universalism in post-war Japan. Simone's latest article, considering the
impact of existentialism on the writings of Shiina Rinzo and 6e
Kenzaburo, is published in the German periodical Bochumer Jahrbuch zur
Ostasienforschung (Fall 2008).
BENEDICT O'DONOHOE
Ben O'Donohoe took his first degree in French and his doctorate at
Magdalen College, Oxford, and is now Head of Modern Languages at the
University of Sussex. He has published Sartre*s Theatre: Acts for Life
(Peter Lang, 2005) and a critical edition of Sartre's screenplay, Les Jeux
sontfaits (Routledge, 1990), plus a score of articles or chapters in the UK,
France, Canada, Japan, the USA and Australia. He has also given
numerous papers, notably around Sartre's centenary celebration in 2005,
to conferences in San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Bath,
Bristol, London, Leeds, Dublin and Paris. He is currently President of the
UK Sartre Society and UK-side Reviews Editor of the journal Sartre
Studies International
IANRHOAD
Ian Rhoad is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at the
New School for Social Research in New York City, and Adjunct Instructor
of Philosophy at St Johns University. He has presented numerous papers at
academic conferences, most recently a paper entitled "The Politics of
Spectacle" at the Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at Emory
University. His current research focuses on twentieth-century French
thought and the idea of democracy.