Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Paris X Nanterre.

Selected publications include: Counterpath: Travelling with Jacques Derrida (Stanford University Press, 2004), a collaborative work with Jacques Derrida, and The Future of Hegel: Placticity, Temporality, and Dialect (Routledge 2004). 

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.  

He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy’s Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance ( 2006). He also edited The Lyotard Reader(1989), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: the Work of Julia Kristeva(1990) and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (1993) and Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002).

Martin McQuillan  is Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis and Pro-Dean of Research for the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communication. He is Director of Critical Consciousness at the Centre of Cultural Theory and Analysis at the University of Leeds, UK.

Selected publications include: Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism, ed. Martin McQuillan, Graeme Macdonald, Robin Purves and Stephen Thomson, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999); Deconstructing Disney, (London: Pluto Press, 1999); Deconstruction: A Reader, ed. M. McQuillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000); Paul de Man (London: Routledge, 2001); Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction, ed. M. McQuillan (London: Palgrave, 2002); The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy, ed. M. McQuillan, (London: Pluto Press, 2007); The Origins of Deconstruction, ed. M. McQuillan and Ika Willis, (Clinamen Press: Manchester, 2007).