About the Author

Fran ois Cusset is Professor of American Studies at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Fran ois Cusset is a writer and intellectual historian. A specialist in contemporary intellectual and political history, he is the author of French Theory- How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States and The Inverted Gaze- Queering the French Literary Classics in America.