Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.
Laura Vanesa Vazquez Hutnik es investigadora, crítica y docente. Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) e investigadora del CONICET. Es Profesora de “Historia de los Medios de Comunicación Nacional y Latinoamericana”, en la Universidad Nacional de Moreno. En la Carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la UBA coordina el Área de Narrativas Dibujadas. Realizó su Postdoctorado en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA). Se desempeña como docente en la Maestría de Crítica y Difusión de las Artes, en el UNA. Ha sido invitada como expositora en congresos nacionales e internacionales. Publicó los libros: El oficio de las viñetas. La industria de la historieta argentina (Paidós, 2010) y Fuera de Cuadro. Ideas sobre hi
Alysia Abbott's debut book, Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father (W.W. Norton) was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and an O, The Oprah Magazine pick for summer 2013. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Real Simple, Slate, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, and Psychology Today, among other publications.
Alysia grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott. After he died, she relocated to New York City, where she worked at the New York Public Library and received an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University.
In 2009 she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives today with her husband and two children.
Jean Echenoz is a prominent French novelist, many of whose works have been translated into English, among them Chopin’s Move (1989), Big Blondes (1995), and most recently Ravel (2008) and Running (2009).
Fatima Daas was born in 1995 and grew up in Clichy-sous-Bois, France, where her parents settled after arriving from Algeria. In high school Daas participated in writing workshops led by Tanguy Viel. Influenced by Marguerite Duras and Virginie Despentes, she defines herself as an intersectional feminist. Her debut novel, The Last One, has sold more than thirty-five thousand copies in France and will be translated into ten languages.
Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Joan Nestle writes and edits essays, erotic fiction, poetry, and short stories. She is an activist, and among many actions has co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives to preserve records of lesbian lives and communities and currently coordinates the Women in Black protests against Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
Brontez Purnell is an Oakland-based writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down, and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.
Docteur en philosophie et diplômée de Brown Univesity, Anne Dufourmantelle a enseigné à l’école d’architecture UP6-la Villette, et donné un séminaire à l’Institut des Hautes Etudes en Psychanalyse à l’Ecole normale supérieure. Anne Dufourmantelle meurt le 21 juillet 2017 en tentant de sauver l'enfant d'une amie de la noyade sur une plage du sud de la France.
Elene Usdin est une photographe et illustratrice française, née en 1971.
Elene Usdin sort de l'École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris en 1996. Elle devient illustratrice pour la presse et l’édition (Elle, Télérama, Éditions du Seuil, Actes Sud). Depuis 2004, elle crée des affiches pour l'Opéra national du Rhin.
Antonia Kühn, geboren 1979, studierte in Kiel Kommunikationsdesign und Illustration an der HAW Hamburg. Antonia Kühn lebt in Hamburg, wo sie als freie Illustratorin und Comicautorin arbeitet. Ihre Arbeiten wurden mehrfach am Internationalen Comix-Festival FUMETTO in Luzern und am Comicfestival Hamburg ausgestellt.
Valentina Tanni is an italian art historian, curator and lecturer. Her research focuses on the relationship between art and technology, with a particular focus on internet culture. She is adjunct professor of "Digital Art" at Politecnico University in Milan and lecturer of the course "Culture Digitali" (Digital Cultures) at NABA. Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.
Helen Zahavi is a British novelist who worked as a Russian-English translator before becoming a writer.
Her first novel, Dirty Weekend (1991), is about a young woman who is tormented by a predatory neighbour until she finally has enough. So with a smile on her lips and a gun in her hand she goes out in the night and kills seven perverts in two days.
The book caused a media storm on publication and critical reaction was extreme and polarised. A half-page article in The Sunday Times questioning the book's morality and the author's sanity set the tone for much of the press comment that followed. The novel was attacked by Salman Rushdie, defended by Naomi Wolf, and analysed at length in both the broadsheet and popular press.
Née à Sofia (Bulgarie) en 1982, Elitza Gueorguieva vit depuis quinze ans à Paris. Après l'obtention d'un master de création cinématographique et d'un master de création littéraire à l'Université Paris-8 Saint-Denis, elle se consacre à des projets artistiques multiples entre le documentaire de création vidéo, l'écriture littéraire et les performances. Les cosmonautes ne font que passer est son premier roman.
