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elissa marder is a professor of French and comparative literature at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the departments of philosophy and women’s gender and sexuality studies. Her publications include Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford University Press, 2001) and The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction (Fordham University Press, 2012). She coedited with E. S. Burt and Kevin Newmark Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), a special issue of Yale French Studies (2014), and edited Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions for Paragraph (2017). She is currently working on several new projects, including a book tentatively titled “Poetry by Other Means: Baudelaire’s Photographic Poetics.” Recent essays related to that book have been published in differences, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Yale French Studies.