The Necessity of Universalism

neil, lazarus is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), he is currently completing work on a new book, Hating Tradition Properly.

steven evans, a graduate student at Brown University, is currently taking advantage of an neh grant to complete his dissertation on avant-garde poetic formations.

anthony arnove is a graduate student at Brown University, studying modern culture and media.

anne menke is Assistant Professor of French at Swarthmore College. She is the co-editor, with Alice Jardine, of Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France. She is completing a book entitled Bagatelles Sexuelles: Musings on Minor Works of the Grand Siecle.