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william s. allen shannon finck is an independent researcher at the University of is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Univer- Southampton, and the author of Ellipsis: Of sity of West Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in Poetry and the Experience of Language after Twentieth-Century American Literature with a Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot (State U secondary emphasis on Transnational Contem- of New York P, 2007) and Aesthetics of Nega- porary Literatures at Georgia State University tivity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy in 2014. She also holds an M.F.A. in Creative (Fordham UP, 2016), as well as articles on Nonfiction from Georgia College in Flannery Walter Benjamin, Raymond Roussel, and Belá O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, GA. Tarr. He is currently finishing a book-length She has published both critical and creative essay entitled Sade’s Critique of Reason. work in such journals as a/b: Autobiography Studies, LIT Literature Interpretation Theory, FUGUE, and the Journal of Modern Litera- peter buse ture. Currently, she serves as Social Media is Associate Dean for Research, Arts and Social Chair of the Society for Contemporary Litera- Sciences, University of Kingston, London. He is ture. Recent teaching and research interests author, most recently, of The Camera Does the include: