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ansgar allen salah el moncef works at the intersections of education, philos- is Reader in English and Creative Writing at the ophy, and literary theory. He is the author of University of Nantes, France. He is the author several books including Benign Violence (Pal- of Atopian Limits (Lang, 2002), The Offering grave Macmillan, 2014), The Cynical Educator (Penelope, 2015), and Literature as Antidote (Mayfly, 2017), and Cynicism (MIT P, 2019). (Lifescience Global, 2016). His short fiction, Together with Emile Bojesen he edits Risking focused largely on the Arab diaspora experience, Education, an imprint of Punctum Books, for has been published in numerous British and which they are co-authoring a book, The Maso- American magazines and anthologies. He is a chistic Inheritance. recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship (1988– 93) and the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Humanities. stephanie belmer teaches Philosophy and Humanities at Vanier david kelman College in Montreal, Quebec. Her primary fields of interest are modern and contemporary is Associate Professor of English and compara- art, critical theory, and social and political phil- tive literature at California State University, osophy. She completed a dissertation on the Fullerton. He is the author of Counterfeit Poli- intersection between Ethics