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Geetha Ganapathy-Doré is a Research Accredited Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, University of Sorbonne Paris Nord. She is the author of The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English (2011). She has coedited several books among which On the Move, The Journey of Refugees in New Literatures in English (2012), Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema (2017), published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and Global Commons, Issues, Concerns and Strategies (Sage, 2020). Comme la pluie qui tombe sur la terre rouge is the title of her translation of some ancient Tamil poems (Po&Psy, 2016). She has co-edited an issue on "Reinventing the Sea" for Angles (2019) and two issues on "Rewriting History" for Pondicherry University's International Journal of South Asian Studies (2020). Her introduction to and translation of some of Debasish Lahiri's English poems Paysages sans verbs has just come out (APIC, 2021).

Claire Larsonneur is Senior Lecturer at University Paris 8, within the research unit TransCrit. Her fields of interest include Contemporary British Literature, Translation Studies and Digital Humanities. Between 2012 and 2015 she has co-chaired with Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Arnaud Regnauld, an international research project, The Digital Subject, funded by Labex Arts H2H, which led to the publication of The Digital Subject (Presses du réel, 2015 for the French version, 2017 for the English version). Then she co-organised the 2016 Cerisy seminar on the Posthuman which led to the publication of Subjectivités numériques et posthumain, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2020) and she guest-edited the special issue of Angles on Digital Subjectivities (2018).

Dr. Robin Hammerman is an Associate Professor of Literature and Communications at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where she teaches courses on the intersections of science, technology, and literature. Hammerman organized the international Romantic Bicentennials conference Technologies of Frankenstein in 2018, and she organized the first scholarly, international conference devoted to Ada Lovelace in 2013. She is the editor of Frankenstein and STEAM (forthcoming Delaware UP, 2021), Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age (co-edited with Andrew Russell, ACM Books, 2015), and Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).

Dr. Anthony P. Pennino is an Associate Professor of Literature, Theatre, and Film Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ where he teaches an array of courses in literature, theatre, film, and cultural studies. He is the author of the monograph Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: “The History We Haven’t Had” (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018). His current research project investigates reconsidering Shakespeare for the 21st century through the lens of James Baldwin. He is the 2019 recipient of the Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence. He served as a senior lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey through the Fulbright Scholars Program. He was the PI for a sub-project grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s for its Reinventing Civil Defense project. He has been twice awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey Council of the Arts. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of London.

Jana Thompson is currently a grad uate student in design at Maryland Institute College of Art, holds an MA in Germanic Studies, BS in mathematics, and BA in anthropology from the Univers ity of Texas at Austin, and has held fellowships in cultural studies in Berlin and data science in San Francisco. She was until August 2020 a member of Los Angeles- based Feminist.AI, where she created workshops on s ocio- technical approaches to AI and developed AI approaches to XR and mental health. Recent events have included Embodied Ethnography: Posthuman and Cultural Approaches at Vienna Anthropology Days 2020, a workshop on Cultural AI design at IxDA 2020 in Milan, and a poster presentation on Feminist.AI project Contextual Normalcy at the Frontiers of AI in Health Care Symposium, held at Stanford University in Fall 2019.

Louis Rouillé est entré à l’école normale supérieure rue d’Ulm en 2012 par le concours A/L option philosophie, apres des années de prépas scientifique (MPSI) puis littéraire (HK/KH) à Rennes. Durant sa scolarité à l’ENS, il a obtenu un master de logique à Paris 1 (LoPhiSC) en 2014, le master de sciences cognitives ENS/EHESS/P5 (Cogmaster) en 2016, ainsi que l’agrégation de philosophie en 2015. Il se passionne très vite pour les questions théoriques sur la fiction. Après avoir consacré deux Masters recherche sur des problèmes logiques et linguistiques liés a la notion de fiction, il prépare une thèse de philosophie sur la fiction à l’ENS, sous la direction de François Recanati et Paul Égré à l’institut Jean Nicod. Sa thèse, débutée en septembre 2016 et soutenue en décembre 2019, s’intitule “Disagreeing about fiction”. Il contribue dans cette thèse a des débats contemporains sur la vérité dans la fiction, les desaccords fictionnels et la référence dans la fiction. Les résultats de ses travaux de recherches doctorales font l’objet de publications a venir ou en cours. Il travaille notamment avec Guillaume Schuppert a une traduction de Mimesis as Make-Believe de Kendall Walton(Harvard University Press), editrice du projet: Françoise Lavocat. Louis Rouillé est depuis janvier 2020 professeur de philosophie a Rouen, au lycée Blaise Pascal, et il enseigne la logique a l’université Paris-Ouest Nanterre.