About Our Contributors

147 ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS LOUISE KASPER teaches in the French, Spanish and Italian Department of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She has presented papers at the 1991 Simone de Beauvoir Society international conference on “The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre” and at meetings of Canada’s Sociétés Savantes. She is currently teaching a graduate course on Simone de Beauvoir for the second time, and writes: “Je suis devenue une grande lectrice de Beauvoir, dont je trouve l’oeuvre si riche et complexe qu’elle offre une mine d’or à l’exploration critique.” TERRY KEEFE is Head of the Department of Modern Languages at Lancaster University in England and has published extensively on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. His 1983 book entitled Simone de Beauvoir. A Study of Her Writings, written while he was a Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the University of Leicester, was one of the first to examine the fictional works in detail. Professor Keefe has recently published a number of articles on Beauvoir: “Another 'Silencing of Beauvoir’? Guess What’s Missing This Time” (French Studies Bulletin no. 50, spring 1994); “Terry Keefe looks at the fate of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe” ( The Times Higher, March 26, 1993); and “Underestimating the Role of ‘Mauvaise Foi’ in Le Deuxième Sexe” (French Studies Bulletin, no. 44, autumn 1992). He is interested in the possibility of holding a major conference on Simone de Beauvoir in the United Kingdom in the near future. KENNETH KRAUSS teaches Drama at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York where he recently directed and acted in a successful production of Of Thee I Sing. He holds a B.A. with honours from Sussex University, Brighton, England, with a focus on English and Greek, an M.A. from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where his dissertation topic was “Playreaders’ Constructs of Theatre Audiences.” He has also studied at Kossuth University in Debrecen, Hungary. Professor Krauss has been a resident fellow for the Edward Albee Foundation, has received numerous grants, and spent the summer of 1994 in Paris continuing his research on French drama of the Occupation on a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. GUILLEMINE DE LACOSTE holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne. After doing research in Paris under a two-year Fulbright grant, she taught philosophy for a period of twenty years in the Boston area, at Newton College of the Sacred Heart and at Tufts University. Her courses focused on existentialism, on which she has published a number of articles. In the past few years she has become involved in an appraisal of Simone de Beauvoir’s ideas, influenced by the 1991 publication of Elisabeth Lacoin’s letters and journal. Her cousin is married to Vincent Lacoin, “Zaza’s” youngest brother. She has been an active participant in Modern Language Association sessions sponsored by the Beauvoir Society and in the two international conferences held in Palo Alto to date. - 148 - MARIA TERESA LOPEZ PARDINA received her Ph.D. in December 1992. Her thesis focused on “La hermenéutica existencial en Simone de Beauvoir.” She holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where she teaches philosophy at the Instituto de Bachillerato “Ignacio Ellacuna.” She is currently a member of a research seminar team studying “Feminism and Illustration” at the Universidad Complutense. Among her many articles is one on Michèle Le Doeffs criticism of The Second Sex, which appeared in Mujeres, published in Zaragoza, and one on the latest Beauvoir biographies, published in Isegoria in October 1992. ÂSA MOBERG is a journalist, painter and author of four novels who lives in Lima, Sweden, She recently organized a series of talks on Simone de Beauvoir that took place in Stockholm in the spring of 1994, speaking herself about “Truth and Lies” and including a talk by Society member Eva Lundgren-Gothlin on “Simone de Beauvoir and the Philosophy of Ambiguity.” She has written reviews of the Deirdre Bair biography and of Toril Moi’s recent Simone de Beauvoir The Making of an Intellectual Woman for the Social Democratic daily Aftonbladet and has also translated Les Mandarins into Swedish in collaboration with Adam Inczedy-Gombos. ANNE-MARIE OBAJTEK-KIRKWOOD completed a Ph.D. in Romance Languages in August 1992, working under Professor Gerald Prince at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation topic was “L’ ‘Occupation rêvée’ de P ‘autre vie* de Patrick Modiano” and her area of specialization the 20th century novel. She has taught French at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Drexel University, Inlingua (Haddonfield, New Jersey) and the Collège Jean Zay, in Lomme, France, and at the Coombe Girls’ School in New Maldem Surrey, England. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Final Year Dissertation Fellowship for the 1991-1992 academic year. YOLANDA ASTARITA PATTERSON is a founding member of the Simone de Beauvoir Society along with Professors Konrad Bieber and Jacques Zéphir, and has served as its president since 1983. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in French from Stanford University. She teaches French and Women’s Studies at California State University, Hayward, where she has received the Outstanding Professor of the Year award. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Demystification of Motherhood as well as of numerous articles about Beauvoir. Since 1990, she has spent every summer in Paris catching up on Beauvoir research, connecting with members of the Society, and teaching in a program for American students. CÉLINE PHILIBERT teaches French at Potsdam College, SUNY, where she served as head of the Department of Modern Languages from 1992 to 1993. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in French Literature from the Ohio State University, where her dissertation dealt with “The Postmodern Cinema, or Desire in Question.” She has a Licence in International Business from the Université de Dijon and is currently on a Drescher Leave to conduct research in Paris on “The Contemporary Cinema of Cruelty.” .

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