Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. His publications include Travel as Metaphor, Community at Loose Ends, A World of Fables, French Civilization and Its Discontents, and numerous articles on travel narrative, critical theory, and early modern French literature, as well as translations into English of Jean François Lyotard. His latest book, Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of Philosophy, is due out from Fordham University Press in Spring 2023.