Anca Cristofovici is Professor of American literature and art at the University of Caen, France and Director of the Center for Cultural Memory Studies (ERIBIA). Her latest book is Touching Surfaces: Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging (New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009). Her publications include essays on literature, visual thinking, poetry translations, exhibition catalogues, and fiction. Her work has been distinguished with a Rockefeller Fellowship.