Julia Kristeva is an internationally known psychoanalyst and critic and is professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII. She is the author of many highly regarded books published by Columbia in translation, including Hannah Arendt, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense,and The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt.
Beverley Bie Brahic is an award-winning Canadian poet and translator. She has published two collections of poetry, and translations of French writers, including Apollinaire, Francis Ponge and H�l�ne Cixous.