ANDRÉ BENHAÏM (Ph.D., Emory U.) is an Assistant Professor of French specializing primarily in 20th-century French Literature, and in Francophone Literature, especially from North Africa and the Mediterranean.  His main research areas include questions of identity, memory, and aesthetics, with a particular focus on judeity.  His most recent publication is Panim. Visages de Proust (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2006). He has published articles on Marcel Proust (many of them comparative: Proust and Sartre, H.G. Wells, Baudelaire, Levinas, Brassaï…), Albert Cohen, and Emile Zola.  Benhaim was the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Revue des Sciences Humaines entitled “Petits coins. Lieux de Mémoire” (2001), and published Ecrivains de la Préhistoire (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004), a collection of studies on the presence of Prehistory in modern French literature, culture and thought. His current project is a book on the Mediterranean.