Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has published about fifteen books on Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, psychoanalysis and literary theory. His most recent books include The Ghosts of Modernity, (University of Florida Press, 1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (Cambridge UP, 2001) and Jacques Lacan and Literature (Palgrave, 2001). He has recently edited two collections of essays, Writing the Image after Roland Barthes, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Jacques Lacan in America (The Other Press, Fall 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan. (2002) and The Future of Theory (Blackwell, 2002). Recent publications: (2003 Cambridge) Companion to Lacan, editor, 2003 On the diagram: the art of Marjorie Welish, co-edited with Aaron Levy, (2004 Palgrave) Advances to James Joyce, editor, 2004 Architecture Against death: On Arakwa and Gins, two volumes, editor, and 2005 Logiques du Mensonge, Calmann- Levy. Most recent publications William Anastasi’s Pataphysical Society, co-edited, Slought, 2005, Companion pour Jacques Lacan, Bayard, 2005., Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime, Sussex University Press, 2006, Helene Cixous--On Cities, co-edited, Slought, 2006, Lacan Literario, Siglo 21, 2007,1913: The cradle of modernism, Blackwell, July 2007. Forthcoming: The Ethic of the Lie, The Other Press, 2008.