Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine.
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He has translated several books by Derrida and is coeditor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series, as well as author of many books on philosophical, literary, and theoretical topics.
David Wills is professor of French and comparative literature at Brown University. He is the translator of several works by Derrida and author of Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics and Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life, both from Minnesota.
