James MartellJames Martell is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Lyon College, USA. He is the author of Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother's Son (2019) and Beckett and Derrida (2024). He is the c-editor of Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (2013), Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures (2021), and Beckett and Nature (2025). His two current book projects are called Thinking Surfaces in French Contemporary Thought and Foiled Reflections: Philosophy, Literature, and Psychoanalysis during Stupid Times. Read More Read Less