Pascale-Anne Brault

Pascale-Anne Brault is the French translator of Barbara Cassin’s Nostalgia: When Are We Ever Home? (Fordham University Press), for which she received the Grand Prize French Voices Award from the Pen American Center. She is also the co-translator with Michael Naas of twelve books by philosophers Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Lyotard, which have appeared with Indiana UP, University of Chicago Press, Fordham University Press and Stanford University Press. She is the co-editor of three volumes of translations: Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning (UCP); Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde (Galilée) and Jacques Derrida in Strasbourg (Fordham UP). Professor Brault is one of six members of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project (DSTP), a 20-year endeavor that will see the publication with the University of Chicago Press of twenty volumes of the Derrida seminars covering 1983-2003. For that project, she has just published the French edition of La vie la mort (Seuil). Her co-translation of that book is scheduled for Spring 2020 (UCP). She is currently editing a new Derrida seminar entitled Hostipitalité.