PRESIDENT
Dr Ben O'Donohoe
Ben is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director of its Language Institute. His research interests are in Existentialism, notably the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, but also that of Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. He has published a book on Sartre’s theatre and a critical edition of one of his screenplays, as well as a score of articles or chapters. Around the time of Sartre’s centenary he gave more than a dozen invited papers to conferences including the North American Sartre Society in San Francisco and New York, the Japanese Sartre Society in Tokyo, the Society for French Studies in Leeds, the EPTC in Toronto, the Groupe d’études sartriennes in Paris, and the UKSS in London. He is currently co-editing a book of essays on Sartre for the Cambridge Scholars’ Press. His recent publications include:
2007:
‘Sartre and Camus: Les Mouches and Le Malentendu : Parallel Plays’, Sartre Studies International, vol. 13, no. 2, 2007, pp. 113–125.
‘L’Étranger and the Messianic Myth, or Meursault Unmasked’, PhaenEx, e-journal of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) @ www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca , vol. 1, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 1–18.
‘Sartre en Grande Bretagne’, translated into Japanese in Harumi Ishizaki and Nao Sawada (eds), Sartre, penseur pour le XXIe siècle? Actes du colloque international, Tokyo, Editions Shichosha, 2007, pp.292–303 (+ abstract in French, pp. 9–10).
2006:
‘Sartre, Jean-Paul’, in Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips (eds), Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature, New York & London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 1179–82.
2005:
‘Why Sartre Matters’, Philosophy Now, Issue 53, November / December 2005, pp. 7–10.
Sartre’s Theatre: Acts for Life, Oxford & Bern, Peter Lang AG (Modern French Identities, 34), 2005.

Address: Deputy Director, Sussex Language Institute, University of Sussex, BN1 9SH
e-mail: b.o-donohoe@sussex.ac.uk

SECRETARY
Dr Angela Kershaw
Angela Kershaw MA PhD (Nottingham) is a Senior Lecturer in French at Birmingham University, where she teaches modern French and European culture, French language and translation studies. Her main research interest is in inter-war French literature and politics, and she has recently published Forgotten Engagements: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s France (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007). Her research interests include French literature of the first half of the twentieth century, women's writing and gender studies and she has published variously in these areas. She is currently preparing a monograph entitled Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (Routledge).

Address: Dr Angela Kershaw, Senior Lecturer, Department of French Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
e-mail: a.kershaw@bham.ac.uk

TREASURER
Dr Deborah Evans
Deborah Evans is an independent scholar who has published articles on Sartre in Sartre Studies International, and on de Beauvoir in Simone de Beauvoir Studies. She has also contributed an essay ('Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and the Question of the "Look"’') to the collected volume, Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (Eds. Christine Daigle and Joseph Golomb), forthcoming with Indiana University Press. She is currently working on a monograph for Cambridge Scholars Publishing entitled: Sartre and Beauvoir: Public Images, Private Lives. Her research interests include Sartre, de Beauvoir, Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida and contemporary philosophy.

Address: e mail: debbie_emh@hotmail.com

WEBMASTER
Professor John Gillespie
John Gillespie is Professor of French, Head of the School of Languages and Literature, and Director of Research of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ulster, where he also directs the Centre for the Study of Literature and Belief and co-directs the Centre of Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning. He edits the Notice Board for Sartre Studies International as well as maintaining the UK Sartre Society's web-site. He has published widely in the area literature and belief, especially in relation to Sartre and Existentialism and on language learning and teaching in relation to Computer Assisted Language Learning and e-learning, serving as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of ReCALL. Chair of the Modern Language Association of Northern Ireland, a member of the Executive Committee of EUROCALL, of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies and of the University Council for Modern Languages, he is currently jointly directing a project for the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies to provide a Comprehensive Languages Strategy for Northern Ireland for the Department of Education in the province.

Address: School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT2 1SA
e-mail: J.Gillespie@ulster.ac.uk

COMMITTEE MEMBER
Dr Bradley Stephens
Bradley Stephens (M.Phil, Ph.D Cambridge) is Lecturer in French at the  University of Bristol, where he serves on the Executive Committee of BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts). His research  focuses on literary cultures of *engagement* in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published various articles and book contributions in this field, and he is also co-editor of *Transmissions*
(Peter Lang, 2007). He is currently working on a monograph exploring previously overlooked connections between Sartre and Victor Hugo, in particular the structural similarities between the French Existentialist and Romantic movements that they respectively personify.

Address: School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 17/19 Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1TE
e-mail: bradley.stephens@bristol.ac.uk