Genevieve Amaral received her B.A. in Literary Studies and Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2005, and her M.A. from Dartmouth College in 2006, where she produced a master's thesis on Blanchot's Death Sentence and Heidegger's Being and Time. She is currently a PhD Candidate in CLS & French, and her interests include continental philosophy, in particular phenomenology and hermeneutics, and its intersections with 20th century French literary theory; theoretical questions surrounding narrative; the Collège de Sociologie; the history of French wartime publishing; and the late 19th and 20th century avant-garde. She is spending 2011/2012 in France with the Paris Program in Critical Theory.