Caroline Vial received her B.A. from Middlebury College, where she majored in Philosophy and Italian, and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III. She has also at the Università degli studi in Ferrara, Italy, and the Universidad de la Rioja in Logroño, Spain, in addition to being a participant in the Paris Program in Critical Theory (2006; 2007). Her M.A. thesis focused on the phenomenology of time in Gertrude Stein's poetry and the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Her research interests include literary theory, continental philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, post modernity, deconstruction, the intersections between philosophy and literature, and visual art and literature, within the context of French, Italian and Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has co-translated two essays (by J-P Dupuy and J-J Goux), which appeared in a special issue of the journal SubStance (March, 2008) entitled "Cultural Theory after 9/11."