Jacques Lezra is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California Riverside. He has taught at Yale, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and NYU and held visiting positions in comparative literature at Harvard and at UC Irvine. In 2010 he was awarded the Robert Frost Chair in Literature at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. His most recent book is Contra todos los fueros de la muerte: El suceso cervantino (2016), a collection of articles and unpublished essays as well as chapters from his first book, Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997). Other works include Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (2010) and (with Liza Blake) the edited volume Lucretius and Modernity (2016). Forthcoming are On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology; Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought; and a collection on allegory and political representation (coedited with Tarra Mendola).