Two Rooms, Monologues, Imaginaries, as Seen through their Texts

Mark Cohen teaches French, Literature, and Philosophy, most recently in the Hunter College Athena Program (CUNY). His translation of major texts by Montaigne, Descartes, and Pascal, The French Roots of Modern Thought, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Ivone Margulies is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (Duke University Press, 1996), published in translation in an expanded edition by the University of São Paulo Press (2016). She is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (Duke University Press, 2003) and has written on cinéma vérité and psychodrama, French cinema and theatricality, and realism. Her book on in-person reenactment, The Real/Actor: Reenactment in Postwar Cinema, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.