Paul de Man was born in Belgium and taught at Cornell, Zurich, Johns Hopkins, and Yale before his death in 1983. His books include Blindness and Insight, allegories of Reading, The Rhetoric of Romanticism, The Resistance to Theory, Critical Writings 1953-1978, and Aesthetic Ideology. E. S. Burt is associate professor of French at the University of California, Irvine. Kevin Newmark teaches literature at Boston College. Andrzej Warminski is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine.