Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, Ramona Fotiade is the Director of the Lev Shestov Studies Society and the editor of the Shestov Journal, which brought out the previously unpublished correspondence between Martin Buber and Shestov (issue nr. 4-5/ 2005). Her book, Conceptions of the Absurd (From Surrealism to the Existential Thought of Shestov and Fondane), was published in 2001.