Richard J. Golsan is a professor of French and the head of the Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures at Texas A & M University. He is editor of the South Central Review and author of RenA(c) Girard and Myth: An Introduction (Routledge, 1993, 2001) and Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).