Catherine M. Peebles teaches in the Humanities Program and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of New Hampshire. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2000. She has written on French literature and film, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist theory. Currently she is working on a project tentatively entitled Anxiety, Equality, and the Will to Power.