Laura Hughes teaches at New York University and works on modern and contemporary literature, feminist theory, and critical archiving. Her writing has been published in New Literary History, Continents Manuscrits, Cixous depuis 2000, and the Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory. She recently completed a book manuscript titled Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship on the two writers’ overlapping archives. She is a co-translator of the first volume of Hélène Cixous’s seminars.