Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research is principally in the field of twentieth-century French literature, thought and film, with interests including ethics, ethical criticism, Holocaust literature, recent fiction, and the connections between philosophy, fiction and film. His most recent books are Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell (Stanford, 2010) and Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence (Routledge, 2012).