Celine Surprenant is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. Her publications include Freud's Mass Psychology: Questions of Scale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and articles on Marcel Proust, among others. She has translated Jean-Luc Nancy, The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's bon mots (Stanford University Press, 2001), and, with Christopher Jacquet, Avital Ronell, Stupidity (Stock, 2006). She is currently writing a book on European discourses of quantification in literature and philosophy, c.1850s-1890s.