Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Texas.  Her areas of research interest are contemporary continental philosophy of religion; comparative philosophy; religion and literature; phenomenological and post-structuralist ethics. Some of her more recent publications include "Memory, History, Revelation," Memory, History in christianity and Judaism, ed. Michael Signer, Notre Dame Press, (2001), "Intending Transcendence, Desiring God," Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology, Blackwell Publishers, and "Ethics as First Philosophy: Levinas and Spionoza," Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, 40:3 (2000): 219-29.