Lara Cox teaches English at Université Picardie Jules Verne (France). She gained her Ph.D. in French theatre from the University of Exeter in 2012. She has published on visual culture (theatre, film, stand-up, art) and gender studies.

Contents: Introduction - Comedy in Unexpected Places: Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (1950) - Remembrance Through Rejection: Active Nihilism, Vietnam, and Adamov's Off Limits - Psychotic recuperations of a multi-racial feminism in Beckett's Not I (1972) - Genet's The Blacks: Remixed at the Intersection of Gender and Race - Queering the Carceral and Assaulting America's Prison Industrial Complex: Arrabal's And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers