Rebecca Comay is professor of philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include Hegel and 19th century German philosophy; Marx and Marxism; psychoanalysis; critical theory; contemporary French philosophy; theatricality; contemporary art and art criticism; Proust and Beckett; trauma and memory. She is the author, more recently, of On Persistence (2026), as well as of The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing, co-authored with Frank Ruda (2018), and Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (2011). She is the editor of Lost in the Archives (2002), and co-editor with Bart Zandvoort of Hegel and Resistance (2018), and with John McCumber of Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger (1999).