Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is the translator of numerous novels by Marie Redonnet, ¿ic Chevillard, Christian Oster, Lutz Bassmann, and Antoine Volodine, many of which are available from the University of Nebraska Press. His translation of Claude Simon¿s The Jardin des Plantes was awarded the French-American Foundation¿s translation prize and he was named Chevalier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is also the author of The Other Book: Bewilderments of Fiction (Nebraska, 2011).