Reginald McGinnis received his Ph.D. in French from Stanford University. He is the author of Essai sur l'origine de la mystification Presses Universitaires de Vincennes 2009) and La prostitution sacrée: essai sur Baudelaire Belin 1994) and editor of Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment Routledge 2008) As President of the Western Humanities Alliance, Prof. McGinnis served as co-guest editor of special issues of the Western Humanities Review on Borders 2006) The Relevance of the Humanities 2008) Nature, Culture, Technology 2009) Engagements 2010) and Economics and the Humanities 2011) His recent articles have appeared in French Studies, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia and Eighteenth-Century Music.