Trevor Merrill is the author of a novel, Minor Indignities (Wiseblood Books, 2020), and a literary essay, The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with René Girard (Bloomsbury, 2013). He has lectured and written widely about René Girard. He contributed translations of Girard to Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy (Bloomsbury, 2020) and to the recent volume All Desire is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics, 2023), and has edited books by and about Girard, including La Conversion de l’art (Grasset, 2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion (executive editor). His writing has appeared in First Things, Compact, Dappled Things, and many others. He teaches French and French literature at Caltech and runs Imitatio, a Girard program at the Thiel Foundation.