Notes on Contributors

1 76Women in French Studies Notes on Contributors Sonia Assa is Associate Professor of French and Spanish at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. Her research interests are Surrealism and Women's Writing. She has published articles on French and francophone women writers and film-makers, among them Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, Monique Wittig, Paule Constant and Agnès Varda. She has also contributed the entry on Elissa Rhaïs in Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French, co-edited by Eva Sartori and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage. Stéphanie Bérard is a lecturer in Francophone Literature and Culture at Bates College and an instructor assistant professor at Bowdoin College. Her research deals with contemporary Caribbean drama from Guadeloupe and Martinique, the interaction of languages (French and Creole), the translations and adaptation of Western classics, the oral tradition, and the integration of drum music and dance, rituals of carnival and voodoo into theater. She has published articles, theater reviews and interviews in various reviews (Women in French, The French Review, Notre Librairie). She is currently preparing a book on Caribbean Theater of the French West Indies (Traditions et scènes contemporaines). Véronique Bragard est enseignante et chercheuse à l'Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) et en ce moment Visiting Researcher à the University of California Los Angeles grâce à une bourse post-doctorale de la Belgian American Educational Foundation. Ses recherches portent sur la diaspora coolie et établissent des dialogues transocéaniques entre les Antilles et les Mascareignes. Elle a publié sur ce sujet en français et en anglais et termine actuellement un ouvrage intitulé Voyages into Coolitude: Kala Pañi Women 's Cross-Cultural Memory (Peter Lang, 2007). Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier is Assistant Professor of French at Central Michigan University, where she teaches courses on Francophone literature, culture, language and phonetics. Her research interests focus on contemporary French and Francophone literatures and feminist theory, and her publications include essays on works by Mariama Ba, Aminata Saw Fall, Ken Bugul (see previous issue of Women in French Studies), Samuel Beckett, and other works by Marie Nimier. She recently edited a volume on Marie Nimier's work for the Cincinnati Romance Review 25.2 (2006). She is currently co-editing a book titled "Emergent Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices" to be published with Africa World Press, Inc. She also works as Index Bibliographer for the MLA. Sophie Delahaye has recently defended her dissertation on: « Women, Politics Notes on Contributors1 77 and Religion in Sade. In the Shadow of Beauvoir, Klossowski and Blanchot » (May 2007). Her doctoral work was directed by Professor Diane Fourny from the University of Kansas. Sophie Delahaye currently teaches French Literature, Language and Civilization at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include eighteenth-century French literature, art and architecture as well as twentieth-century critics dealing with authors and aspects of the Enlightenment. Thérèse Migraine-George is an Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on women's representation in African theater and on Francophone women writers from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, Women in French Studies, Research in African Literatures, and the Journal of African Cultural Studies. Her book African Women and Representation : From Performance to Politics, has been accepted for publication by Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press. Isabelle Tremblay, doctorante à l'Université d'Ottawa, s'intéresse surtout à la littérature féminine du XVIIIe siècle. D'ailleurs, elle prépare une thèse sur la problématique du bonheur féminin dans l'écriture romanesque des femmes- écrivains du siècle des Lumières. Par ailleurs, ses recherches portent aussi sur la littérature francophone contemporaine. Dans un article publié à la Revue du nouvel-Ontario (n° 31), elle examine la relation qu'entretiennent l'espace et l'identité dans le roman La Côte-de-Sable de Daniel Poliquin. Un roman antillais de Maryse Condé constitue l'objet de son étude parue à l'automne 2005 à la revue Études francophones (vol. 20, n° 2...