Notes on Contributors

Women in French Studies183 Notes on Contributors Lina Avendaflo Anguita, membre du Grupo de Investigación (HUM 733) Filología Francesa : Estudios lingüísticos y literarios de Filología Francesa à l'Université de Grenade en Espagne, poursuit ses recherches dans le domaine de l'analyse du discours narratif, s'attachant particulièrement à l'approche discursive des temps verbaux dans l'œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute. Depuis 1990, elle est responsable des cours de langue et de traduction au Département de Philologie Française de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras à Grenade. Lucille Cairns is Professor of French at the University of Durham, UK. She has published numerous articles and chapters both on French women's writing and on male and female homosexuality in French literature and film; four singleauthored monographs: Marie Cardinal: Motherhood and Creativity (1992), Privileged Pariahdom: Homosexuality in the Novels ofDominique Fernandez (1996), Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature (2002), and Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema (2006); and one edited volume, Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France ( 2002). Her new project centres on Jewish women's writing in French. She is also President of AUPHF (Association ofUniversity Professors and Heads ofFrench). Dawn Cornelio is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include the practice ofliterary translation, contemporary French poetry and French women's writing. She has published a translation of Jean Michel-Maulpoix's Une histoire de bleu (A Matter ofBlue, Boa Editions, 2005) and is currently completing a translation of Marie Etienne's L'Enfant et le Soldat. Natalie Edwards is Assistant Professor of French at Wagner College, New York City. She specializes in twentieth-century French and Francophone women's writing with an emphasis upon autobiography. She is the author of articles on Hélène Cixous, Simone de Beauvoir, Aminata Sow Fall and Paule Constant. She is the co-editor, with Christopher Hogarth, of the forthcoming volume Gender andDisplacement: The Representation of 'Home ' in Contemporary Francophone Women 's Autobiography and is currently completing a manuscript on plural selfhood in recent women's life writing. Jenelle Griffin received her BA in French from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and her MA in French with a certificate in Women's Studies from Saint Louis University. She is currently a doctoral student in French Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She wrote 1 84Notes on Contributors "Responding to the Shadows" while at Saint Louis University under the mentorship ofPascale Perraudin. Typhaine Leservot is Assistant Professor in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department (French) and the College of Letters at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She specializes in the intersection of globalization and Francophone Postcolonial studies. Her book Le Corps mondialisé: Marie Redonnet, Maryse Condé, Assia Djebar was published in December 2007 by L'Harmattan in Paris. She has also published articles on Maryse Condé and Assia Djebar, and is currently working on a book-length project that analyzes the impact of globalization on Postcolonial theory. Véronique Maisier est professeure à Southern Illinois University à Carbondale. Elle a obtenu son doctorat de l'université de Paris IV-Sorbonne après avoir soutenu une thèse sur l'inspiration picaresque dans l'œuvre romanesque de l'écrivain suisse Albert Cohen. Elle a depuis publié plusieurs articles sur cet auteur ainsi que des articles sur Patrick Chamoiseau et Albert Bensoussan. Elle s'intéresse à la littérature féminine et particulièrement aux écrits d'auteures telles que Annie Emaux, Marie Redonnet, Paule Constant et Gisèle Pineau. Elle travaille actuellement à un manuscript sur la violence exercée par et sur les jeunes filles dans la littérature caribéenne francophone et anglophone. Anna Rocca is Assistant Professor of French and Italian in the Foreign Languages Department at Salem State College, MA, where she teaches courses on Italian, French and Francophone literature, culture and language. Her general research interest includes twentieth and twenty-first century women writers of North Africa and the Caribbean. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between the female body, desire, and public space. In 2005, she published Assia Djebar, Ie corps invisible: voir sans être vue with L...