Notes on Contributors

179 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Carole Allamand is an Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University. She is the author of a book on Marguerite Yourcenar (Une écriture en mal de mère, Paris: Imago, 2004) and a dozen articles on twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury French and American novelists. She is currently completing a book, Primal Scenes of Writing, which challenges the prevailing notion of autobiography as fiction's Other through readings of Rouaud, Gary, Yourcenar, Ernaux, Des Forêts, Simon and Garat. Her research interests also include crime fiction, and the emerging field ofCritical Animal Studies. Sophie Belot is coordinator of and lecturer in the part-time Degree in French Language and Cultures at the University of Sheffield. She has published a number of articles on contemporary French cinema and most particularly on the issue of women's film-making in present-day France. She has completed a monograph on the director and scriptwriter Catherine Breillat for Rodopi to be published in early 201 1. As well as continuing to publish articles on films made by women, she is also currently working on a new project looking at the interrelationships between the French New Wave and the World Cinema with specific attention to British and Latin-American cinemas. Professeur de langue, de culture et de littérature française à Colby College (Etats-Unis), Audrey Brunetaux a obtenu son Doctorat es Lettres de Michigan State University. Elle a consacré sa thèse de doctorat à l'analyse d'une esthétique du silence et de sa valeur herméneutique dans la trilogie Auschwitz et après de Charlotte Delbo. Son champ de recherche porte essentiellement sur la littérature française du XXe siècle, la littérature de la Shoah, le genre autobiographique, le cinéma contemporain, et les arts visuels. Elle travaille actuellement sur plusieurs articles qui explorent les modes de représentation du traumatisme dans les bandes-dessinées et les témoignages sur la Shoah, plus particulièrement le lien entre texte et image. Brooke Heidenreich Findley received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2003 and is now Assistant Professor of French and Women's Studies at Penn State Altoona. Her research interest is in medieval French literature, with a particular focus on questions of gender and writing. She has published articles on Heloise, the trobairitz and Jean Froissait, and is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Imagining Women Writers: Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative, 1200-1450. Barbara Giraud is a young lecturer from Oxford Brookes University (UK). She has just published her doctoral thesis on the Goncourt brothers entitled L'Héroine goncourtienne: entre hystérie et dissidence (Peter Lang: 2009) as well as several articles on the works of the Goncourt: "Chronique d'une mort 180Women in French Studies annoncée: la mort de Jules sous la plume d'Edmond" (NZ Journal ofFrench Studies: 2009); "A reflection of the medical discourse in the Goncourt brothers' Renée Mauperin (1864)" in Reflection: New Directions in Modern Languages and Cultures, (Cambridge Scholar Press, 2008); "Sœur Philomène ou comment la mort s'invite à l'hôpital" in Birth & Death in Nineteenth-Century French culture, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007). She is now working on the dissemination of scientific ideas on to the general public through various channels of writing including women's writing in the last decades ofthe 19th century. Cathy Jellenik is Assistant Professor of French at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina where she teaches French language, modern French literature and culture, and Translation Theory. Her scholarly interests include twentiethand twenty-first century French and Francophone authors, feminist trends, and literary translation. Cathy Jellenik published her first book, Rewriting Rewriting: Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet in 2007 and is currently working on a book treating the problems oftranslating feminism. Florence Ramond Jurney est Professeur Associé à Gettysburg College. Spécialiste d'études francophones, elle étudie principalement la littérature des Caraïbes. Elle a publié des articles sur les romancières caribéennes Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Condé, Edwige Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff et Julia Alvarez. Son premier livre Voix/es libres : Maternité et identitéféminine dans la littérature...