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Linda Alcott is an Associate Professor of French C/T at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research and writing have focused on the overall theme of autonomy in the writings of Françoise de Graffigny, including analysis of the feminine ideal, androgyny and gender assignment in the author's major and minor works. Additional research includes studies of the contemporary Haitian women writers, Emmelie Prophète and Kettly Mars, and their narrative interpretations of the 2010 earthquake as well as studies of their recent writings on challenging personal and societal issues facing Haitians today. She also has completed studies on the works of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux and Marie Célie-Agnant and published book reviews on multiple Caribbean writers in the French Review. She is the translator of the French monograph, Household, Village and Village Confederation in Southeastern Europe distributed by Columbia University Press.

Dominique Carlini Versini est titulaire d'un doctorat en Lettres (Université du Kent) et enseignante à Durham University au Royaume-Uni. Elle a récemment soutenu sa thèse, intitulée Le Corps-frontière : figures de l'excès dans les fictions de Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Laurence Nobécourt et Marina de Van, qui questionne le dépassement des frontières corporelles et médiatiques dans les œuvres de ces quatre artistes. Elle co-dirige actuellement le numéro spécial Précisions sur les sciences, consacré à l'œuvre de Marie Darrieussecq, pour la revue Dalhousie French Studies (Décembre 2019). Elle se penche également sur le travail de traductrice de Darrieussecq, et notamment sur sa récente traduction de Virginia Woolf, Un lieu à soi (2016) dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur l'écriture inclusive.

Polly Galis was recently awarded a doctorate in French at the University of Leeds, funded by the Leeds 110 Anniversary Research Scholarship, and supervised by Prof. Diana Holmes and Dr. Claire Lozier. Her thesis explored representations of sexuality and corporeality in the literature of Annie Ernaux, Nancy Huston and Nelly Arcan, from a francophone feminist perspective. She acted as tutor and lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at Leeds, being made Associate Fellow of the HEA. Her publications include articles for L'Esprit créateur and Cahiers de L'IREF, and she is co-editing a forthcoming special issue̶—also with L'Esprit créateur—entitled "Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th- and 21st-Century Francophone Culture" (summer 2020), as well as an edited volume for Peter Lang, Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture: Transformation, Fragmentation, Aestheticization (December 2020).

Guergana Gougoumanova a fini ses études de bachelier en études européennes et littérature française en 1999 à Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, États-Unis. En 2001 elle a obtenu sa maîtrise en littérature française à Tulane University, Louisiane, États-Unis et son doctorat de la même université en 2007.

Lavinia Horner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Kansas State University. Her main research and teaching interests focus on liminal identities in Maghreb and in Central/Eastern Europe as well as on the intersection of science and French literature.

Susan Ireland is Professor of French at Grinnell College. She is an editor of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999) and, with Patrice Proulx, of Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France (Greenwood, 2001) and Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec (Praeger, 2004). Her current research interests include memory studies, portrayals of individual and collective trauma, the Algerian novel, representations of the harkis, and the literature of immigration and diaspora in France and Quebec.

Margot Irvine is an Associate Professor of French and European Studies at the University of Guelph where she is the Director of the School of Languages and Literatures. She has published many articles and book chapters on Belle Époque Women Writers. Jane Dieulafoy is a central figure in her monograph Pour suivre un époux: les récits de voyage des couples au dix-neuvième siècle français (Nota bene, 2008). With Karin Schwerdtner and Geneviève De Viveiros, she edited Risques et regrets. Les dangers de l'écriture épistolaire (Nota bene, 2015) and...

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