Marine Bellégo
has studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of Cambridge and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She currently teaches at the University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and is working on the history of the British Empire, practices of natural history collections, botanic gardens, and India. Her research also revolves around the relationship between micro-history and global history, the use of sociological and anthropological concepts in history, and the material aspects of sources and archives.
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. He is now Associate Lecturer in North American Studies at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. He is a specialist of the Canada/US border, with a particular interest in issues related to terrorism and security. More recently he has focused on border towns as well as the identity and the representations of border residents. He is the author of Canada/Etats-Unis: Enjeux d’une frontière, published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
David Bousquet
is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. He specialises in the study of Caribbean literature, poetry and popular culture with a particular emphasis on musical traditions and reggae. His research on song lyrics and performance poems focuses on the tension between orality and writing from the perspective of post-colonial and cultural studies.
Pauline Collombier-Lakeman
is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, where she teaches British and Irish history. After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay St Cloud and passing the Agrégation d’anglais exam, she was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in 2007. Her research work focuses on Irish parliamentary nationalism. Her publications include “Ireland and the Empire: The Ambivalence of Irish Constitutional Nationalism”, Radical History Review 104 (2009); “Myopia or utopia? The discourse of Irish nationalist MPs and the Ulster question during the parliamentary debates of 1912–14”, in Gabriel Doherty (ed), The Home Rule crisis 1912–14, Cork: Mercier Press, 2014; and The Home Rule Question, Paris: Belin, 2019.
is Professor of British Studies at the University of Paris West (Nanterre). Former director of the English Studies Research group creaEA 370, his Ph.D. thesis was on Henry James and the logic of representation. His recent publications have been on relations between literature and philosophy, on D.H. Lawrence, on David Hume and on modern conceptions of the infinite.
Hélène Gaillard
is a Lecturer in American Painting at the University of Burgundy (Dijon). She has published numerous papers examining the relationship between art, identity and culture. Key issues motivating her work also include intermediality and text/image translation. She has explored these topics in 19th- and 20th-century visual arts and literature. Her doctoral thesis was devoted to the theme of borders in the work of Edward Hopper.
Julie Gay
has recently completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, under the supervision of Professor Nathalie Jaëck. She holds the Agrégation d’anglais and is a permanent teacher at the University of Poitiers. She studies insularity and adventure as places of literary and geopoetic renewal in Britain, notably focusing on Stevenson, Conrad, and Wells. She is currently co-organising the 2020 R.L. Stevenson conference to take place in Bordeaux. She gave presentations at the Stevenson Conference in Edinburgh (2017), at the 2018 asls conference on the Isle of Skye, and at the 2019 iassl conference in Honolulu. She has published articles in the online journal Leaves and in Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens.
Nathalie Massip
is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Côte d’Azur. She has published on New Western History, public history, and the representations of the American West. Her research currently focuses on public land policy, as well as on 21st-century issues pertaining to land management in the American West. She has recently contributed a chapter to the book The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains published by the Center for Western Studies.
Amanda Murphy
is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and member of the cerc (Centre d’Études et de Recherches Comparatistes) at the University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Her research, under the supervision of Tiphaine Samoyault,
Marine Paquereau
obtained her Ph.D. in American Literature in 2015 with a dissertation entitled “Le réalisme social américain à l’ère postmoderne – Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford”. She is a member of the Centre Interlangues: Texte, Image, Langage at the University of Burgundy. She currently teaches in both the English Department and the Language Center of the same University.
Ciaran Ross
has been Professor of English Literature at the University of Strasbourg since 1999. He holds a B.A. degree from National University of Ireland Maynooth and an M.Litt. degree from Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of two books on Samuel Beckett: Aux frontières du vide : Beckett - une écriture sans mémoire ni désir (Rodopi, 2004) and Beckett’s Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (Palgrave, 2011). He is also the editor of Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (Rodopi/Brill, 2010). He is former Director of s.e.a.r.c.h. (Savoirs, Espace Anglophone, Représentations, Culture, Histoire), the Anglophone Studies research group of the University of Strasbourg.
Matthew Smith
lectures in English at the University of Lorraine (Nancy). His research interests are cultural and political history of 18th and 19th centuries, romanticism and the work of Jane Austen. He has recently co-organised an international conference entitled: Mapping Fields of Study: Renegotiations of Disciplinary Spaces in the English-Speaking World.
Maria Tang
graduated with a B.A. Honours and Masters degree in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge, UK. She holds the Agrégation d’anglais and a doctorate from the University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Senior lecturer at the University of Upper Brittany (Rennes 2), her research interests include ecocriticism, nomadic subjectivity, and new materialism especially as they relate to British women writers, with a focus on the porous boundary between the body and the environment. She has published articles on women writers ranging from George Eliot and Katherine Mansfield to Rachel Cusk and Monica Ali.
is Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. His research bears on Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry, its theory, its reception and its historiography, and more specifically on lyric collections. He is the author of a monograph on Michael Drayton’s sonnet sequences (Le Recueil pétrarquiste à l’ère du maniérisme : poétique des sonnets de Michael Drayton, 1594–1619, Honoré Champion, 2014), and has recently co-edited a volume of essays devoted to the early modern English sonnet (The Early Modern English Sonnet: Ever in Motion), to be published in The Manchester Spenser series at Manchester University Press.