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Contributors
SHIRLEY JORDAN is Senior Lecturer in French at Oxford Brookes University.
She publishes on Francis Ponge, on French women’s writing and on ethnography.
Her recent projects have focused on Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie
Despentes and Amélie Nothomb and she is currently writing a monograph on
six contemporary French women writers.
MARGARET A. MAJUMDAR has taught at the Universities of Westminster and,
most recently, as Professor of French and francophone studies at the University
of Glamorgan. She has published in the area of French political philosophy
(including Althusser and the End of Leninism? (Pluto Press, 1995)), Franco-
Maghrebian relations and Maghrebian thought and literature, including
the work of Leïla Sebbar. She was a founding editor of the Bulletin of
Francophone Africa and is currently editing Francophone Studies: The
Essential Glossary.
SIOBHAN MCILVANNEY is Lecturer in French at King’s College London. Her
teaching and research interests lie in beur women’s writing and contemporary
French women’s writing generally. She has recently published a book on Annie
Ernaux, entitled Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins (Liverpool University
Press, 2001).
KATHRYN ROBSON has recently submitted her doctoral thesis on contemporary
French women’s writing at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and is now
Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle. She is co-editor, with Emily
Butterworth, of Shifting Borders: Theory and Identity in French Literature
(Peter Lang, 2001).
GILL RYE is Lecturer in French at the Institute of Romance Studies, University
of London. She publishes widely on contemporary French women’s writing;
co-editor (with Julia Dobson) of a special issue of Paragraph on Cixous
(2000), she is author of Reading for Change: Interactions between Text and
Identity in Contemporary French Women’s Writing (Baroche, Cixous,
Constant) (Peter Lang, 2001).
MARION SADOUX teaches French language at UCL Language Centre. She has
published articles on epistolary writing and on Marie Darrieussecq.
AINE SMITH completed a Ph.D. on identity in the works of Annie Ernaux and
Marie Redonnet in 2000. She has taught at the Universities of Lancaster,
Durham, Lille III and Rennes II.
MICHAEL WORTON is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language
and Literature at UCL. He has written extensively on modern French literature
and on issues in critical theory and gender theory. His publications
include Textuality and Sexuality: Reading Theories and Practices, co-edited
with Judith Still (Manchester University Press, 1993), Michel Tournier