1Sara ARAMI is a temporary lecturer at the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne and a member of SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire). She completed her PhD at the University Strasbourg in 2020. Her research interests involve identity, diaspora, nationality, femininity, cartography and the body.

2Sandrine BAUDRY is an Associate Professor of American studies at the University of Strasbourg (France) and a member of SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire). Her research focuses on conflicts around the uses of urban space. She has published several articles and book chapters on urban gardening, and co-edited with Aneta Dybska a special issue of the European Journal of American Studies on “Spatial Justice and the Right to the City: Conflicts around Access to Public Urban Space” (2015, 10:3). Her current research deals with the political and spatial dynamics of Native American visibility in Rapid City, South Dakota.

3David BOUSQUET is 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.

4Laurence CRISTINA is a senior English teacher specialised in British civilisation. She has a PhD from the University of Strasbourg and has so far mainly focused on the role of the suffrage press in the fight to obtain the right to vote in Great Britain. She has taken part in several conferences dealing with the history of the feminist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is currently examining the ways in which some of the methods used by today’s feminist organisations echo the suffragettes’ actions.

5Joseph EGWURUBE holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bordeaux in France. He was a Senior Lecturer for several years at Ahmadu Bello University in the city of Zaria in Nigeria before he moved to France in 1990. At present, he teaches Business and Legal English to post-graduate students at the University of La Rochelle in France and is an Associate Researcher with the CRHIA, the Centre for Research on International and Atlantic History. His research focus is on inter-group relations in Nigeria as well as on problems faced by Nigerian immigrants in the USA.

6Silvia GERLSBECK is a research associate and PhD candidate in English Literary and Cultural Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She is currently completing her thesis on the intersection of authorship, masculinity, and ethnicity in the Anglo-Caribbean artist novel, which rereads novels of the ‘Windrush generation’ in light of their contribution to a renewed understanding of authorship. Presently, she is also co-editing an interdisciplinary volume on representations of the male body. Her research interests and teaching activities include postcolonial and Black British studies, masculinity studies, theories and representations of authorship, and body studies.

7Amandine GUYOT is a Ph.D. candidate at the University Paris 13–Sorbonne Paris Cité in Comparative Literature. Her thesis is entitled Crossing Lines in the Indian Empire: Oscillations, Transgressions and Subversions. Geocriticism of the Space of the Line in British, French and Indian Fiction, 18th-19th centuries. Her areas of interest include geocriticism, colonial literature and postcolonial theory, focusing on issues of power and spatiality. She teaches French as a Foreign Language, and she recently published the article “Strangers, Foreigners and Aliens in Conan Doyle’s Novels: From Imperialistic Appropriation to Literary Subversion,” in Making Strangers: Outsiders, Aliens and Foreigners (2018).

8Hélène IBATA is Professor of English and visual studies at the University of Strasbourg. Her work on Romantic visual culture includes The Challenge of the Sublime: from Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art (2018, Manchester University Press). She has also published articles on the sublime, Romantic artist travelers, early panoramas, book illustrations, exhibition practices, William Blake and J.M.W. Turner, in journals like Word and Image, The European Romantic Review, Romanticism on the Net and The British Art Journal.

9Caroline LEHNI is a Senior Lecturer in British civilization at Sciences Po Strasbourg. Her research centres on visual and cultural history. She has published several essays on the British representations of Egypt in nineteenth-century travel book illustrations and co-edited Geographies of Contact: Britain, the Middle East and the Circulation of Knowledge (2017, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg). Since 2015, she has worked on the visual representations of the conflict in Northern Ireland. She thus explores the construction of imagined geographies and their impact on specific places and the social groups that inhabit or visit them.

10Stefanie LETHBRIDGE is Professor for English Literature and Culture at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Her major research interests have been in English print culture from the Renaissance to the early 20th century and contemporary popular culture. Current research projects focus on gothic and sensation fiction of the romantic period and the 19th century, the significance of urban and natural spaces in literature, material cultures and ecocriticism.

11Monica MANOLESCU is Professor of American literature at the University of Strasbourg and a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent and a visiting professor at the ICU Tokyo. She has authored Lolita. Cartographies de l’obsession. Nabokov/Kubrick (2009, Presses Universitaires de France, with Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris), Jeux de mondes. L’ailleurs chez Vladimir Nabokov (2010, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux) and Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities. Art, Literature and Urban Spaces (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).

12Julien NÈGRE is Associate Professor of North American Studies at the ENS de Lyon and a member of the research team IHRIM (CNRS). His research focuses on the place of maps and mapping in American texts from the 18th century to the present. He is the author of L’arpenteur vagabond. Cartes et cartographies dans l’œuvre de Henry David Thoreau (2019, ENS Éditions) and the coeditor, with François Specq and Laura Dassow Walls, of Thoreau beyond Borders (2020, University of Massachusetts Press). He has also published articles on William Byrd of Westover, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and Jack Kerouac.

13Céline PLANCHOU is an Associate Professor of US Studies at the University of Paris 13-Villetaneuse (France) and a member of PLÉIADE (Centre de recherche pluridisciplinaire en Lettres, Langues, Sciences Humaines et des Sociétés). Her research focuses on the legal and political status of Native Americans in the United States, with a focus on child welfare. She has co-edited with Marine Le Puloch an issue of the French journal of American studies on “The Nations Within” (Revue française d’études américaines 144:3, 2015). Her current work, a collaborative project, deals with the political and spatial dynamics of Native American visibility in Rapid City, South Dakota.

14Anna-Grace SCULLION is a teacher and researcher from Northern Ireland. She completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia. Anna-Grace’s PhD thesis, “Reading Borders in the Work of Louise Erdrich,” was supported by a School of Art, Media and American Studies Postgraduate Research Studentship. Her research focuses on place and identity in American literature.

15Julia SICCARDI is a PhD candidate at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. The title of her thesis is “Towards Transculturalism: The Writing of Alterity in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Monica Ali, Bernardine Evaristo, Jhumpa Lahiri and Zadie Smith”. Her research focuses on such concepts as transculturalism, alterity, racial identities and decolonial thinking. She teaches at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3.

16Frédérique SPILL is Professor of American literature at the University of Picardy–Jules Verne, UR UPJV 4295, in Amiens, France. She is the author of L’Idiotie dans l’œuvre de William Faulkner (2009, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle) soon to be published in English. She contributed to Critical Insights: The Sound and the Fury (2014, Salem Press) and to Faulkner at Fifty: Tutors and Tyros (2014, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She edited The Wagon Moves: New Essays on As I Lay Dying (2018, L’Harmattan). She has also published articles in French and in English on varied contemporary American authors including Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Penn Warren, Jonathan Safran Foer, Willa Cather, Russell Banks, Elizabeth Spencer and Ron Rash. The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash’s Writing was published by South Carolina Press in 2019.