The Editors: Susan Bainbrigge is Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research interests include twentieth-century French literature, in particular women’s writing, feminist theory, autobiography studies, francophone writing, and women in politics. She is the author of articles on Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographies, feminist theory, and the ‘parité’ debate.
A former Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Jeanette den Toonder is currently Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include contemporary French and francophone literature, focusing on the contemporary novel in Quebec, the autobiographical genre and questions of identity. She is the author of «Qui est-je?»: L’écriture autobiographique des nouveaux romanciers, as well as numerous articles.