Author: Caroline Verdier

Joy Charnley”s research interests focus specifically on French-speaking Swiss writers such as Yvette Z”Graggen, Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Janine Massard. She has written and co-edited many books and articles on Swiss literatures and history and is co-organiser, with Barbara Burns, of a series of Swiss-themed symposiums at the University of Glasgow. With Lucia Aiello and Mariangela Palladino, she is currently co-editing a volume of essays on migration entitled Displaced Women: Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe.Caroline Verdier is a Teaching Fellow in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where she completed a PhD on contemporary Belgian writer Elisa Brune in 2011. Her research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, in particular Belgian women writers such as Françoise Lalande, Nicole Malinconi, Lydia Flem and Elisa Brune. She co-edited Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens with Susan Bainbrigge and Joy Charnley (New York: Peter Lang, 2010).