Author: Elisabeth Angel-Perez

Prof. Elisabeth Angel-Perez is professor of English Literature and drama at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Her recent publications include Voyages au bout du possible : Les théâtres du traumatisme de Samuel Beckett à Sarah Kane (Paris: Klincksieck, 2006), Howard Barker et le Théâtre de la Catastrophe (Paris: Théâtrales, 2006), and, with Nicole Boireau, Le Théâtre anglais contemporain 1985-2005 (Paris: Klincksieck, 2007). She is co-editor of the journal Etudes Anglaises. She also translates plays and theoretical writings by Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill and Howard Barker.Alexandra Poulain is professor of Irish literature and drama at University Charles de Gaulle – Lille III. She has written extensively on twentieth-century Irish drama. Her current research focuses on the processes of figuration and disfiguration of national identity in the drama of the Irish Literary Revival. She has also translated several Irish playwrights into French. She is the author of Homo Famelicus, Le Théâtre de Tom Murphy (Caen : Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2008).