Nigel Harkness is Senior Lecturer in French at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests focus on George Sand and women's writing in nineteenth-century France. He is the author of Men of their Words : The Poetics of Masculinity in George Sand's Fiction (2007) and co-editor of Dix-Neuf, the journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Marion Schmid is Reader in French at the University of Edinburgh.
She is the author of Chantal Akerman (2010), Proust dans la décadence (2008), Proust at the Movies (2005 ; co-authored with Martine Beugnet) and Processes of Literary Creation : Flaubert and Proust (1998).