Corinne Bigot is a senior lecturer at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. A specialist of Canadian literature, she is the author of a monograph entitled Alice Munro. Les silences de la nouvelle (PUR) and has published several articles on Munro's stories. Catherine Lanone is a professor of British Literature at the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has published books on Emily Brontë and E.
M. Forster, and articles on Virginia Woolf, Jane Urquhart and Emily Carr.