Solitaires, Solidaires

Elise Hugueny-Léger is a Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews. She specialises in first-person writing in contemporary French literature, with a first book entitled Annie Ernaux, une poétique de la transgression (Peter Lang, 2009), and Projections de soi, a book in preparation on autofiction and the moving image. In addition to numerous publications and talks on Ernaux, she has contributed articles and chapters on Duras and intellectuals, Camille Laurens’ writings, and autofiction and crime fiction.Caroline Verdier is a Lecturer in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, particularly Belgian women writers. She has published articles on Elisa Brune and co-edited Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens, with Susan Bainbrigge and Joy Charnley (Peter Lang, 2010), and As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age, with Joy Charnley (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).