Autor: Ionut Untea, David Waterman Martine Raibaud Miceala Symington

Martine Raibaud is Senior Lecturer of Chinese Language and Civilization at the University of La Rochelle. She studied at the University of Peking and holds a doctorate in Far Eastern Asian Studies from the University of Paris 7 Diderot. She recently published Enjeux identitaires (with S. Ryan and J. Bonnevin, les Indes Savantes, 2013).Micéala Symington is Professor at the University of La Rochelle. A graduate of Oxford University (Keble College), she is „agrégée“ and holds a doctorate and „habilitation à diriger des recherches“ from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her most recent publication is Actualité et inactualité de la notion de postcolonial (with Jean Bessière and Joanny Moulin, Champion, 2013).Ionut Untea received his PhD degree in December 2013 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris, and has taught in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at the University of La Rochelle. The topics explored in his research are early modern, modern and contemporary English, American and European history, philosophy, and political theory. David Waterman is Professor at the University of La Rochelle, France, where he is Director of the Department of Applied Foreign Languages and a member of the research team CRHIA (Center for Research in International and Atlantic History). David Waterman is currently working on Pakistani history, culture and literature in English, and has served on the editorial team of Pakistaniaat. His most recent publication is Where Worlds Collide: Pakistani Fiction in the New Millennium, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.