Laurence Petit is Associate Professor of English at Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3, France. She has published many articles on the relation between literature and the visual arts in contemporary British and American fiction. She is the co-editor of several volumes on text and image.Pascale Tollance is Professor of English at Université Lumière–Lyon 2, France. She has written extensively on contemporary British and post-colonial writers. She is the author of a book on contemporary British novelist Graham Swift, and has co-edited several volumes on word-and-image studies.