Patrice Brasseur has been Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Avignon since 1995. His research mainly deals with French dialects in France (Normandy) and in North America (Newfoundland, St. Peter and Miquelon) in their lexical as well as grammatical aspects. As the former director of the research group «Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality, » he was responsible for organizing two international conferences on Minority Theatre (2006 and 2008), in cooperation with Madelena Gonzalez. The papers from the first conference were published by L»Harmattan (Paris) in 2008.Madelena Gonzalez is Professor of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon. Her recent publications include: Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe (2005), Translating Identity and the Identity of Translation (2006), Théâtre des minorités: Mises en scène de la marge à l»époque contemporaine (2008) and Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel (2010). She has published widely on contemporary literature and culture and is currently head of the Avignon-based, interdisciplinary research group, «Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality» (Identité culturelle, textes et théâtralité).