Manon Mathias has recently completed her doctoral thesis on conceptions of vision in the works of George Sand at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, art-text relations, literary history and relations between literature and the natural sciences. Maria O”Sullivan has recently completed her doctoral thesis on the critical work of Roland Barthes at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include literary theory and contemporary French fiction. Ruth Vorstman has recently completed her doctoral thesis on female dramatists in seventeenth-century France at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include women”s writing and culture, the development of proto-feminist ideas, and the processes of adaptation and dramatization.