Gilles Chamerois is Associate Professor at the University of Brest, France. He has edited a collection of essays and written several articles on Thomas Pynchon (ranging from aeronautics to the figure of Nikola Tesla in Against the Day). He was a student at the French Louis Lumière National Film School and has published articles on film and adaptation as well as a book on Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë/Franco Zeffirelli) with Élise Ouvrard.
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd is Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France, where she teaches American and English literature as well as literary translation.
She has published mostly on contemporary American fiction, notably on Thomas Pynchon, and translated Walker Percy and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Her current work on the interplay of poetic schemes and narrative has led her to focus on the lesserknown fiction of American poet Fanny Howe.