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Maggie Allison Editor

Maggie Allison is Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research and publications in gender and media in France cover journalism, the women’s press, sexual harassment and the role of women in politics. She has also published, in collaboration with Sheila Perry, on the televised débats participatifs broadcast prior to the 2007 French presidential elections, focusing on representations of diversity and gender.
Angela Kershaw is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on literature and culture of the interwar period and the Second World War in France. She is the author of Forgotten Engagements: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s France (2007) and Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (2010).