Prof. Vanessa Guignery:

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of contemporary English and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the President of the SEAC (Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines).

She is the author of monographs on Julian Barnes (2001, 2006, 2020), B.S. Johnson (2009), Ben Okri (2012) and Jonathan Coe (2015), and the editor or co-editor of several collections of essays on contemporary British and postcolonial literature (notably on Ben Okri, Janet Frame, Nadine Gordimer and Caryl Phillips, and on such topics as the poetics of voice and silence, hybridity and fragmentation).

She is currently editing a special issue of the journal Études Anglaises on contemporary Nigerian literature and writing a book on Kazuo Ishiguro’s creative process through an analysis of his archives.
Website: www.vanessaguignery.com