Contact: vanessaguignery@wanadoo.fr

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English and Post-colonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the author of several books and essays on the work of Julian Barnes, including The Fiction of Julian Barnes (Macmillan, 2006), and Conversations with Julian Barnes (Mississippi Press, 2009), co-edited with Ryan Roberts. She has published articles on various British and Indian contemporary authors, as well as a monograph on B.S. Johnson, This is not Fiction. The True Novels of B.S. Johnson (Sorbonne UP, 2009).
She edited and co-edited several collections of essays on contemporary British and post-colonial literature including (Re)mapping London (Publibook, 2008), Voices and Silence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), Chasing Butterflies: Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories (Publibook, 2011), Hybridity: Forms and Figures in Literature and the Visual Arts (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), and a special issue of the Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies on Julian Barnes (Sibiu, 2009).
Forthcoming are her collection of interviews, Novelists in the New Millenium (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Seeing and Being: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (PUF, 2012).

www.vanessaguignery.com