Cécile Birks is a senior lecturer in English at Université Paris Nanterre. Following a thesis on the question of madness in Samuel Beckett’s theatre, she published several articles on the issues of racism, migration and trauma in South African literature. Her current research interest bears on the history of psychiatry and scientific racism in South Africa, more specifically in the Cape Colony in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Claire Deligny is a senior lecturer in British History at the Université Paris Nanterre. Her work deals with the social and political history of psychiatry, with a focus on British psychiatric institutions. Her ongoing research deals with the political geographies of the Lancashire lunatic asylums on the local, regional and national scales in the long nineteenth century. She is currently working on the impact of WWI on the management of the six Lancashire asylums (1914-1922).
Laurence Dubois is a senior lecturer in British History at Université Paris Nanterre. She previously worked as an English teacher in a psychiatric clinic for teenagers and young adults in Paris (Clinique Georges Heuyer), where she taught for seven years. Her particular field of interest is the history of psychiatry and its political and social dimension, more specifically during the Victorian era. Her research focuses on Hanwell Lunatic Asylum as a benchmark in nineteenth-century British psychiatry and on the impact of moral management in British asylums in general, including criminal lunatic asylums. She is the author of L’asile de Hanwell : un modèle utopique dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie anglaise?, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017.
Elisabeth Fauquert is a senior lecturer in American studies at Université Paris Nanterre. Her current research focuses on the US health care system since the adoption of the Affordable Care Act , with a special interest in the scope and limits of the availability of medical care. Her recent research deals with the geopolitics of the COVID pandemic, domestic and international medical mobilities, abortion mobilities, and the availability of psychiatric and mental health care in 21st century US.
Laetitia Sansonetti is Professor of English Translation Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research bears on the reception of classical and continental texts in England, language learning, multilingualism and translation. Her research project on translation and polyglossia in early modern England (https://tape1617.hypotheses.org/) was funded by a five-year grant from Institut Universitaire de France (2018-2023). She is interested in the interplay between literary and medical discourses, representations of glossolalic speech in English texts and the translation of psychiatric lexicons