Weaving Words into Worlds

Caroline Durand-Rous holds a Ph.D. in American literature and Native Studies entitled 'Reinvented Totems: Exploring Identities and Rewriting Oneself in Contemporary Native American Fiction'. Her research focuses on Native American novels and how ambivalent totemic figures offer guidance to characters in disarray on the path to the discovery of hybrid identities. She has published articles in L'Atelier and Transatlantica and has participated in European conferences held by the AFEA, the AIW, and the EASLCE, where she presented her analyses of Louise Erdrich's 'The Painted Drum', David Treuer's 'The Translation of Dr. Apelles' and Eden Robinson's 'Monkey Beach'. Margot Lauwers holds a Ph.D. in American literature and ecofeminism from the University of Perpignan. There, she taught business English, English language, technical and literary translation, and American civilization for eight years. She has also worked as an English teacher in middle and high school. She has been an Assistant Editor for 'Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment' since 2016. She has completed the translation to French of Carolyn Merchant's 'The Death of Nature' (Wildprojects, Marseille, Autumn 2021) and of Susan Griffin's 'Woman and Nature the Roaring Inside Her' (Editions Le Pommier, Paris, Summer 2021).