Organization committee

Renaud Bouchet, Associate Professor in contempory art history

Hélène Lecossois is maître de conférence in the Department of English at the Université du Maine, Le Mans, France and a member of the Labo 3L. AM research group. She is the author of Endgame de Samuel Beckett (Paris: Atlande, 2009) and of many articles on 20^th-century Irish and British drama. With Hélène Aji, Brigitte Felix and Anthony Larson, she has co-edited L’Impersonnel en littérature: Explorations critiques et théoriques, (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009) and with Jeffrey Hopes Théâtre et nation (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011). She is currently working on a monograph on J. M. Synge and Ireland’s colonial modernity

Delphine Letort is an Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Maine (Le Mans, France), where she teaches American civilization and film studies. She has published Du film noir au néo-noir : mythes et stéréotypes de l’Amérique 1941-2008 (L’Harmattan, 2010) and The Spike Lee Brand: a Study of Documentary Filmmaking (SUNY, 2015). She has written numerous articles about film adaptations, documentary filmmaking and African-American cinema in journals in France (Revue LISA, InMedia, Transatlantica, etc.) and abroad (Screen, Alphaville, Media, War and Conflict, etc.). She has co-edited several journal issues (Documentary Filmmaking Practices: from Propaganda to Dissent; Exploring War Memories in American Documentaries) and books (L’Adaptation cinématographique : premières pages, premiers plans, 2014; La Culture de l’engagement à l’écran, 2015 ; Social Class on British and American Screens. Essays on Cinema and Television, 2016), a thematic issue for the CinémAction series (Panorama mondial du film noir, 2014). She serves on the advisory editorial board of Black Camera (http://www.indiana.edu/~blackcam/home/) and Lisa E-Journal (https://lisa.revues.org).

Stéphane Tison, Associate Professor in History.