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Bio: Renée Larrier is Professor of French at Rutgers University New Brunswick, where she recently served as Chair of the Department. Author of Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean (2006) and Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean (2000), she also co-edited with Ousseina D. Alidou Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean (2015), and Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated (1999) with E. Anthony Hurley and Joseph McLaren. She has also contributed dozens of articles to essay collections and scholarly journals. She shares the editing duties of CARAF Books, the translation series at the University Press of Virginia, with Mildred Mortimer.