Judith Misrahi-Barak - Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III

Maître de Conférence - HDR / Associate Professor Département d’Etudes Anglophones / English Department, Université Paul-Valéry / Paul-Valery University, Montpellier III, France.

Judith Misrahi- Barak read English at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses and the University of Paris III. She passed the Agrégation and holds a Doctorate on the Writing of Childhood in Caribbean Literature. She has been teaching at Paul-Valéry University Montpellier III since 2001.

Has published a variety of articles on Caribbean writers and the Caribbean diaspora in Commonwealth, Alizés, Annales du Monde Anglophone, Journal of the Short-Story in English… Has contributed a chapter in La Ville plurielle dans la fiction antillaise anglophone (Presses Universitaires de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, 2000); as well as one in Lignes d’horizon – Récits de voyage de la littérature anglaise (Jean Viviès, ed. ; Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2002). Has published an interview with Cyril Dabydeen in Commonwealth.

She is Co-director of the Cerpac (Research Centre on the Commonwealth) where she has organised several international conferenceson ‘V. S. Naipaul: a World in Tension’ (2002), ‘Revisiting Slave Narratives’ (2003, with Fred D’Aguiar and Caryl Phillips); ‘Transport(s) in the British Empire and Commonwealth’ (2005); «Postcolonial Ghosts» (2007, with Pauline Melville and Karen King-Aribisala); ‘India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination’ (2009, with Romesh Gunesekera, Lakshmi Persaud and Khal Torabully).

She is General Editor of Les Carnets du Cerpac. The issue n° 6 Revisiting Slave Narratives II was published in 2007. The issue n° 8 Postcolonial Ghosts is forthcoming in 2009.