
Photographer: Marie-Louise Desage
and Aurélie Ribière
I come from Loire-Atlantique, but I have been living in Toulouse for a long time. I'm an English teacher, but also a tea addict, a music buff, and I have been a fiction lover since I was a child. I am particularly fond of horror and the fantastic, but I really love and live by and for literature, cinema and comics more generally. I wrote the essay
Myth and Fabulation in the Fantasy Fiction of Neil Gaiman (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018 for the
original French version; McFarland, 2026 for the upcoming
English language edition), the historical horror novel
Grand-Guignol
(Anacharsis, October 2026)*, and several articles on Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Lovecraft, comics, music,
rewritings of Shakespeare, British, American and Chinese fantasy and horror, Chinese poetry and translation, and North Korean cinema, for the French journals
Otrante ,
Caliban and
Miranda, the American journals
Shofar,
Studies in the Novel and
Utopian Studies, the British journal
Studies in Comics, the Hong Kong journal
Cha , and the books
Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010),
Visualizing Jewish Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2016) and
Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023). I've also co-edited
issue 63 of
Caliban , which features articles by various authors, studying how fantasy and science fiction dramatize today's societal and environmental crises and theories of systemic collapse (Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2021).
*This novel was first published in a slightly different version, by Les Presses Littéraires, under the title Sang de bœuf (Bouchers et acteurs) from 2019 to 2025.





