Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd is Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France, where she teaches American and English literature as well as literary translation. She has published mostly on contemporary American fiction, notably on Thomas Pynchon, and translated Walker Percy and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Her current work on the interplay of poetic schemes and narrative has led her to focus on the lesserknown fiction of American poet Fanny Howe.