Michelle Beauclair received her B.S.L.A. in French from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches French and Francophone culture courses at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, W.A., and advanced Francophone literature courses at Seattle Pacific University. She has also taught a Francophone course in Paris for the Washington Consortium of Community Colleges. She is the author of Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, and the Legacy of Mourning (Peter Lang, 1998).