Heidi Bostic holds a Ph.D. in French from Purdue University in Indiana and a Diplome d'etudes approfondies en Sciences du langage from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. She is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Gender Studies at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of several articles on French literature, feminist theory, and semiotics. Her published translations include Luce Irigaray's book