Christine Evain teaches at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes. She has written articles on the book industry and on several of authors including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Flannery O'Connor, Ford Maddox Ford and John Steinbeck. She wrote her doctoral thesis on Margaret Atwood's poetry and she has recently co-edited a volume entitled Poems open the doors. Novels are the corridors which includes an in-depth interview with Margaret Atwood. She is currently working on several volumes containing a series of interviews with Canadian editors, publishers and authors (including Mavis Gallant).