Margaret Rigaud-Drayton teaches French literature at Christ s College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal Sign (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as related articles on Michaux and aspects of twentieth-century French and Belgian word and image texts. She is currently working on a study of hybrid verbal and visual self-portraits from Gauguin to Surrealism.