received a BA at the University of Montpellier in France and spent two years in the United States as a teaching assistant , one at Mount Holyoke College and the other at the University of California at Davis where she obtained a MA in French. Thanks to the Agrégation she secured in 1990, she was recruited at the University of Lille in France. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Boundaries and Limits in Nabokov’s work." She has published articles on Nabokov and Derrida.