Carine Bourget is professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of French & Italian, and affiliated with the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. Her areas of research include Islam in Francophone Literature and Culture, and Islam in France. Her second book (The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent) was selected by Choice as a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title.

FABIAN ALFIE received his Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a specialization in the Middle Ages. He has published extensively on medieval Italian literature and has given numerous talks on Dante. He has received two Superior Teaching Awards from the Humanities Seminars Program, as well as a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Humanities.      

MARIE-PIERRE LE HIR, Professor Emerita since 2021, specializes in modern French literature and culture. Her publications include dozens of articles and several books: Le Romantisme aux Enchères (Benjamins, 1992); French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads (SUNY, 2000); The National Habitus: Ways of Feeling French, 1789-1871 (De Gruyter, 2014), and French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America (McFarland, 2022).

PHYLLIS TAOUA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and is affiliated with Africana Studies, the Honors College, the Human Rights Program and the World Literature Program. She teaches courses on African literature and cinema, Critical Theory, and Pan-African Protest Movements. Author of two books and dozens of articles, she is the recipient of the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation award and is Resident Fellow at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard.