Guignery Vanessa

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English Literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. She is the author of several books and essays on the work of Julian Barnes, including The Fiction of Julian Barnes (Macmillan, 2006), and Conversations with Julian Barnes (Mississippi Press, 2009). She has published articles on several British and Indian contemporary writers, as well as a monograph on B.S. Johnson, This is not Fiction (Sorbonne UP, 2009), and translated Jonathan Coe’s biography of B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, into French (Quidam, 2010). She is the editor of several collections of essays including (Re)mapping London (Publibook, 2008) and Voices and Silence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).