Sophie Vallas

I have been Professor of US contemporary literature at Aix-Marseille University since 2011. My research deals with US contemporary fiction and life-writing (autobiography, autofiction, memoirs). I published *Jerome Charyn et les siens. Autofictions* at Presses Universitaires de Provence (2013), and I edited *Conversations with Jerome Charyn* at The University Press of Mississippi (2014). I am the author of several essays on Paul Auster's work and I edited a collection of essays on his *Report from the Interior* ([e-rea, 2019](https://journals.openedition.org/erea/7956), and I am currently working on a monograph on his autobiographical work. I recently edited *Daniel Mendelsohn's Memoir-Writing. Rings of Memory* published by Lexington Books. At Aix-Marseille university, I am co-coordinator of the HÉPISTÉA research project (Histoire et épistémologie des études anglophones) which aims at recovering the development of English and American studies in France in its *[Dictionnaire des études anglophones en France: Histoire et Epistémologie.](https://anglistique.hypotheses.org/le-dictionnaire-des-etudes-anglophones-en-france)* I am also part of the "[Passeurs de la littérature des États-Unis en France](https://decentered.hypotheses.org/category/passeurs)" research project launched by Pr. Cécile Cottenet at Aix-Marseille University. In the LERMA's e-journal, *E-rea*, I created the [Grand entretien section](https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5648) in which former French academics in anglophone studies are invited to evoke their career in an ego-historical perspective. In *Transatlantica*, the French e-journal in American studies, I'm in charge of the "[Reconnaissances](https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6289)" section which publishes interviews of US writers.