Claire de Duras Author

Chris Miller is a critic and translator. A noted specialist in art history, he has translated some sixty books, including the correspondence of Odilon Redon and Andries Bonger. He is cofounder of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, a correspondent of European Photography, and contributing editor to the Warwick Review. His translations of the poetry of Érico Nogueira have appeared in PN Review and from Clutag Press. Pratima Prasad is Professor of French at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, Member of the Advisory Board of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies journal, and Vice-President of the George Sand Studies Association. She has published book-length works and articles on French Romantic authors such as George Sand, Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, and Claire de Duras, as well as the relationship between literature, slavery, and colonialism in the nineteenth century.