Yolaine Parisot is  Professor of Francophone and Comparative Literature at the University of Paris-Est Créteil, where she is responsible for the strategic axis “Francophonies and Plurilingualisms” and a member of the research center “Lettres, Idées, Savoirs” – UR 4395. She is particularly interested in the relationship between literature (fiction), history and politics (Haiti, the Caribbean, Africa). Past-president of the International Council of Francophone Studies (CIÉF), she is currently director of the Ecole Universitaire de Recherche (Graduate School)  of Greater Paris FRAPP “Francophonies and Plurilingualisms: the Politics of Language” (ANR-18-EURE-0015 FRAPP) and is a member of the scientific council of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’esclavage (Foundation for the Remembrance of Slavery). Her recent publications include her book Regards littéraires haïtiens. Cristallisations de la fiction-monde (Classiques Garnier, 2018) and several edited books or special issues  such as Pour un récit transnational. La fiction au défi de l’histoire immédiate, 2015 (co-edited with Charline Pluvinet), Dany Laferrière, Interculturel Francophonies, 2016, Pouvoir de la littérature. De l’energeia à l’empowerment, 2019 (co-edited with Emmanuel Bouju and Charline Pluvinet) or Crises de la démocratie : quelles médiations des arts ” francophones ” contemporains, special issue of Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, vol. 36, n°1&2, 2021. Her next book project, on postcolonial fiction, will  be published by Classiques Garnier.