Rachel E. Ney

Rachel E. Ney earned a Licence, Maîtrise, and D.E.A. from the University of Nancy 2 (France) in contemporary American Literature. Her research interests include French and Anglo American transnational literatures, phenomenology, and problems of translation in multilingual and transnational sites. In 2008, she was awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship for her dissertation project entitled, “The Literary Spaces of Vision in the Transnational Fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Yves Berger, Antonin Artaud, and J.M.G. Le Clézio.” She co-authored with Paul Breslin (English, Northwestern) a translation of Aimé Césaire’s La Tragédie du Roi Christophe. She has published several essays in both French and English and has contributed to the first French critical volume on Cormac McCarthy.