Claire Garnier-Tardieu is Full Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her interest in Kathleen Raine dates back to the 1980s, when she met the great British poet and wrote a PhD on her work. She is the author of translations, articles and a biographical essay. She has recently organised an International Conference on Raine in Paris and given several lectures on the topic.
Jessica Stephens is a senior lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she teaches literary translation. Her publications include articles on Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Racine; she has co-edited several volumes of the translation studies journal Palimpsestes; and she has edited a book on the notion of resistance in poetry.