Agnès Schaffauser is Assistant Professor of French at the University of North Florida where she teaches courses on French language and French and Francophone culture and literature. She obtained her doctorate in Francophone Literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is an interdisciplinary scholar in Francophone Maghrebi and Sub-Saharan African cinema and literature. Her work includes research on migration studies and 20th/21st centuries French literature, graphic novel, and film. In 2019, she published a collective volume on French-Algerian writer Salim Bachi in L’Harmattan. Her article “‘The Toxic Father’ and ‘the Healing Daughter’ in Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women” appeared in The French Review (2017). Her most recent article, “The Wretched of the Sea: Clandestine Immigration and Graphic Artistry in Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Paris” appeared in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society (2021).