Beatrice PireBeatrice Pire is an Associate Professor in American literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in Paris. Her research area is American fiction after 1945 and postmodernism. Pierre-Louis Patoine is an Assistant professor of American literature at the orbonne-Nouvelle, co-director of the Science/Literature research group (litorg.hypotheses.org) and co-editor of the journal epistemocritique.org. Read More Read Less