Bernard Aresu studied humanities at the Université de Montpellier, France, at the University of Virginia and the University of Washington, Seattle, where he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature. His research interests are in comparative and transnational studies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a special focus on the cultures of the Global South. His current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Mediterranean Fictions, examines issues of displacement and transculturalism in art and literature of the Franco-Mediterranean area.