Martine Fernandes
http://www.stpt.usf.edu
University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg

Martine Fernandes is an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg. She is agrégée and doctor of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on cognitive linguistics and francophone writers, especially migrant writing in France. She publihed articles and a book entitled Les écrivaines francophones en liberté: Farida Belghoul, Maryse Condé, Assia Djebar, Calixthe Beyala (L'Harmattan 2007).