Organizing Committee

 1) Scientific Organisation

Éliane ELMALEH, a Professor of American Civilization, teaches in the English Department at the Université du Maine, Le Mans, France. Her fields of research are contemporary art, African-American art, feminist and political discourses, the American medias and identity politics. She has published a number of articles in scholarly reviews such as Annales du Monde Anglophone, the Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, The European Journal of American Culture, E-rea and LISA (en e-journal). She recently co-edited a book entitled Résistances, which describes and analyzes the different political movements which recently emerged in countries such as Canada, Cuba, Spain, the US, Greece, France or Tunisia in reaction to the global economic crisis.

Salah OUESLATI is an Associate Professor of North-American Studies at the Université of Poitiers, France. He is the local referent for both the Institut des Amériques and the Power Studies Network. This network, which brings together researchers from various research groups (Caen’s ERIBIA, the Le Mans 3L.AM, Paris Ouest Nanterre’s CREA and the Poitiers MIMMOC) organized the following conferences in the past: “Minorities and Power in the Anglophone World” (Caen, 2008), “Who Governs in the Americas and in Europe?” (Poitiers, 2012), and “Money, Power, Representations in the Americas and in Europe” (Paris Ouest Nanterre, 2014). He has written numerous articles on lobbies in the United States and Canada. 

Pierre Guerlain is a Professor of American Studies at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France. His fields of research are U.S. foreign policy, discourse analysis, and intercultural studies. Professor Guerlain has worked extensively on “anti-Americanism” and the image of the U.S. abroad. He has also published a number of articles on social and political movements in the U.S. Professor Guerlain’s book about the mutual perceptions of the Americans and the French is titled Miroirs transatlantiques: la France et les Etats-Unis entre passions et indifférences. It was published by L’Harmattan in 1996.

Taoufik DJEBALI holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4). He is an Associate Professor at the Caen University. He has published numerous articles on American society and economy (among which "Pauvreté et politique sociale sous la présidence Obama : vers une tentative d'évaluation", an attempt at assessing President Obama’s social policy toward the poor), and edited several works, among which Minorités et pouvoirs dans les pays anglophones and Marginalité et politiques sociales : réflexions autour de l'exemple américain. He belongs to the ERIBIA, a research group based at the Caen University.

 2) Logistical Organisation

The practical organization of the conference (programme, website, handouts, poster, hotel reservations, coffee breaks, etc.) will be taken care of by:

* Eliane ELMALEH (Professor, American Civilization)

* Xavier LACHAZETTE (Associate Professor, British Literature)

* Delphine HUET (Secretary of the 3L.AM Research Group)

* Students from the English Department at the Université du Maine, Le Mans.