About Author

David Waterman is Maître de conférences (associate professor) in English at the Université de La Rochelle, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, France, as well as a member of the Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches Britanniques at the Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, France. Dr. Waterman holds a PhD from Purdue University, and his publications include Identity in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction, Disordered Bodies and Disrupted Borders: Representations of Resistance in Modern British Literature, and Le miroir de la société: la violence institutionnelle chez Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing et Pat Barker.