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 Ph.D. from Purdue University, an M.A. from Mankato State University, and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. His other publications include Disordered Bodies and Disrupted Borders: Representations of Resistance in Modern British Literature (University Press of America, 1999) and Le miroir de la société: la violence institutionnelle chez Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing et Pat Barker (Longo Editore Ravenna, 2003).