Michèle Perret

She lived in Algeria until 1955, first on a farm near to Sfissef (once known as Mercier-Lacombe),^[2] and then in Oran. Towards the end of her secondary education she settled in Paris.^[3] After qualifying as an agrégée in modern literature, she went on to a doctorate in literature and humanities.

Her academic career has almost all been spent as a professor of medieval language at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.^[4]

After a dissertation^[5] about shifters in Middle French^[6][7] her subsequent research has included: promoting, editing and translating of medieval tales; Narratology, especially earlier narratology (12th to 15th centuries); the linguistics of utterance; and history of the French language.

Her literary work is mainly concerned with the colonial and postcolonial Maghreb, particularly Algeria.