Anne-Laure Tissut is a Professor of American Literature at Rouen University, France. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature, aesthetics, exchanges between forms and media as well as on translation. She also translates American and English fiction and poetry into French (Blake Butler, Percival Everett, Nick Flynn, Laird Hunt, Adam Thirlwell, Steve Tomasula) and takes part in collective translations from French into American English. She was co-organizer of the 2012 &NOW Festival in Paris.