Mireille Rosello teaches in the department of Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her recent publications include The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress (2009), France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters (2005) and Postcolonial Hospitality: the Immigrant as Guest (2001). Her books in French include Littérature et identité créole aux Antilles, and studies of André Breton and Michel Tournier. She edited and was the main translator of Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to My Native Land / Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Bloodaxe Books, 1995).