Vanessa Guignery is professor of contemporary British and postcolonial literature at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in France. She is author of Seeing and Being: Ben Okri's "The Famished Road" and editor of "The Famished Road": Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands and of a special issue of Callaloo on Ben Okri. In 2022, she edited a special issue of the journal Études anglaises on contemporary Nigerian literature. She is coeditor (with Ryan Roberts) of Conversations with Julian Barnes, published by University Press of Mississippi.