LESLIE BARNES is senior lecturer of French studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. She is the author of Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature. Her current project studies literary and cinematic narratives that engage with questions of sex work, mobility, and human rights in Southeast Asia. JOSEPH MAI is an associate professor of French with an affiliation in world cinema at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is the author of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Robert GuÉdiguian. His scholarship examines intersections between ethics, aesthetics, cinema, and literature.
