Stéphanie Prévost is Senior Lecturer in 19th-century British History at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She has published journal articles on 19th-century British political history, representations of the Orient and the role of the media in humanitarian diplomacy.Bénédicte Deschamps is Associate Professor in American Studies at Paris Diderot University - Paris 7, France. She is the co-editor of Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness (2007), alongside Michel Prum and Marie-Claude Barbier.