Marie Kondrat is a researcher in comparative literature and a specialist in theories of the image. Her book on the concept of off-screen (“hors-champ”), Assia Djebar, le hors-champ de l’écriture, currently being published, was awarded of the Barbour Prize in Literary and Aesthetic Criticism and the Latsis University Prize 2022. She writes in French, Ukrainian and English, and reads in Italian and Russian. Her current research project focuses on women with a double activity, as filmmaker and writer.

Akila Kizzi is a lecturer in department of Gender Studies at University of Paris 8. She is a member of gender studies and sexuality Research Laboratory. Her research work focuses on women writers and artists in North Africa, and translating ethnicity and subjectivity into art.
In her doctoral research, she worked on the intellectual and political career of the first north African woman writer Taos Amrouche in a colonial and postcolonial context, published by Fauves Passions et déchirements identitaires chez Taos Amrouche (2019).
She also wrote a chapter in a collective book Under the skin: Feminist art from the middle east and north Africa today on Indigenous Algerian Women Artists in the French Landscape: Baya Mahieddine and Taos Amrouche, published by British Academy in 2020.