Pamela Pears is former Professor of French at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and French Instructor at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware. She is the author of Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing: Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect (2015) and Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War (2004), as well as an edited volume with Valérie K. Orlando, Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile (2019).