Julie Assouly is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d'Artois, France. Her research focuses on American contemporary auteur cinema (the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson), the representation of the working class, and issues of intermediality and interculturality. She is the author of Wes Anderson, cinéaste transatlantique (2024) and the co-editor (with Marianne Kac-Vergne) of From the Margins to the Mainstream (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

Esther Heboyan is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of Artois in Arras, France. She is a writer and journalist, and her publications on cinema include Les Variations Jarmusch (2017) and San Francisco mis en scenes (2018).