Associate professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Reunion Island since 2008. Her research is mainly devoted to the comparative study of Arabic, European and, more recently, Indian Ocean literatures. She has been series Editor-in-chief since 2017 for the non-western literatures of Connaissances et Savoirs, which is supervised by an international scientific committee. She published her thesis Penser le fantastique en context arabe (“Thinking the Fantastic in an Arab Context”), 2010, and a French translation of an essay written by the Arab poet Adonis, Al-Sufiyya wa al-suryaliya (Soufisme and Surrealism) (2016). Courriel : benedicte.letellier@univ-reunion.fr