ISABELLE FAVRE, an associate Professor of French originally from Switzerland, received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her specialty is Francophone literature; she is mainly interested in the theoretical aspects of linguistic variety within the same language. She teaches courses on literatures from the Caribbean, Québec, Switzerland and France, focusing on specific approaches such as négritude, créolité, postmodernism and narratology. She has delivered conference papers nationally and internationally. She is the author of "La différance francophone" published in 2001.