Marie Herbillon lectures in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium. A member of CEREP (Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales), which she currently co-directs, she has completed a PhD entitled “Beyond the Line: Murray Bail’s Spatial Poetics” and published articles in international journals such as Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. She is also the General Editor of The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA). Her research interests include postcolonial (particularly Australian) literatures, spatial studies, ecofeminism, autobiographical studies, trauma studies, cultural history, translation studies and intermediality. Her latest research project addresses the themes of history and migration in J.M. Coetzee’s late fiction.