Lise Jaillant has recently defended her PhD in English at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation is on Random House and the Modern Library series. She has published articles in Book History and Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History.
Lise grew up in France, and moved to England to do an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been living in Vancouver since 2009.