Rajae Benchemsi
Born in Meknes, lives and works in Marrakech. Rajae Benchemsi is a poet, novelist, writer and art critic. She is a former lecturer in the history of ideas at the École Normale Supérieure of Meknès and a former presenter on the 2M television channel. She has numerous publications to her credit, including collections of poetry and novels, an essay on art and two monographs on Farid Belkahia, one published by Editions Skira Paris and the other by Editions Venise Cadre. In 2015, she founded the Farid Belkahia Foundation, of which she is President, and in 2016 the Mathaf Farid Belkahia Museum. She is a member of AICA-France (International Association of Art Critics).
Peter Eubanks
Peter Eubanks (Ph.D. Princeton) is Professor French at James Madison University. HIs research and teaching interests center around early modern French poetry (including Christine de Pisan, Marguerite d'Autriche, and Marguerite de Navarre) and cross-cultural encounters and misunderstandings (particularly in the Franco-American space). His articles have appeared in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, Montaigne Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Literature and Belief, and other venues. His keynote address on "The History of French at James Madison University: Insights and Inflection Points" is the result of a collaboration with several first-year female undergraduate students under the auspices of the JMU First-Year Research Experience Program (FYRE).
