Author Biography
Isabelle Gras is a schoolteacher and a PhD student at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, under the supervision of professor Nicole Ollier, among the research team CLIMAS. Her research focuses on the relationships between text and images in picture books as well as the role of metaphor in visual and textual narration in a selection of picture books by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, Shaun Tan, and Brian Selznick. She co-organized the conference on “The Enclave in the Anglophone World” and gave presentations at conferences in Bordeaux, at the 2015 SAES congress in Toulon and at ESSE 13th conference in Galway in 2016. In 2015, she published an article focusing on the child’s voice and gaze in dual audience literature, in Leaves.
