Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud, France), professor of English literature, and senior researcher for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Her interests are in British colonial literature and Indian literature in English. She is the author of Le roman anglo-indien de Kipling à Paul Scott (1999) and Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (2002).