Alexandra Poulain is Professor of Postcolonial literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. She is the author of Homo Famelicus: le théâtre de Tom Murphy (Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2008) and of Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Palgrave, 2016), and has published widely on modern and contemporary Irish drama, with a special interest in the works of W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Se is also interested in queer studies and visual studies, in particular in the work of South African visual artist and activist Zanele Muholi. She is one of the founding members of the "Shame" network (hosted by research units Prismes and Crew at the Sorbonne Nouvelle) which federates research on the representations and politics of shame in the English-speaking world.