Armelle Parey is a senior lecturer at the Université de Caen Normandie. Her interests include narrative endings, memory and rewritings of the past in contemporary English-speaking fiction, with a special emphasis on the neo-Victorian novel. She has co-edited several collections of essays on the question of narrative closure.
In the course of the many conferences organised at Caen and abroad, she invited A.S. Byatt (2015), Ian McEwan (2018) and Patricia Duncker (2019). She has recently co-edited A.S. Byatt, Before and After Possession: Recent Critical Approaches (PU de Nancy-Editions de Lorraine, 2017) and Reading Ian McEwan's Mature Fiction: New Critical Approaches (PU de Nancy-Editions de Lorraine, 2020), Adapting Endings from Book to Screen (Routledge, 2020) and edited Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (Routledge, 2019).