Hélène Aji is Chair Professor of American literature at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the director of research center UMR 8241 “République des savoirs,” and a vice-president of the Institut des Amériques. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017, at the University of Chicago in November 2022, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in November 2024, and has been a regular Guest Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. In addition to articles on 20^th- and 21^st-century American poetry, she is the author of Ezra Pound et William Carlos Williams: Pour une poétique américaine (L’Harmattan, 2001), William Carlos Williams: Un plan d’action (Belin, 2004) and a book-length essay on Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (Armand Colin, 2005). She co-edited several journal issues and volumes among which a collection of essays on the poetry of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot Agoniste, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2024).