Barbara Havercroft is Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to this university, she taught for eight years (1991-1999) in the Departement d'etudes litteraires at the Université du Québéc à Montreal. In previous years, she also taught in the undergraduate program in Semiotics at Victoria College, University of Toronto (1984-1989). Professor Havercroft’s areas of interest are: I. Literary Theory (feminism; semiotics); II. Contemporary French, Quebecois and German fiction (particularly women's prose); III. Theories and practices of contemporary women's life-writing. Professor Havercroft's current research deals with subjectivity and agency in recent women's autobiographical writings (SSHRC funded project) and with the development of a feminist theory of discursive agency. The author of a forthcoming book entitled Oscillation and Subjectivity: Problems of Enunciation in the Contemporary French and German Novel (University of Toronto Press), Professor Havercroft is presently completing a manuscript entitled Voix intimes: sujet, sexe et genre dans les avatars autobiographiques actuels. Professor Havercroft also published extensively in edited volumes and learned journals, and edited several special journal issues on topic such as semiotics and literature, Québéc women's autobiographical writings, and enunciation theories. Professor Havercroft was Associate Editor (1990-1993), and then Editor in Chief (1993-1996) of an international learned journal on semiotics, Recherches semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry (RS/SI).