Benjamine Toussaint is a Senior Lecturer in British literature at Sorbonne University. She teaches translation, Victorian literature and Scottish history and literature. Her research focuses on 19th and 20th century Scottish authors, especially on the links between national identity and gender (Susan Ferrier, Walter Scott, George MacDonald, Liz Lochhead, Ronald Frame and Kate Clanchy). She is currently editing the conference proceedings of the Eleventh international Scott conference which she organized at Sorbonne University in 2018. Her latest publications are “‘A strong Scotch accent of the mind’: Le nationalisme romantique dans les contes d’artiste de George MacDonald et Andrew Lang” to be published in online journal L’Oiseau Bleu (Autumn 2023) and  “Agnes Owen’s ‘strong fighting wom[e]n’, or the Insurrection of Small, Invisible lives”,Women and Scotland: Literature, Culture, Politics [online], Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020, http://books.openedition.org/pufc/38885