Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. She is the author of Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec (2024), Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec, and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l’image (2012).