Dr. Aurélia Mouzet received her Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research focuses on the intersection of myths, religion, and politics in literature, theatre, and cinema of the Black Atlantic. She is affiliated with the University of Western Paris research institute “Littérature et poétique comparée.” Dr. Mouzet is revising her dissertation into a monograph that investigates female figurations of Christ in twentieth and twenty-first century Black Atlantic literature, theatre, and cinema and finishing a research project that focuses on the myth of Moses and the Promised Land in Black Atlantic fiction. At the University of Arizona, Dr. Mouzet teaching courses in Francophone cultures, civilizations, and literature.