Sandrine Marchand graduated from the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot in Chinese studies. She teaches at the University of Artois. As a specialist in Taiwanese literature, she is particularly interested in poetic writing, the practices and theories of translation and the genesis of works. She translates and studies the novels of the writer Wang Wen-hsing 王文興.She has published, in collaboration with Samia Ferhat, the translation of Wang’s novel Île de mémoires.