Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montpellier 3. She has published extensively on major modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf (Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 62, octobre 2005; Journal of the Short Story in English 50, July 2008) and published Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). She is the editor, with J.-M. Ganteau, of Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19^th- to 21^st-Century British Literature, PULM, 2013). She recently organized, with B. Coste and C. Delyfer, the 2013 European Science Foundation Workshop on Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940. Her latest publications include ‘The Outrageousness of Outrage in Daphne du Maurier’s “Monte Verità”,’ Études britanniques contemporaines 45 (déc. 2013) http://ebc.revues.org/577 and ‘Virginia Woolf’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy,’ John Hopkins University Press, Philosophy and Literature 38/1 (April 2014).