Catherine Coquio is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Poitiers and creator of the centre of "Literature and knowledge when put to the test of political violence. Genocide and transmission" (Paris IV University). She is the president of the International association for research into crimes against humanity and genocide. (www.aircrige.org)
Her publications also include L'histoire trouée and Négation et témoignage with Atalante in 2003 and in 2007, L'enfant et le génocide and Témoignages sur l'enfance pendant la Shoah in the "Bouquins" collection with Laffont.