Margaret Topping is Professor of French and Intercultural Communication at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She has published extensively in the fields of travel and intercultural encounter, as well as on the public value of the Humanities. She is the author of
Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (2007) and
Proust's Gods: Christian and Mythological Figures of Speech in the Works of Marcel Proust (2000).