Claire McKeown teaches English at Université de Lorraine in Nancy and Scandinavian Studies at Université de Strasbourg, France. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature from Université de Mulhouse in 2018. Her thesis is entitled "L'implacable lumière du nord: l’impressionnisme littéraire dans la littérature nordique et britannique à la fin du XIXe siècle." Her research focuses on pre-modernist aesthetics in British and Scandinavian literature, and she recently published the articles “'Scandimania’ and the Victorians: Exoticism or Self-identification?” in the journal Deshima and “The Sea Kings of the North: Scandinavian Scotland in Nineteenth-Century Literature” in Études Écossaises.