Christophe Collard holds a doctorate in language and literature (Brussels, 2009) and has taught at universities and colleges in Belgium, Spain, China and the Philippines, as well as holding research fellowships in the USA and his second home, Canada. Author of numerous journal articles, he has also written a monograph entitled Artist on the Make: David Mamet's Work Across Media and Genres (2012), which was shortlisted for the 2014 biannual prize of the European Society for the Study of English. Currently a lecturer at the Université de Moncton, he combines his academic activities with writing and translation work for the agance Prokopê, which he founded in 2019.