Anne-Marie Christin is professor emeritus at Denis Diderot University Paris 7 and co-director of the Center détude de lécriture et de limage (Center for the study of writing and image CEEI). Author of numerous publications (see http://www.ceei.univ-paris7.fr/), her essentially interdisciplinary research aims to identify the presence of the image in different writing systems, as well as to analyze the influence of visual arts on literature in France in the 19th and 20th centuries from the point of view of the role played by ideogram civilizations.