Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of French and American Noir (2009, co-authored with Deborah Walker), Paris and the Fetish: Primal Crime Scenes (2014) and Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire (2018, co-authored with Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan). His edited volumes on crime fiction include Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (2019, co-edited with Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King), which was shortlisted for the International Crime Fiction Association prize, and Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction (2018), which was longlisted for the same prize.