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Vivienne Orchard is a Lecturer in French at the University of Southampton. She studied French and Spanish at the University of Oxford before completing an MA in European Languages, Literature, and Thought and a PhD in French at the University of London, supported by a British Academy studentship. Prior to her appointment, she worked as a lectrice at the University of Paris XIII and as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include Francophone film, literature, cultural theory, disability studies, and cultural representation in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is particularly focused on the intersections of migration and displacement, as well as examining how UK institutions create and uphold structural marginalization of disabled people from the early twentieth century to the present, with a specific interest in the genealogies of mental disability and eugenics.