Mariah Devereux Herbeck is Professor of French at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. She has published articles in French Forum, French Literature Series (FLS), The French Review, Romance Notes and Women in French Studies. In her book, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature: A Study of Narrative Drift (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2013), she examines the destabilizing narrative effect of wandering women in 20th-century French film and literature. Her current research investigates the complex yet often overlooked narrative role played by the female concierge in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and film.