Sarga Moussa is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and deputy director of the research unit Théorie et Histoire des Arts et des Littératures de la Modernité (THALIM), specializing in contemporary literature and the arts from the 19th to the 21st century. A specialist in literary Orientalism and in 19th and 20th century travel literature to the Orient, he focuses his research on the representation of cultural otherness (the nomad, the slave, and the black man) in French literature, on the discours raciologiques, and on postcolonial studies. He is the director of Viatica, an open access journal in the field of travel literature, and co-director, with Daniel Lançon, of the collection “Vers l’Orient” (Grenoble, UGA Éditions). He is a member of the European Network of Orientalism. He is responsible for the new edition of Théophile Gautier’s Travels as part of the latter’s Œuvres complètes, currently under publication by Champion. He is working, with Randa Sabry (Cairo University, Egypt), on the literary and cultural representations of the Suez Canal and is also preparing an anthology of European and Egyptian texts, to be published by UGA Éditions. Selected publications: S. Moussa (ed.), Le Mythe des Bohémiens dans la littérature et les arts en Europe, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2008; Franck Estelmann, Sarga Moussa, Friedrich Wolfzettel (ed.), Voyageuses européennes au XIXe siècle. Identités, genres, codes, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2012; Sarga Moussa, Alexandre Stroev (ed.), L’invention de la Sibérie par les voyageurs et écrivains français (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles), Paris, Institut d’Études Slaves, 2014; Sarga Moussa, Le Mythe bédouin chez les voyageurs aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, “Imago Mundi”, 2016; Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Sarga Moussa (ed.), Dialogues interculturels à l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale. Représentations littéraires et culturelles. Orient, Maghreb et Afrique occidentale (de 1830 à nos jours), Paris, Kimé, 2019; Philippe Antoine, Chloé Chaudet, Gilles Louÿs, S. Moussa (ed.), “La Littérature de voyage aujourd’hui. Héritages et reconfigurations”, La Revue des lettres modernes, series “Voyages contemporains”, 2021-2022.