Robert Payne works for Lex Academic, a company that specializes in providing impeccable proofreading and copy-editing to academics worldwide. Before joining Lex, he studied for a PhD in French Studies at the University of Leicester (2013-17) and taught English at the Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse) in France (2017-19). He then became Lecturer in French at the University of Hertfordshire (2019-21). His primary research interests are in gender studies and contemporary French literature. Reimagining the Family is his first book.