Lily Robert-Foley is Maîtresse de Conférences at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, specializing in translation. She is currently self-translating her doctoral dissertation on the Third Texte, a creative reading device for deforming the space between translations. She is the author of m, a book of poetry-critique-collage (Corrupt Press, 2013), graphemachine, a chapbook of visual poetry (Xerolage, 2013), Jiji, a book of prose poems and conceptual writing (forthcoming Omnia Vanitas Press) and Money, Math and Measure (forthcoming, Essay Press chapbook series). She is currently writer in residence at the Gula Summer Institute in Maine where she is working on the figural alliances between translation and digestion, with a particular focus on lobster.