Lise Lefebvre is a 4th year Ph.D. student at the Université Paul-Valéry. She is writing a thesis under Jean-Michel Ganteau’s supervision and works as an assistant lecturer at Université Paul-Valéry and at the Université de Nîmes. She is a member of the SAES as well as an active member of her laboratory, EMMA. Her thesis is entitled “Dedans, dehors: faction, romance et éthique dans les récits de vie ackroydiens” and offers an analysis on contemporary English writer Peter Ackroyd’s life narratives. She first started working on the dichotomy between facts and fiction for her master’s degree, for which she spent a year at the University of Cambridge (UK), submitting a thesis on the textual relationship between Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare. She then decided to focus on contemporary literature. In the spring of 2022, she gave a paper on Ackroyd and Faction in EMMA’s day conference for doctoral students, followed by a presentation during the 2023 SAES Conference.