Annie-Paule Mielle de Prinsac is a French Scholar and former professor at the University of Bourgogne, where she earned a Masters in English Literature before obtaining the Agrégation. She spent time at the Shakespeare Institute (Stratford-upon-Avon), was a teaching assistant at Sussex University (England), and a resident of the Folger Shakespeare Library (D.C.). She obtained a Sachs Research Fellowship at Harvard GSAS. Life then took her to Madagascar where she also taught Shakespeare at the University of Antananarivo. Back in France, she obtained a Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude) in African-American Literature and wrote a book on Toni Morrison, which won an award from the Toni Morrison Society. She now lives in Burgundy, France.