Elodie Duché is Senior Lecturer in History at York St John University (United Kingdom). Her research focuses on transnational encounters and travel writing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular emphasis on France and Britain and their respective colonies. She has published on various aspects of experiences of war captivity during the period, including a study of charity networks for British prisoners of war secluded in Napoleonic France, and works on life-writing, gender and race in detention. She is currently at work on a transnational history of entomophagy and is the co-founder with Franziska Neumann at Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany) of an interdisciplinary research network entitled ‘Ugh! Disgust, Repugnant Matters and the Construction of Difference, c.1700-1900’, which gathers eighteen scholars in the field, from Hong Kong to New York. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2677-6854