Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is a New Orleans-based scholar of Maghrebi literature, Mediterranean Studies, and the environmental humanities. She is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University, where she also holds affiliations with the Environmental Studies program and the Middle East and North African Studies program, which she founded. She is the long-time editor of Expressions maghrébines, the leading international journal of Maghrebi literature, and has served on the editorial or advisory boards of several other journals, including Yale French Studies and PMLA, the publication of the Modern Language Association. She is the author of The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean (2017), and coeditor of several books and special issues—most recently, Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (2025), Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean (2025), and Ecocritical Terrains: Rethinking Tamazghan and Middle Eastern Environments (forthcoming). She has lectured widely in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and has held visiting positions at the University of Tunis, Tunisia; Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès in France; Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy; as well as the Institute for Contemporary Art in Miami. She is Vice-President of the Center for Francophone Studies at the University of Leipzig and a co-editor of the “Passagen” book series published with Georg Olms Verlag in Germany. She currently serves as Professor Extraordinarius at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa.