Cristelle Terroni is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. She was received at the agrégation in 2006 and teaches American history. She completed a PhD thesis on American alternative spaces in the 1970s, adopting a historical as well as an artistic point of view. Her PhD thesis is soon to be published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. She currently teaches at UPEC