Soko Phay is HDR Lecturer in History and Theory of Arts at Paris 8 University and EHESS. She has edited collective works on the aesthetics of the mirror in contemporary art and on the relationship between the arts and mass crimes, and has devoted several articles to these two subjects of study. Recent publications (selection): "Cambodia, the workshop of memory", dir. (Sonleuk Thmey editions, 2010), "Cambodia, the erased genocide", codir. with Pierre Bayard (Cécile Défaut, 2013), "Figurations of Postmemory: an Introduction", with Emmanuel Alloa and Pierre Bayard (University of Nebraska Press, "Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies", no 4.1, spring 2015), "Les Vertiges of the mirror in contemporary art "(Les Presses du Réel, 2016). Soko Phay is also co-founder with Pierre Bayard of the International Center for Research and Education on Mass Murders (Ciremm).