Lucy R. McNair is a translator of French who has focused on North Africa and North African immigrant communities in France. Her translation of /The Poor Man's Son/, Mouloud Feraoun's 1950 Algerian classic, which will also be the basis of her dissertation, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2005. Ms. McNair has a B.A. in German Studies from the University of Massachusetts and a M.A. in Translation Studies from the University of Paris VIII. She has taught courses in World Humanities at City College and was a Writing Fellow at Queensborough Community College. She has translated regularly for the Canadian Cultural Institute in Paris and for /Sites/, a journal of Contemporary French Studies. She is currently translating a memoir by the Algerian-born French women's rights activist Samira Bellil. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her two children.