Cécile Alduy is a professor of French studies at Stanford University, and an associate scholar at the Center for the Study of French Political Life at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.. She is the author of Ce qu’ils disent vraiment. Les politiques pris aux mots (What They Really Mean: Politicians Taken Literally, Seuil 2017) and Marine Le Pen prise aux mots. Décryptage du nouveau discours frontiste (Marine Le Pen Taken Literally: Deciphering the New Discourse of the National Front, Seuil 2015).