Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt (born 4 January 1942 in Algiers) is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.
[1] The daughter of Henri de Foucaucourt [fr], a colonel of Cavalry, banker and journalist, and Charlotte Goüin, Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt married Alexander Jordis-Lohausen.
[2] A graduate of the Sorbonne and Harvard University, she moved to London to prepare her PhD thesis on black humour in English literature and taught there for several years.
On her return to France, she became responsible for English literature at the British Council (1979–1991).
From 1991 to 2012, Christine Jordis was director of English fiction at Éditions Gallimard and a member of the reading committee of the publishing house.