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Research Interests
- 20th and 21st century French literature, culture, and thought
- Aesthetics and visual arts; (inter)mediality
- Fiction and non-fiction
Research Description
My interdisciplinary research and teaching draws on literature and literary theory, visual and media culture, critical theory as well as psychoanalytic theory.
My book Réalités pseudonymes (Brill Rodopi, 2020) focuses on proper names in French literature and arts in order to show how media (“new,” “old,” and “mixed”) articulate reality, as societies shift from analog to digital modes of mediation. I analyze a variety of works by authors and artists who bring to the fore proper names and introduce disturbances in their referential mechanisms, in order to show how "reality" is constituted and how it can be faked, transformed or suspended.
I am currently working on two projects. The first project, provisionally titled “Qui, ‘nous’?” Penser la République avec Jean-François Lyotard, engages with Jean-François Lyotard’s philosophical elaboration of French republicanism. The second project explores the recent multiplication of literary accounts of adverse childhood experience in France in the works of authors such as Chloé Delaume, Vanessa Springora, Axelle Jah Njiké, Camille Kouchner, or Neige Sinno.
Education
I studied literature and philosophy in Strasbourg, Berlin, and Paris, before pursuing a Ph.D. in French with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies at Emory University
Courses Taught
- FR 212 Introduction to Cultural Analysis
- FR 322 Movements and Perspectives
- FR 324 Literature and the Other Arts
- FR 387 Media and Cinema in French
- FR 579 Seminar in French Literature
- FR 543 Seminar in French Studies
Additional Campus Affiliations
- European Union Center
- Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- Program in Comparative and World Literature
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Highlighted Publications
Réalités pseudonymes. Leiden, Boston, Brill Rodopi, series “Chiasma” vol. 45, 2020.
Traversals of Affect: On Jean-François Lyotard (with Claire Nouvet and Mark Stoholski). London, Bloomsbury, 2016.
Recent Publications
« “Out of Your System”: On Jean-François Lyotard’s Libidinal Set-Ups », in Libidinal Economies of Crises Times. The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism, éd. B. Gook, Berlin: Transcript, “Culture & Theory” vol. 253 (2024): p. 59-73
‘Entroposcenic’!: Representing Nature in the Exhibition Desert Now and some works by Julian Charrière,” in “Disassembling and Reassembling Cultures in the Desert/ Défaire et refaire les cultures dans le desert,” eds Denis M. Provencher and Alain-Philippe Durand, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES, Volumes 28.3 and 28.4 (Fall 2024)
“Mémoires de filles : stratégies pronominales et politique du témoignage chez Annie Ernaux et Vanessa Springora.“ in ”Politique du genre et engagement,” eds Barbara Havercroft and Pascal Michelucci, Critical Review of French Contemporary Fixxion n°27 (Fall 2023)
“‘Je te crois’ (I believe you): Pragmatics of a Feminist Slogan, or Silencing and the Scene of Address in Post-#metoo France.” European Journal of Cultural Studies (online first, 2023)
“Returning Home (?), or Dwelling in The Pixel Age: On Invader’s Intermedial Space Invasion.” in André Habib, Suzanne Paquet, Carl Therrien (eds), Returning (Nostalgia), Intermédialités/Intermediality n°39 (Spring 2022)