Julie Gaillard

My interdisciplinary research and teaching draws on literature and literary theory, visual and media culture, feminist studies, 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 a project provisionally titled Moi Aussi: The French "Me Too" as a Literary Uprising Against Patriarchal Violence, which 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, Neige Sinno, and others. I am also working on a second project, “Qui, ‘nous’?” Penser la République avec Jean-François Lyotard, engaging with Jean-François Lyotard’s philosophical elaboration of French republicanism.