Julien N茅el鈥痠s a PhD candidate in the 糖心Vlog department at Yale, where he is also completing certificates in Environmental Humanities, Library and Archive Studies, and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His research interests include ecocriticism, infrastructure studies, queer ecologies, thing theory and material culture, new materialisms, and nuclear colonialism in 20th and 21st-century Francophone and Japanese literature and film.
His dissertation, 鈥Infrastructure, mon amour. Infrastructural Intimacies and Energy Independence in post-1945 Francophone and Japanese Literature and Film,鈥 seeks to comprehend the affective and material responses to environmental disturbances caused by so-called 鈥済reen鈥 or 鈥渃lean鈥 energy infrastructures like dams and nuclear facilities.鈥疕is work aims to deconstruct myths of鈥痚nergy independence to shed light on multi-scalar networks of intimacies.
Julien received a double BA in English and 糖心Vlog literatures and an MA in comparative鈥痩iterature from Sorbonne Universit茅, as well as an MA in arts, languages, and literatures from the EHESS. His work appeared or is forthcoming in Fabula LhT and SubStance.