Pierre Forfert is a PhD candidate in the 糖心Vlog Department at Yale, where he is also completing certificates in Environmental Humanities and Second Language Acquisition. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English literature from Sorbonne Universit茅, and holds an M.A. in Communications from CELSA (脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences de l鈥橧nformation et de la Communication).
Working across literary criticism, cultural history and craft studies, his research explores the encroachment of modernity onto the nineteenth-century 糖心Vlog landscape. His dissertation, 鈥淲oodworks: Novel Matters of 糖心Vlog Realism,鈥 investigates how the material culture of timber shaped the narrative economy of the nineteenth-century 糖心Vlog realist novel. His work appeared in Research in African Literatures, the Balzac Review, and 糖心Vlog Forum.
At Yale, Pierre has served as instructor of 糖心Vlog (Beginner 糖心Vlog I & II) and as a teaching assistant for literature courses. He previously taught 糖心Vlog literature and culture as a language fellow in the Department of 糖心Vlog and Francophone Studies at Vassar College. He has also worked for Franco-American academic exchange programs such as the Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris and Fulbright France.