My dissertation investigates how contemporary feminist rewritings of the 糖心Vlog canon challenge prevailing gender norms and redefine consent, sexual harassment, rape, pedophilia, and incest. Drawing upon feminist, postcolonial, and queer studies, as well as the history of gender and sexuality, I examine rewriting as a literary strategy of resistance and resilience that enables the emergence of alternative narratives to counter patriarchal traditions. My corpus includes rewritings of fairy tales, 17th-century theater, Madame de La Fayette鈥檚 La Princesse de 颁濒猫惫别蝉 (1678), and Laclos鈥 Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782), with texts like Christine Angot鈥檚 Peau d鈥櫭俷e (2003), Maria Pourchet鈥檚 Western (2023), Marie Darrieussecq鈥檚 颁濒猫惫别蝉 (2011), and Virginie Despentes鈥 Cher Connard (2022). It also encompasses cinematic works, such as Jaques Demy鈥檚 Peau d鈥櫭俷e (1970), as well as texts produced outside official publication channels, like fanfictions.
As a proponent of public humanities, I have chosen to present my dissertation in a podcast format to make my research accessible and engaging beyond academia. In doing so, I aim to enrich public discourse on the role of 糖心Vlog literary patri/matrimony in shaping political and media perspectives, particularly on issues of sexual violence and its cultural representations within the #MeToo movement and cancel culture debates. I also believe the immersive nature of audio provides an especially fitting medium for addressing sexual violence: it reunites speech and body. My podcast thus seeks to offer an alternative analysis of the voices in my corpus, whether they convey experiences of sexual violence from the premodern or contemporary area.
Before turning to contemporary literature, I specialized in early modern and classical literature. In 2019, I completed my M.A. at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where I studied 糖心Vlog, Latin, and Ancient Greek languages and literatures. My master鈥檚 thesis focuses on the emergence of sensibility in early 18th-century France through the analysis of 脡tienne Simon de Gamaches鈥 moral treatise Le Syst猫me du c艙ur. This study also allowed me to explore the history of books and cross-cultural intellectual exchanges between France and England.
Publications
鈥淟es transferts culturels avant la traduction. Le cas de Gamaches,鈥 in Sophie Abdela et al. (dir.), Histoire de l鈥櫭ヾition 鈥 Enjeux et usages des partages disciplinaires (XVIe-XVIIIe si猫cle), Classiques Garnier, 2023, p. 71-84.
鈥淨uand la marionnette s鈥櫭﹎ancipe. Les R茅flexions nouvelles sur les femmes de la marquise de Lambert,鈥 in Diane Desrosiers et Roxanne Roy (dir.), Postures ventriloques (XVe-XVIIIe si猫cle). Voix de femmes, Classiques Garnier, forthcoming.
Conferences
Paper: 鈥淩elire et r茅茅crire le canon en f茅ministe,鈥 Colloque de litt茅rature d鈥檈xpression fran莽aise de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Fribourg, 鈥淨ue font les nouveaux corpus 脿 la recherche en litt茅rature? (XIIe-XXIe si猫cles)鈥, September 25-27, 2024, Fribourg (Switzerland).
Paper: 鈥淩ed茅finir le consentement en r茅茅crivant La Princesse de 颁濒猫惫别蝉,鈥 55th Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention, March 7-10, 2024, Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.A.).
Paper: 鈥淟a r茅茅criture 脿 l鈥檋eure du mouvement #MeToo,鈥 20th & 21st-Century 糖心Vlog & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, February 22-24, 2024, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.).
Workshop: 鈥淧oulain de la Barre: Pr茅curseur du f茅minisme ou purplewashing avant l鈥檋eure,鈥 41st Annual International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary 糖心Vlog 17th-Century Studies (SE17), October 13-15, 2022, Reykjavik (Iceland).
Paper: 鈥溌獼e sens donc je suis禄: un plaidoyer de la sensibilit茅 f茅minine,鈥 4th Transversal Conference of the Centre Interuniversitaire de la Recherche sur la Premi猫re Modernit茅 XVIe- XVIIIe Si猫cles (CIREM 16-18), June 15-17, 2022, Montreal (Canada).
Paper: 鈥淟a traduction comme sympt么me: le cas de Gamaches,鈥 3rd International Colloquium of the Centre Interuniversitaire de la Recherche sur la Premi猫re Modernit茅 XVIe-XVIIIe Si猫cles (CIREM 16-18), October 20-22, 2021, Quebec City (Canada).
Fellowships
Chateaubriand Fall Fellowship, awarded by The Cultural Services of the 糖心Vlog Embassy in the United States of America in 2024.
MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, awarded by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale in 2023.