Doctoral Student (she/they)
Coordinator of the Canada Center for the Institut des Amériques (2023-2026)
Vice-President for International Relations at the SAGEF (Society for the Study of Women, Sex and Gender in English Studies, affiliated to the SAES)
Member of the research group Women & the F-Word
Member of the AFEC (French Association for Canadian Studies) and the INES-Canada (International Network for Emerging Scholars in Canadian Studies, affiliated to the ICCS)
Member of the RÉEL (International Network for the Study of Lesbian Expressions)
Research areas
- 20th and 21st century queer literature in Canada and the United States
- Lesbian and queer literary studies
- Gender and transfeminist studies
- Metaphors
- Self-narratives, life-writing and autobiography
Research period
20th and 21st century
Education
- 2023-2026: PhD, English Studies, Aix-Marseille University
- 2020-2021: M.A., Cultural Studies (English-Speaking World), Aix-Marseille University
- 2014-2016: M.A., European Studies, Aix-Marseille University
- 2010-2013: Joint B.A., English Studies & Anthropology, Aix-Marseille University
Thesis
“Life Writing and Lesbian Metaphors in Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century Queer Canadian and American Writing” under the joint supervision of Nicolas P. Boileau (Aix-Marseille University, LERMA) and Lianne Moyes (University of Montreal, CRILCQ)
- “Decolonizing the Media Landscape: in Conversation with Melissa Mollen-Dupuis”, 2026 CÉRIUM Annual Congress, Montréal, Canada, 30 January 2026
- “Telling Queer Life Stories from the Margins with Ivan Coyote”, 48th AFEC Annual Congress, Grenoble, France, 19 June 2025
- “Lesbian Metaphors in Queer North American Contemporary Literature”, Annual Doctoral Conference at the Doctoral School 354 “Languages, Literature, and Arts”, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 June 2024
- “‘A room of our own… in our own community’: The Heritage of the Women’s Building of San Francisco on Nancy’s ‘Maison des Femmes’ Project”, 63rd SAES Annual Congress, Nancy, France, 31 May 2024
- “Queering the Metaphor of Border(s) in Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996)”, 63rd SAES Annual Congress, Nancy, France, 30 May 2024
- “Translation and Gender in Conversation with Arielle Burgdorf”, online event, SAGEF, 22 March 2024
- “Exploring Lesbian Narratives, Bodies and Metaphors in late Twentieth and early Twenty- first century Canadian and American Writing”, ÉREQQ Colloquium, Sherbrooke University, Longueuil, Canada, 27 October 2023
- “Sharing a Collective, Queer Memory with Dorothy Allison”, 62th SAES Annual Congress, Rennes, France, 1 June 2023
- “I don’t believe in being safe or right: Dorothy Allison, a Queer Working-Class Escapee Storyteller”, D2 Seminar, New Frontiers in Life Writing, Aix-en-Provence, France, 5 July 2022
- Julie Agu, “LESBIAN”, CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance (Eds. Bernd Herzogenrath & Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo), Open Humanities Press, 2026. URL: https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/contradictionary/
- Julie Agu, “Queering Transmission: A Study of Self-Narrative in Ivan Coyote’s Work”, Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies [Online], 99 | 2025, Online since 31 December 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/eccs/8892 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/15g1w
- Julie Agu and Maria-Luna Aillaud, “International Conference: “Specters of Feminism in the Work of Joyce Carol Oates””, Transatlantica [Online], 1 | 2024, Online since 01 June 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/22537 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/11x2f
- Julie Agu and Michela Dianetti, “No Man Ever Step In The Same River Twice”, As it Flows (Eds. Lucy Elvis & Michela Dianetti), Children’s writing and short essays, University of Galway, Oct. 2023, 64 p. URL: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/en/publications/28be0420-ec30-4707-9413-f7a13894d1d9
- Julie Agu, “The Quest for the Lesbian Subject and the Writing of Intimacy in Bastard Out of Carolina, Skin, and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison, and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson,” Master’s thesis, Aix-Marseille University, 2021. URL: https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-03988186v1