CANTINELLI Lucas

PhD student

PhD student 

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Research

  • Lovecraftian literature
  • African-American literature
  • Self-narratives, autobiography
  • “Histoire(s) et vies des littératures” research project

Research period

20th century

Thesis

“The Sound of Silence: Conditions and Forms of Self-Writing in Maya Angelou’s, Toni Morrison’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s Non-Fiction” (provisional title)

Thesis funded through a ED 354 doctoral contract (2021-2024) under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Vallas.

Education and professional activity

  • ATER in Aix-Marseille Université (2024-2025)
  • Organizing committee member for the 55th AFEA conference in Aix-Marseille Université (2023-2024)
  • AFEA-SAES PhD grant laureate (2023)
  • PhD student representative at the UFR ALLSH Research Committee (2022-2023)
  • Contractual PhD student in AMU under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Vallas
  • Agrégation in English (2021)
  • Master 2 “Études Culturelles du Monde Anglophone” in Aix-Marseille Université (2019-2020)
  • Teaching Assistant in NUI Galway, Ireland (2018-2019)
  • Master 1 “Aire Culturelle du Monde Anglophone” in Aix-Marseille Université (2017-2018)
  • Preparatory Class in the Humanities (2014-2017)
  • November 2024 : “Incarnation du récit de soi : narration et performance dans les entretiens de Maya Angelou et Toni Morrison” (conference “L’autobiographie dans le paratexte : fiction et non fiction à l’épreuve du paratexte autobiographique”, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)
  • May 2024 : “New tools for a new house: bâtir une autre littérature avec Toni Morrison et Zora Neale Hurston” (AMU, 55th AFEA conference)
  • April 2024 : “The sound of silence: conditions et modalités du récit de soi chez Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou et Toni Morrison” (LERMA seminar, AMU)
  • July 2023 : “The prison of ‘I’: autobiography as contradiction in Toni Morrison’s writings” (“North-American Novelists’ Autobiographical Acts: Nonfictional Disruptions” conference, AMU)
  • May 2023 : “Discursive ‘othering’: logosphonos, and the Afro-American speech” (Université de Bourgogne, 54th AFEA conference)
  • January 2022 : “Récits d’universitaires : les cas de Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou et Zora Neale Hurston” (LERMA seminar, AMU)
  • October 2021 : Guest of the Histoire en Séries podcast for an episode on the series Lovecraft Country
  • January 2019 : “A Gentleman Lost in the 20th Century: H.P. Lovecraft the Outsider” (Night of Ideas, National University of Ireland Galway)
  • “Anemoia and the Vaporwave Phenomenon: the ‘New’ Aesthetic of an Imagined Nostalgia.” June 2024. Imaginaires, n°26. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi26.57
  • “Projet Anglistique: Towards A Genealogy and for an Evolution of English Studies.” July 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1625
  • “An Immersion in AMU’s Scientific Life: Organizing an International Congress with the LERMA.” June 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1621
  • “Toni Morrison and the Place of Afro-American Literature in the American Canon.” March 2020. https://englobe.hypotheses.org/1616
  • Ghost Writing and Writing Ghosts : mémoire(s), identité(s) et langage(s) dans Beloved de Toni Morrison. Littératures. September 2019. ⟨dumas-02876737⟩ (Master’s thesis)